DARK LOVE

When I opened a little door in the kitchen, I saw a lonely pack of brownie mix standing there a little dusted and forgotten...

So I decided to crack it open, I added some stuff, separated the brown creamy mass into little portions, gave them a warm 40 minutes, some time to cool down and, pulled of the green starry paper and..

Had a bite.

Wanna do the same?! Just get any sort of brownie mix and instead of a larger baking tray you put them into cupcake tins or paper ones and SHARE!

LOTS OF LOVE

HOTSPOT: STRANDLODGE

Today, Hemelvaart, a festive day in Holland and for SOME reason I don't know, people decided to go biking early in the morning a LONG, long time ago. And not early as in 08.00. No. Early as in 06.00. Luckily my mom(and family) decided to go around 11.00 which I didn't mind at all!

After 45 kilometers(really? yes, really!) of mountainbiking we went out for dinner at the Strandlodge! It isn't only a GREAT restaurant, but also a monument in Winterswijk, as it used to be a outside swimming pool that was renovated, after 10 years it opened as a swimming pool again and they also build a restaurant with it..

Click on read more for more information and the website!

 

VOGUE NETHERLANDS

This is it, the day before yesterday I finally found the time to pick up my very own VOGUE Netherlands Collectors Edition that my friend Orsi purchased for me last week. I actually need it now, since 4 of my wisdom teeth were pulled out yesterday, and I'm not able to do anything but blogging and taking pictures of everything but myself. Well, I did actually took a picture of myself but it's NOT showable AT ALL. Click on 'Read more' to see some more pictures..

Diary!

Remember my  newyears solutions? I wanted to show you an outfit at least twice a week, and you might have seen that that isn't working yet.. caused by a few things..BUT, I'm wearing a photo-worthy outfit pretty much everyday so why do I take no pictures?! Well. NO EXCUSE. I actually use a camera every day, which is my phone (nokia, old one) camera. Almost every picture is taken by that one and it's doing pretty well!

Diary: Busy times..

Yes, again! Last week I had my last exams and had to work a lot as well. In Holland there is Restaurant week twice a year. You can eat 3 courses in a lot of restaurants over here for only 27,50, and I was working 5 days. VE-RY busy! The rest of the week, these things came to cross me on my way..

So, the week started with a great breakfast. My dad saved a dessert he made on Sunday. Sugarbread with raspberries, I guess it's a Dutch delight. Delicious to dip in a milk, cinnamon-egg mix and than bake in real butter! Top off with a little bit of sugar..

In the evening I was still working for school and my dad made this little Old Amsterdam and meat platter ... and when I was working for school, under the joy of Qmusic, I heard about the Beats by Dre competition and attended it.. guess what.. I WON!

I was travelling by train a lot and ate these Bits by Dorito's at the station and great memories came back to me. Me and my friends at high school were eating these EVERY single break for 0,35 cents. The bluekberry muffin was also caught by the travelling and to treat myself.. because friday, I finished my last exam!

My brother went on holiday to Austria last week and because he came back(with a lot of other family) we went out for dinner with everybody and I had a BIG portion of chocolat mousse, I dumped the whipped cream in my mum and aunt their coffees to make it a little less bad for my diet(which ofcourse isn't helping at all), mentally.

And than, last but CERTANLY not least, Marni for H&M. After 8 hours in the viritual waiting row I got trough and ordered the shoes, THE SHOES.  Quite worth the wait and I hope them to arrive home this week!

De week begon met een heerlijk ontbijtje. M'n vader had een dessert bewaard dat hij de dag daarvoor maarkte. Suikerbrood met frambozen. Super lekker als wentelteefje, mix melk, kaneel en ei, haal een plakje suikerbrood door het mengsel en bak het in roomboter..afmaken met een beetje suiker...

's Avonds was ik nog voor school bezig en maakte mijn vader dit bordje met Old Amsterdam en een worstje..en toen ik bezig was met school, onder het genot van Qmusic, hoorde ik van de Beats by Dre actie, ik deed mee.. EN WON! 

