Compot de mere aromat cu scortisoara, cuisoare si cardamom servit cu biscuiti cu miere – yummmy !
First eggs :)
20 Sep 2019 6 Comments
in Despre gaini si alte pasari
First time chicken growers may ask often when their chickens will start laying eggs. Of course you can find the information on the internet, but every chicken is different, depending on the breed but also on other external conditions.
Well, I am the happy owner of a mature chicken who start laying eggs 🙂
At exactly 5 month – 22 weeks old she start laying eggs. She is a bantam, so this type of chicken are starting to lay their first eggs earlier than other larger breeds, as well as they hatch earlier from their eggs – at around day 19.
The eggs are also smaller but they are so cute 🙂
Happy chickens 🙂
The best garlic press
05 Sep 2019 6 Comments
in Diverse
As you probably know by now I like my food spicy, and using garlic is one of the ways to spice my dishes. Over the years I changed many garlic presses.
The first one I got was large enough to suit 2-3 cloves, but it was made of aluminum and was not suitable to be washed in the dishwasher.
The second one I got was stainless steel, suitable for dishwasher but not big enough, it only crashed one clove at a time.
I bought a bigger one this time, suitable for dishwasher also, but unfortunately, because it is made of plastic is not strong enough to crash the amount of garlic that you can fit in it.
In the end I found the perfect garlic press: strong, large and suitable for dishwasher
In just few moves I can crush a dozen cloves
The best garlic press for me 🙂
Do you have a favorite kitchen gadget?
Balchik Palace and Botanical Garden
28 Aug 2019 6 Comments
in Calatorii
One of my biggest dream is to visit as many gardens as possible around the Europe. This year on my list was the Balchik Palace and Botanical Garden constructed for Queen Marie of Romania between 1926 and 1937 . A magical place I could say now after my visit there. Is a place where you find peace and harmony, simple but in the same time majestic, a place that I cannot describe in words, is a must see place to truly understand its beauty.
One of the botanical garden’s main attraction is the outdoors collection of large-sized cactus species arranged on 1,000 square metres, the second of its kind in Europe.
There is also an indoors cactus collection
The Palace garden left me speechless, so I let some of the pictures I took there to show you what I cannot describe 🙂
In one word – a must see place !
Homemade Aloe Vera lotion
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in DIY
I realized that no matter how natural are my shop bought skin care products they are far from the homemade ones.
As summer is that time of year when my skin is exposed the most to the sun, garden plants that can cause allergies or scratches, bugs bites, dust and dirt that clog the pores and cause acne issues, I had to come up with a recipe that suits my skin and solve all these skin issues in no time 🙂
So I made myself an Aloe Vera skin lotion.
I cut a big leaf from the base of my plant
Wash it well
Peel it off from one side to expose the gel
Scoop the gel into a bowl
Mash it with a fork
Until the pulp release the liquid
Cover and let it sit in fridge for few hours. It will oxidize into a beautiful pink
Strain the liquid, pressing down the remaining pulp to get as much liquid as possible
Put the liquid into a small glass bottle and add few drops of tea tree essential oil, vitamin E and sweet almond oil
I am not going to explain here the benefit of each ingredient, you can find their benefits over the internet
The oils will float on top of the aloe liquid
So it needs to be shake well before each use
I put my lotion into two different type of bottles, one with a roll-on to use for sunburns, allergies or scratches and bugs bites on my body
And one with a normal lid to use on my face for acne issues. To not contaminate the lotion I use a cotton swab to apply the lotion and than drop it and use a clean one each time
This is my Aloe Vera homemade lotion and it works miracles on my skin.
I keep them in the fridge and use as needed.
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