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Thursday, September 23, 2010

I ♥ colorful salad :)

I love to eat salad because it's easy haha...and I love to mix the ingredients, it's a fresh healthy food. And with salads, I can make it colorful too (with it's own natural color of course), it makes me happy to eat it :)

Here are some of the salads I've made. I took some pics so I can share it with you, and of course the recipe too :)

Ingredients :
(the amount it depends on your taste)

-You can use fresh lettuce and mix it with mizuna (japanese greens), or you can mix red leaf lettuce with oakleaf leattuce. But my faves at the moment are fresh romains and arugula.

-Fresh strawberries

-Fresh peeled mandarin orange

-Boiled chicken (and chop the chicken)

-Some parmigiano cheese

-And strawberry dressing.

How to make the strawberry dressing (and the amount it depends on your taste):

6-8 large strawberries
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar or freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup water
1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon honey

Just mix all of them and voila....you will have a nyummy colorful salad :)

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And here is another simple salad recipe that I got from Pepenero restaurant. I made it last week, it's one of my fave salad at the moment :)

Ingredients :

(the amount it depends on your taste)

-Fresh rucola

-Fresh pears (cut into slices)
-Some pine nuts

-Italian pecorino cheese or you can use parmigiano (cut into slices)

-And honey dressing

How to make the honey dressing (and the amount it depends on your taste):

-Honey

-Red wine vinegar

Try it...you'll love it :)

Monday, September 20, 2010

♥ Haila's, Mayuko's & Adriana's

First day of school...Haila, Mayuko and Adriana gave me this cute drawing ♥

"This is miss Kyra..." Haila said :)

"Miss Kyra..." by Mayuko :)

By Adriana :)

Simple things that kids can do to make you happy (hug Haila, Mayuko and Adriana) :)

Friday, September 17, 2010

i ♥ love letters

This one is my fave ♥

These are some of the love letters from Bill Saphiro's Others People's Love Letter. Here's the link and this too.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

♥ La Blogotheque's

Beautiful artist...Beautiful singer...Beautiful band...Beautiful songs...Beautiful videos...Beautiful colors...

The Take Away Shows :)

With Chryde as the founder of the website La Blogothèque and Vincent Moon as the video maker (he's an indipendent filmmaker)...voila...here comes the so called Take-Away Shows (or the French title Les Concerts à Emporter)...existed since April 2006. Check the web La Blogotheque and this one too .

I always love to watch The Take Away Shows videos...these are some of them.

The video of Phoenix, Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes was directed by Vincent Moon. I love the way Vincent Moon uses warm and contrast colors with only white text as the title in his videos. Check Vincent Moon's web.

The video of Tenniscoats and Jamie Lidell's was directed by Colin Solal Cardo...love the colors too, check Colin Solal Cardo's web.

Here's La Blogoteque's channel on Youtube.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Oatmeal raisin cinammon cookies :)

I love cookies that's a bit chewy and i love cinammon :) I just made this...wanna try this simple recipe?

Ingredients:

3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tbsp vanila extract
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp ground cinammon (depends on your taste)
1 tsp salt

2 3/4 cup oats
1 cup raisin

Directions:
1. Heat the oven to 200 degrees celcius.
2. Cream together the butter (softened), sugar and brown sugar.
3. Beat the egss till fluffy.
4. Gradually, beat all the ingredients (until salt) into the butter mixture.
5. Stop, then stir it while you put oats and raisin into the mixture.
6. Drop by spoonfull, put it in a pan and put into the oven for 8 - 10 minutes (or a bit more).