I had to make my taxes in 3 countries this year, don’t ask me why/how/WTF, I can’t even say a word “taxes” anymore. I just hope that it’s all good. This forbidden word equals stress in my case. When I stress out, I eat sweets, but not any sweets, I eat super extra good sweets.
Happy Easter everyone! Have a lovely time, get rest, enjoy company of people you love and eat all the goodies! But then, after Easter, if you feel like something healthy for breakfast, red quinoa with raisins and pecans will be perfect.
Today I made it simple. Everything started form a conversation and childhood memories. I don’t know if it was only Poland, but we used to have semolina for a breakfast quite often. My mum used to add a spoon of jam, so it was sweet and I loved it! You can go extreme and add a spiced strawberry sauce or maybe a home made jam if you made some this year.
Yesterday we had such a strong storm over here, that rain created a wall of a water and the lightnings created something like a huge lamp on the sky. I haven’t seen anything like this for a long time. All of that took place at 3 am and I am extremely glad I came back home early yesterday, I would probably have drawned otherwise. Such are the charms of summer, once sun, once rain. There are also bad news - the strawberry season is almost over. I add them to almost everything and it will be heartbreaking to say goodbye. So as long as I can buy them, I’ll eat them by kilograms.
I know that there’s a season for strawberries and you’ve already seen like 100s of recipes. But check out this one. I’ve found it on this My New Roots blog and I felt in love with it. I love stravberries but usually have them with sugar. This one are spicy, so spicy and delicious. I ate them with my morning poridge, and then finished it with a spoon. I ate everything I made. It was that good.
When sun is shining, temprerature hits 18*C you’ll need a strenght of 100 horses to keep me at home. It looks like I’m not alone in it — it was almost a miracle I managed to find a spot for my picknic blanket in the huge Westerpark. Looks like suddenly everyone else is in the same mode.
Poffertjes are a traditional Duch fluffy pancakes that are light, spongey and delicious. It took me a while to buy a special pan to fry them, but the finall effect was more than good. I must say that I’m greatful for Ania to be around for a weekend, otherwise I’d eat them all by myself.
During the last months I’ve realized what it means to have guests in your place very often. You eat and eat and eat and you never stop. Everyone wants to introduce you to something delicious or take you to a small sweet restaurant. What’s an effect? 2 extra kilograms!
But I can’t complain. I had a great time during that summer period. Thank you all my friends and family. There’s just two of us since this afternoon and it feels strange not to have people around our small couch. Also, we had a goodbye breakfast with my mother, that was rally delicious but a bit sad. I hope someone will visit us soon!
I’ve been trying to make brioche for breakfast for the past two days. It didn’t work out and I have no idea why! I did everything right, put the dough to the fridge for a night, woke up at 5 am to prepare it to grow and…nothing. I will try again soon, but mean time I had to do something fast to feed me and people in my home. Today is a bit more special, because it’s my 5th wedding anniversary :)
