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Barley Stew with Smoked Garlic, Mushrooms & Lemon Thyme

Warming up, thick, creamy and very fragrant soup for cold and rainy days.

Pearl Barley Spinach Salad with Garlic and Chilli Flakes

Healthy, low calorie salad recipe with refreshing flavour of lemon.

Berry Vanilla Chocolate Picnic Cake with Smarties

[Decoration inspired by Smarties Cake from Crème et Cannelle] INGREDIENTS for the berry vanilla cake 2½ cups plain flour 1 tbs baking powder 3-4 eggs (I used 4 small ones) ½ cup of milk 1 cup golden caster sugar 2 tbs vanilla sugar 125g / ½ bar of unsalted butter 400g tin of fresh berries […]

Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes – Game Review

I have to admit, I never really got the Lego franchise. I mean who wants to play a dumbed down version of any game never mind one where the characters can’t speak? Fortunately there is speech in Lego Batman 2 (yay) but it’s not about the speech or not, it’s about how playable the game […]

Pink Beetroot & Green Avocado Picnic Dips

Pink and green, low in calories picnic dips that looks great and are healthy as well.

Summer Kids’ Nail Art – Cherry Fingers & Watermelon Toes

Summer nail art ideas for kids – cherries and watermelon slices.

Bulgur Wheat Tabbouleh

INGREDIENTS 250g bulgur wheat / 1¼ cup 5 cups / 1¼ litre of boiling water 3 vegetable cubes (10g each) medium red onion (diced finely) 1 red & 1 yellow or orange bell pepper (diced finely) 3 garlic cloves (chopped or squeezed) handful of chopped mint / 15g handful of chopped flat leaf parsley /15g […]

Marissa’s Clay Pony

I don’t think I got a chance yet to share with you image for the clay horse my daughter made at school last year, when she was still 5 years old (!) I was quite amazed with the details she created. It has been later painted, glazed and fired by the teacher – thank you […]

Black Forest Cake – German Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte

Black Forest Cake – German chocolate cake with cherry liquor and fresh cherries.

Coffee & Vanilla Ice Cream

INGREDIENTS 6 scoops of vanilla ice cream ½ tsp instant coffee or more (it depends on coffee) 2 tsp of sugar 2 tbs hot water METHOD Dissolve coffee and sugar in a little bit of hot water. Pour over your favourite vanilla ice cream and enjoy. Make 2 portions. NOTES For kids replace coffee sauce with […]

Spicy Tuna, Corn & Red Kidney Bean Jacket Potatoes

Baked potatoes filled with spicy tuna, great also as sandwich filler or pasta topping.

Photo Quiz # 9 – Prize: BlackBerry “Supergirl” Case (CLOSED)

Photo quiz – “Supergirl” BlackBerry 9900 hard shell case to be won.

Cooling Apple, Melon and Cherry Tomato Salad with Mint & Lemon Dressing

INGREDIENTS ½ large melon – I used Piel de Sapo (scooped out) 3 apples (cubed) 2 handfuls of cherry tomatoes / about 250g (halved) for the dressing 2 tbs olive oil 2 tbs lemon juice 1 tbs golden caster sugar handful of fresh mint leaves (chopped) EQUIPMENT melon baller apple slicer/cutter METHOD Combine all ingredients […]

NeverSeconds Blog on School Lunches by 9 Year Old Martha

Martha Payne “VEG” from Argyll in Scotland has been taking photos and rating her school lunches on her NeverSeconds blog since April this year. Martha gave each meal detailed ratings including: food-o-meter, mouthfuls, courses, health rating, price & pieces of hair in her meal. Together with help of her Dad Dave they brought to her website […]

Hi-Tec Lady Waterproof Auckland Trail Shoes – Review

Couple of days ago my new Hi-Tec Lady Waterproof Auckland Trail shoes from SportsShoes.com has arrived…They have quite a huge selection of running shoes from well known brands at great discounted rates too. From all the available shoes I chosen this model because of their brownish (taupe/winter plum) colour and waterproof properties… in this order. I […]

Recycled T-Shirt Crochet Rug – Spring Cleaning Idea

How to turn old t-shirts into beautiful crochet rugs – crochet pattern.