Vorige week was ik veel met de trein onderweg en at Bits by Dorito's op het station, het bracht superleuke herinneringen naar boven, op de middelbare school aten we deze elke pauze voor maar 0,35 cent! Oh, de blueberry muffin is ook veroorzaakt door het reizen met de trein..en ik kocht hem ook om mezelf te belonen want alles voor school was ingeleverd!

M'n broertje was op skivakantie naar Oostenrijk en om te vieren dat hij terug was(met natuurlijk de rest van de familie) gingen we uiteten! Ik nam een supergrote portie chocomouse, waarvan ik de slagroom bij m'n moeder en tante in de koffie loste om het geheel iets legaler te maken voor mijn dieet(wat NATUURLIJK geen enkele zin heeft), mentaal.

En dan, als laatste maar zeker niet het minste, Marni voor H&M. Na 8 uur in de virituele wachtrij kwam ik erdoor en bestelde ik DE schoenen! Het wachten waard en ik hoop dat ze deze week thuis arriveren!

LOTS OF LOVE!

Keep calm and..

have some food?!

Last monday my exams started and it is SO much more work than I thought! Sometimes I had to treat myself with a little(LOT) of chocolat or a nice sandwich..wanna see?!

 My dad is leaving his job soon, so there was a 'goodbye party' at our place and dad made some amazing treats. Can you see he's a chef?!

 When it was REALLY cold, my mum wanted to drop me of at the train station, but we were 15 minutes early. Luckily McDonalds is RIGHT next to the station, so we had a lovely coffee!

 After a loooong day at school I treated myself with a nice bath, and yes, those are chocolat eggs, a bit early, but the biggest guilty pleasure EVER! And than..the books, LOVE LETTERS I and LOVE LETTERS II, with love letters written by Napoleon and other famous men and woman!

 Bad photo, but anyway, this is what EVERY weekday night looks for me the next 4 weeks, how about my computer mouse?!

 Floor, my classmate, and me, were at school on a Saturday last week, in our break we went to Bagels&Beans and both had a sandwich with goats cheese, LOVE!

And on our way back they were spreading the new pringles at stations and in town centres, lucky day?!

My excuses for the lack of posting, tomorrow I'll try to take some outfit photo's!

Lots of love!



Last week..

This week, I was travelling a LOT for school, my exams start next Monday, and to get the last points, all my classmates and me were doing some workshops!

1. I organised a workshop with Daals Traiteurs/Daals Keurslager(Catering company) and at the end of the workshop, we got a little goodie bag with a little cook book, a very Dutch sausage: 'Rookworst' and a 'Boerke' which is a dried sausage with a special ingredient(one of my all time favourites!)

2. Today I went to school for nothing, the teacher I needed, wasn't at school, so I decided to buy myself a nice cup of tea(needed, it was -10 C.) to survive the trip home.

3. Working for cán be nice, we were treated with these sandwiches!

4. Very bad! I'm trying to watch my weight a bit, but I couldn't resist this fresh waffle..

5./6. My classmate bob also organised a workshop with wineseller Kroese in Epe.

Food diary!

After a week with a LOT of sleep, sport and rain, I also tried to eat healthier, which I did from the 2nd of January.. let's see what was on the menu!

1. This was my breakfast 3 times this week, it's something that fills very good and after this, I'm not hungry untill (late)lunch.

2. Well, what I said at 1 is not totally true, after 1,5 hour of fitness, I'm mostly craving for something to eat and I decided to bring something healthy with me!

3. This was the 30th of December, my friend and I went to Doetinchem where she wanted to buy an outfit for NYE and ofcourse, we had to eat something(I guess we danced enough to burn this all)

4. My friend Linda came by to have a drink

5. 1st of January, the Dutch tradition is to eat 'Oliebollen' at the first(and second and third...) of January, so we did!

6. A healthy milky drink with strawberry/cherry flavour to start the day, I like!

So, did you eat a lot during the change of years?! And do you have any resolutions that involve food for 2012? Tell me!

Lots of love!