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Last chapter on garden construction and more….
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,…
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Let me introduce you to…
Zuko and Hercules
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The gardenning adventure is going on….
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:
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a juicy news
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!
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Delicious chocolate chip cookies
Yesterday, after my work in the garden, i still had need in cookies.so i went to my favorite cooking blog, parfum de gourmandies and check if Delphine also had a nice recipe for cookies. And of course she has 😉 I made her peanut butter with chocolate chips cookies (recipe) and they are really yummy!
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The spring has arrived in my front yard!
We had a lot of nice weather this week and i was looking forward to gardening this week. But Friday the weather turned around and it was very cold and cloudy. When i woke up this morning i saw a little bit of sun and it was windy.Though i decided to go to the gardening shop and i couldn’t resit to buy some flowers for my garden ( not knowing exactly where i”ll be putting them :S) this is what i bought today: – a peony– a rhubarb– strawberries– a butterfly bush– a rose And i’m very proud of the result: What do you think of the result??
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there is always hope
one of my favorites people at the moment is Nick Vujicic.He is sooo inspiring and i’m going to start ready his biography tonight!
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cheesecake (de)light
A few weeks ago i tried a recipe for a “light” cheesecake and it was surprisingly delicious!! Ingredients: 75 gr margarine 150 gr digestives 2 eggs 250 ml skinny yoghurt 30 g creamcheese (light) 1 spoon flour juice of a ½ citroen 25 g strawberries 30 g sugar 1 Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Grease the edge of the baking sheet in. Crush the biscuits in a food processor finely. Add the butter and blend briefly until the butter running well blended. Spoon the cake mixture in the bottom of the springform pan and press with the back of a spoon well.Turn after baking the temperature back to 150 °…
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New plants in the garden
Tonight i was in the mood to work a bit in the garden. The weather has been very kind the past few days and it’s very nice to be outside after a day at the office. In the backyard i plant 2 vines, given by friends At the frontyard i plant also 2 kiwi plants (also given by friends) kiwi plant 1 kiwiplant 2 it doesn’t look nice yet but hopefully we will be albe to eat some kiwi soon 😉
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My Yogi told me…
Each morning I drink a cup of tea of Yogi tea http://www.yogitea.eu/en/. On the leash of the tea bag there is a quote. Mine today says:“Whatever you do from the hart is absolutely effective” So true….
