Hi there! I’m back, it’s been a few weeks since i wrote something but it was kind of busy here 😉Tonight i have made a couscous salad from the Light Koken magazine of July. It’s a magazine available in Holland, with only healthy and skinny recipes which fit all kind of diet (low carb, diabetic…). I like it very much, they write about food but also mindfulness, sport, different diets available and so. So for tonight i choose to make the Couscous salad with smoked chicken. The original recipe is for 4 persons but as i’m alone tonight I only used the half (i can take the leftovers tomorrow for…

Hi there! As i told last week i wanted to use my free wednesday as a cooking wednesday.I was already think about it all week: what should i do?? So far i only placed baking things so i decided to make a dish this week.But then, what kind of dish? I bought the Jamie Oliver magazine monday and there i found it!!A potatoe fennel casserole! i love fennel, it’s fresh and i like the anise taste of it. We are lucky to have our own dutch version of the Jamie Oliver magazine. I love Jamie Oliver, he’s cute, british, can cook and give you the idea that’s easy 🙂 I…

Delphine from Parfums de Gourmandises has a theme for the month of May: Cupcakes May.She has already made 3 differents cupcakes for this month and i was charmed by her Raspberries cupcake. Here are mines: I’ve made them for Hubby and i but also for my friend who’s jut became a mother. She liked my cupcake 😉 As i will have some free times coming weeks i hope to post more often on what i’ve baked, cooked, sewed and gardenned 😉 See you very soon!!

Our backyard is ready!!! Last weekend i’ve planted all my tomatoes, cucumber, eggplants, letuce and strawberries in my veggie garden.Monday Hubby and I also placed the bright white gravel which is the finishing touch of our backyard. We are happy!! Last month Hubby and i went to Italy for the first for the holidays and we had found a nice  (as it seemed) hotel in Toscany. Our destination was Montecani Terme, north of Toscany  and later on we would drive southern to Chiancachino. The nature there was beautiful as it was green and all was blooming  But we had to acclimate to different way of living, like lousy breakfast in the hotel,…

H. and I decided to let someone do the big job in the garden and we also changed our ideas about the style we wanted. No, the veggie garden has not disappeared!! but the pond becomes a long term project. That’s how our backyard looks like after one day of labor:

Last week i ordered a juicer! I read a lot about how healthy it is for you to drink fresh juice of fruit but also from vegetable. I decided to give it a try as it’s very difficult sometimes to eat enough vegetables so this is how it looks like: Nice isn’t it?? so yesterday, after the gardening, after the  cookies, i made some fresh juice. 3 stalks selerygrapes2 pears, doyenne du comice And the result is…..Green!