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Apple and Almond tart
pastry 50 gr of margarine * 50 gr of sugar 150 gr of flour 1 tablespoon ground almonds Filling 50 gr of margarine 100 gr of sugar 100 gr of ground almonds 1 egg 1 large apple peeled and sliced To make the pastry mix all the ingredients together in the foodprocesor until it is… Read more »
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Sotto terra il treno
The village where Joshua goes to school, is a village expanding build along two busy roads and with a station. Houses where affordable or at least 6 years ago they where. Now they are expensive. People started living there because of the busy roads and the station it is well connected to Rome. But when people live… Read more »
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Making a birthday cake
With Easter it was also the birthday of my mother in law. And as I like to cook and am not to bad in making cakes I thought I make her a birthday cake. First i baked 2 heart shape cakes, The recipe i used for that is 225 g flour 2 tsp baking powder 225… Read more »
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Apple pie
Ingredients 250 gr flour 200 gr margarine cut in little pieces * 8 teaspoons of icewater pinch of salt 1 1/2 kilo apples 80 gr sugar 2 teaspoons of lemon juice 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon of ground ginger 1 egg yolk baking tin of 30 cm Mix the flour,salt and margarine then… Read more »
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Torta rustica (ie my spinanch and chicory pie)
1 tablespoon of olive oil 1 shallot chopped pinch of chili pepper 150 gram frozen spinach 150 gram frozen chicory 3 eggs 250 ricotta (I used the one from sheep milk) salt and pepper to taste ready made puff pastry (I know i am lazy) baking tin Defrost the spinach and chicory.(I usually defrost it for… Read more »
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Bad weather
My mother in law for the first time offered to babysit on my husband birthday. So for the first time in 2 years we could go out together. As the weather gods might have heard that because all hell broke loose, there was a thunderstorm and if it was not raining it was hailing. We went… Read more »
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Self acceptance
The other day I saw a Dutch documentary called Beperkt houdbaar (short expiry). Which talks about the beauty industry and how women are being talked into looking like something that is impossible the natural way. How the models in magazines are being photoshoped in such an extend that nothing is the way it really is, and… Read more »
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Dutch literature
When I was in school like most people I had to read Dutch literature, and write essays about those books. Maybe I read the wrong books but the books I read I found them very hard and actually boring. Maybe I should try to read some of those books now I am older maybe they… Read more »
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Alone
Daniele is in America for a week for his work, today is the second day and I will be glad when it is finished. Then the normal week start and it is a bit less hard. I really do not like it when he is gone in the weekend. Today I had a very nice… Read more »
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Photos
Daniele is crazy about photography at the moment, and he really has a good eye for it as well. The other day he showed me the following site http://www.lomography.com/ is about people nuts about old Russian cameras that are now being reproduced and improved. So surfing that site I found the following camera http://shop.lomography.com/colorsplashcamera/ I think it… Read more »