Slept until past ten. Made breakfast burritos with fried potatoes and onion, scrambled egg, chorizo, spicy ketchup and avocado. Ate them together with banana and blueberry milkshakes. Sat of the sofa reading blogs, writing emails. Made banana and pecan tea loaf which our church group gobbled up tonight. It was yummy and I can’t find…
I love our flat. It is big and light and we’ve been able to furnish it with some amazing furniture due to the incredibly generosity of our friends and family when we got married. I know that if we lived in any other big capital city (London, Paris, Tokyo, DC…) we would probably be living…
So this was quite the weekend for baking. Saturday morning I made banana cake from my mum’s trusty recipe. Sunday morning I made fastelavnsbolle. And Sunday evening after church I made this cauliflower and caramelised onion tart. It’s from Deb’s recipe on Smitten Kitchen and I’ve made it once before, for a girl’s night in…
It is a stunningly beautiful day today. And I have enjoyed it from inside the whole day. I chose to spend the hour or so that the sun comes directly into our living area lying directly in it, only moving occasionally to ensure I stayed within the sunlight as it moved across the room 🙂 It was wonderfully…
Yesterday the STIB (metro, bus, tram company) went on strike for the second time in two weeks. I’m not sure what they were striking about this time because not speaking good (read: any) French or Flemish I never read the local news. I was late to work in the morning anyway because I needed to…
It’s the beginning of another month already which is kinda astonishing to me. I’m still getting used to writing 2011 on everything. A woman I adore pointed out today the (obvious) fact that March is also a verb (May is too but it’s a weak indecisive verb so it doesn’t count). Somehow it feels very…