tea time

Tomorrow I'm doing a belate birthday party and organizing a high tea for my family.
On the menu will be:
- scones with clotted cream and jam
- lemon cakes
- pear, hazelnut and dark chocolate cakes
- dark chocolate and espresso cupcakes
- red onion, goats cheese and thyme tartlets
- tunasalad sandwiches
- BLT sandwiches
- salmon and broccoli quiches

pictures and recepies will follow soon :)

Most wanted outfit of the moment!!!

cheer movies

Haha, I know it is too cheesy, but I absolutely have thing for cheerleading movies...

At the moment I'm watching Bring it on, for probably the 6th time.

I don't now why I like them so much, i just have had this facination for years...maybe because Holland doesn't have any chearleaders? I even went to an American high school to get the whole experience and to see some real cheers...secretly I just wanted to become one :p

Unfortunately I ended up at some bad small town private school in SC whithout a cheerleadingteam, so I still have to dream about being a fantastic cheerleader and watch the bring it on movies....

Is there anybody else who shares this weird facination with me??

Make your souls blossom Etsy shop

I'haven't been posting for quite a while because I've been very busy with my schoolwork, searching for an apartment (found one :D) and making goods for my own Etsy shop.

I have put a lot of time, experimenting, love and care in creating them and I hope this will show.

Currently I only have notebooks in my shop, but I am planning to add some other items as well.

These are some of my favorite items that you can find in the shop:

muffins

These arejust some pictures of the fabulous Amsterdam-based bakery 'Bakken met Passie' (Baking with Passion), which is located at the Albert Cuypstraat. They have won the award for best bread bakery in the world, and their cakes aren't bad either.... My mum and I sat down for a nice cup of fresh mint tea and a muffin, who where absolutely yummie :)

lemon muffin, white chocolate and raspberry muffin, apple and blackberry muffin

Fetta cheese, pesto and sunblushed tomato muffin

Dark chocolate and caramel muffin

Sunday morning

Hope that everyone is enjoying their weekends so far.....
I certainly do: yesterday my mom and I went food shopping in Amsterdam and it was absolutely yummie. I will post some pics later.

Now i'm going to enjoy my breakfast....

Henry was all ready for halloween with his new wig, what do you think about his new look?

carrot, apple and almond cake

This week I've been experimenting a lot with all different kind of recepies and this is one of them.

Ingredients:
200 gram whole wheat spelt flower
200 gram spelt flower
1,5 tbs bakingpowder
2 organic eggs
150 grams of runny honey
50 gram light brown granulated sugar
pinch of salt
175 ml apple juice
1 big cooking apple
3 medium carrots
125 gram ground almonds
2 tsp mixed spices
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger

Preparation:
Pre-heat the oven at 175oC and grease a baking tin.
Pour the flower, bakingpowder, spices, salt and sugar in a bowl and mix it al together.
Crack the eggs in another bowl and mix them with the apple juice and honey, until the honey is dissolved. Peel the apple and carrots and grate them roughly. Now you can mix all the ingredients together until you get a smooth mixture. Pour the mixture in the tin and bake it for 40-50 minutes in the oven, until it's set and golden brown. After that remove it from the oven and let it cool for about 5 minutes before turning it out on to a wire rack. Then let it get completely cold before serving.

Hope you enjoy it!