DIY Truffula Fluffy Pom-Pom Trees from The Lorax

After watching very much loved “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” movie last weekend, we could not resist making some themed crafts. And with the pot of grass already on hand (leftover from Easter) we had no other choice but to make truffula trees :) MATERIALS wooden skewers fluffy pom-poms in candy pinks and yellows flower pot […]

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax – Movie Review

Last weekend my 6 year old daughter and I we went to Odeon West End to see “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” movie preview. The Lorax is a comedy for children, adaptation of one of Dr. Seuss books written back in 1971 and now animated by Universal Pictures & Illumination Entertainment under direction of Chris Renaud. […]

Pancake Doodles & Alphabet Pancakes with Raspberry Syrup

I made those pancakes for my older daughter who is not feeling well today and needed some cheering up. INGREDIENTS for the pancakes 1½ cups self raising flour or ½ cups plain flour + ½ tbs baking powder 2 cups milk ¼ cup oil (I used hazelnut oil) 2 eggs for the topping fruity syrup – I used […]

DIY Sponge on a Rope with Beads and Ribbon

Easy low cost sponge on a rope idea.

Warner Bros. Welcomes Bloggers in London

Some time last week I attended Warner Bros. Welcomes Bloggers event in Central London where we were introduced to the newest technologies in sharing, storing and watching movies and at the same time we got a chance to meet up with other bloggers. I do spend quite a lot of time on the computer and […]

“The Goblin and The Girl” by Neil Irani – Children’s Book Review

“The Goblin and the Girl” written by Neil Irani, is another great book we have received to review from Maverick, available also through my Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com stores. First, a little bit about the author – Neil who writes stories for children for over 8 years now. His previous publications were mainly written for boys […]

Handmade Mulberry Paper Stamped Party Invitations / Cards

MATERIALS square pieces of handmade Mulberry paper pieces of ribbon tied into bows square blank cards with envelopes glitter glues, we used orange and pink colourful ink (we used purple bingo dabber instead) marker – same colour as the ink craft glue EQUIPMENT large stamp for the front of the card little stamp for the back […]

“Sparkle’s Song” by Samantha Hale – Children’s Book Review

Over the Easter holidays we were enjoying reading some new children’s books from Maverick, one of them was “Sparkle’s Songs” by Samantha Hale, available through their website or from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com stores. “Sparkle’s Song” has adorable, sparkly cover and very original, awesome, textured like old cracked oil paint illustrations by Mariana Ruiz Johnson. The […]

Happy Spring 2012

Happy Spring wishes from us…

Easter Wholemeal Cat Bunnies

When couple of days I making this Wholemeal Plaited Bread I used ⅓ of the dough to make 12 bunny shaped rolls that actually turned out looking more like cats… but we still enjoyed them a lot so I decided to share the images with you.

Crochet Lining for Easter Basket

Quick and easy crochet Easter basket lining tutorial, also great for picnics.

Tissue Paper Gift Wrapping Ideas

Gift wrapped in tissue paper, topped with tissue lotus flower, paper leaves and chocolate lady bugs – all connected with double side tape. Another gift topped with tissue lotus flowers and skeleton leaf. Step by step tutorial how to make those lotus flower in upcoming post. And monochromatic golden tissue paper used to wrap […]

DIY Mulberry Tissue Paper Moody Bedroom Lampshade – Ikea Hack

DIY moody lampshade for adults bedroom – easy and low cost décor idea.

Girl’s Room Butterfly Paper Lamp Shade – Ikea Hack

Paper lampshade decorated with butterflies – quick and easy DIY décor idea for girls’ room.

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