GARDEN DAY

Charming little video about gardening and growing vegetables told from a kids perspective, enjoy!

HOMEGROWN VEGGIES & FRUIT

It's time for a celebration because the first homegrown veggies have reached my kitchen! Yeaaaaaah! It's a miracle that in just a few months time my vegetable garden already gives these beautiful and tasty products!.. i'm pleasantly surprised.

Here's what i made with products 'straight from the garden' so far: 1)Beetroot summer salad, 2)beetroot & apple juice, 3)beetroot risotto, 4)stir fried fennel, 5)braised endive with garlic, sourcream and pine nuts, 6)eatable flower salad, 7)mint & lemon balm tea, 8) a lovely salsa verde with mint and parsley, and 9)apple rubarb crumble...i say: not bad for a start!

This morning i picked 2 big bowls of strawberries for my yogurt smoothies and early mornin' toast :-) MMMMMMM delicious!

BEEP EGG

In my home you'll find more than one blue-white piece of ceramic, in tableware, vases etc. I started collecting them years back because i like ceramics and the history of how the Dutch people started to make Delft Blue ceramics and became famous for it (1650-1750). The real credits of course are to be given to the Chinese.

Now, this blue-white egg alarm has joined my kitchen lately because it has a cute 'old houses print' and because i dislike the tone of a regular alarm clock one uses to boil an egg. Can you imagine this egg plays 3 traditional Dutch songs!

Soft egg:'in Holland staat een huis'

Medium egg: 'twee emmertjes water halen' 

Hard boiled egg: 'our national anthem Wilhelmus'

SUGARED FLOWERS ON CHOCOLATES

Did you know you can actually order your eatable sugared flowers from the internet? You sure can! from Corwen, Denbighshire, North Wales, UK. That's a mouth full! Go quickly to their site 'Eat my flowers' and make yourself a pile of these lovely chocolates.

LA DOLCE VITA

Life is sweet! especially with these two beautiful presents i received yesterday from a dear friend!

'La dolce vita' celebrates life with glamourous recipes.

'Ciao bella' is a book from Tessa Kiros about Italian food from the region of Venice.

Last year i received another one of her very nice books called:'De smaak van mijn herinnering'. 

I do love one of her quotes where she says:" I wish that everyone would go back to old-fashioned ways: growing their own fruit and vegetables, eating with their families and eating less convenience food, also eat seasonally like for example in Tuscany". I think she's got a point!

MOTTO

This shall be my motto for working in my vegetable garden!

great poster made by Studio on fire

BIRTHDAY SWEETS

VEGETARIAN LOOK

Fashion and vegetables are coming together in these 50's inspired dresses from Dolce & Gabbana.

'RECYCLING CHICKEN'

I wish i could have fresh eggs from my very own chickens every day. But since i do not have the opportunity to keep them i mostly buy bio eggs in the supermarket. I do tend to get lost when i must make a choice between all the different boxes of BIO produced eggs. 

Maybe if one of the boxes would show this bright baby on top i would be less confused...I could SWING her right into my shoppingbag!

made from plastic shopping bags-wow imports

30th OF APRIL

It turned out to be a lovely day yesterday celebrating the Queen's birthday! Who would have thought it would be a brilliant summer's day after quite a bit of rain? Back to work now!  

and the sun will shine on you!

HAPPY QUEENSDAY 2012!

CAN'T WAIT....

The Homemade 'ZOMER' book from Yvette van Boven will be out soon! It's based on one of my favorite holiday regions in France, Bretagne! Can't wait....

vive la France!

IT'S SO EASY!

as seen on: 17 apart blog! go check it out!

FLOWER SWEETS

If you consider that food can make happy in more ways than just by eating it..

Design by Katja Gruyters

FURNITURE CAKE

Every year i look forward to go to Salone Internazionale dei mobili in Milano. This year i was caught up with things but i did hear about an interesting Portugal & Japan originated designer couple. Rui Pereira and Ryosuke Fukusada. They displayed their love for productdesign and food together in what they call in Italian 'SAPORE DEI MOBILI'. So unfortunately i missed eating my first chair!!  

PAPER SCHRIMP

Oh so pretty!

Daniel Carlsten

UNUSUAL GREY!

I love grey and i love unusual things! There you go............!

By using black sesame paste you get grey icecream. Lovely recipe made with coconut milk by Vanessa Rees. There's a lot we can do with the icecream..but did you ever think of making your own cones? This one is a red-pepper and mango cone...mmmmmmmmmmm delicious!

FROM POLAND WITH LOVE

This week i was wondering about a nice present for a newborn baby. I'm an absolute fan of useful presents when it comes to kids as they usually get lost among piles of toys before you know it..

The gods must have overheard my brain cracking 'cause i suddenly found these....EVERYTHING will be fun to eat from these cleverly illustrated plates!

The designer is from Poland! His name is Boguslaw Sliwinski

TEABAGS FOR TEA

By Sandra Avital

EASTER PICNIC

Photo's from La tartine gourmande