We Are Moving!
>> October 12, 2016
Hi guys! I am moving and starting a new food and lifestyle journal. If you are still around and still have patience for my ever fluctuating interests and mood in posting, please follow me :).
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Life is yummy.
Hi guys! I am moving and starting a new food and lifestyle journal. If you are still around and still have patience for my ever fluctuating interests and mood in posting, please follow me :).
Eating veggies to your heart's content will not make you feel guilty a tiny bit. So I stuffed my face with this "chop-whatever-in-my-fridge-salad".
I just juiced all day, and as always, I find myself hungry in the evening. So I stuffed my face with this salad to ease my hunger. And it did fill me up.
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It's been 4 1/2 months now since I moved here and believe it or not, I still feel quite unsettled. The house is basically complete with everything we need. But I feel like it still lack some homey touch to it. I've been spending quite some time moving furnishings around, placing decorative items on surfaces, experimenting what would look good in the space we have. It's challenging to decorate - aside from the fact that I don't particularly excel in interior design (other way of saying I have poor taste in that aspect) - this place is way bigger than my condo back in Makati - so much space I feel like I must fill in.
I finally had a chance to hang the photos I printed on canvas on December. I actually thought it's big enough for my plans on our wall, but apparently it still feels small. Nevertheless, I don't think I can afford at the moment to print this in a real big blow up canvas all over again as I find printing services here (good ones) quite pricey! So I guess at this point, I have to live with what I have.
It does look small. I'm sure it would look way better if it was bigger, but too late for that. |
I've also found myself in love with succulents and cacti. I want to fill our house with it. |
And of course, 2 out of 6 of my lovies - Lottie and Pansie. |
Dedicated to my friend JD.
One of JD's food favorites is paella. I remember him always rave about this dish, saying I should try cook it myself. I'm not crazy about paella partly because I may not have tried a really good one in my life time. I remember I promised him I'll veganize paella, but I didn't have a benchmark then, so it never happened.
A few weeks ago on a friend's birthday party, I was presented with an opportunity to try it again, this time cooked by a spaniard from where else? Valencia! The best part? It's vegan! I may sound a bit exaggerating, but it's the best paella ever. Just thinking about it makes me feel like I can still taste it.
Inspired by this dish, and with JD in mind, I finally made my very first home made vegan paella.
White Beach, Puerto Galera, 2013 |
Boracay, 2006 |
Josephine's, Tagaytay |
Bag of Beans, Tagaytay City |
Impromptu Christmas Party, 2010 |
We regularly pass by Fräulein Büker shop every time we do our grocery, although I have never seen it open because we almost always do our grocery at night. One thing that I find so remarkable is their shop's logo - a silhouette of a maiden and a cat. Yes, a cat! Enough to turn my curiosity switch on. And today, we finally get to visit. It's a friend's birthday and we wanted to bring something sweet to the party. Fortunately, they also offer vegan pastries - perfect for Mark.
Fräulein Büker is apparently not only a bake shop, but also a baking school. I met the fräulein and gave me an overview of the courses she offers. Cupcake decoration is one of their most popular course. She speaks English too, so if you are an expat living within the area and interested to learn baking, this is a great place to be.
The bake shop's facade. So cute! |
Some pastries and cookies. |
Chocolate slice I randomly picked because it just looks so yummy and tasty. |
Fine, this is what really sold the goodies to me :P. |
No, I didn't forget to blog. It's just that it seems the 365 project is becoming more personal than what I hope it to be. Not everything interesting to me may be interesting to you and I don' t want to bore people to death with what's happening (big or small) in my life. So I'm moving my 365 days of Lekker project in a personal journal, and will continue to just share useful stuff in this blog. I've been moving away from the original purpose of this blog and I want to make it concentrated on cooking, house keeping and matters related to that - but oh boy, I am easily distracted. So I will do my best to manage my interest.
ciao for now!
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