Everyday food

Someone (my mother-in-law, actually) once asked me, if we always eat something "fancy", since I like cooking. Well ... we don't.

I do try to cook from fresh, healthy ingredients though, even if the food itself is simple.

For sweeter snacks we prefer fruits instead of sugary, artificial stuff. But mind you, I don't believe in absolutes.

Dinner is prepared as easily as cooking a salmon fillet (seasoned with salt), kale and broccoli under a tin foil in a 150 degree oven for 45 minutes. Quite good, quite healthy.

The baskets in the kitchen are also flea market finds (see previous post here). I've found that I use fruits and veggies a lot more, when they're right there reminding me of their existence.

Achy Breaky Heart

The title has nothing to do with the photos.

It's just that on a laundry crisis day I found this shirt from my closet and wearing it makes my head play Achy Breaky Heart.

Kinda like this look though. Just could've chosen a cooler day to wear a thick shirt like this.

 

And just so I won't be alone with my earworm - here you go! 

Rattan

I have developed "a thing" for rattan.

While searching for the perfect rattan chairs, I'm scratching my itch with smaller items.

Our home is very grey & white, and I like the natural warmth rattan brings, even in small amounts.

A day of summer

Or actually, it's the third day of summer this year.

It's been a cold and wet summer. So on a warm and sunny day like this, you have to make the most of it. Two-year-olds are good at that.

I bet it's the lack of sun why my sunflowers are not blooming yet. All they've done is grow ridiculously tall.

My vision of this was to have a beautiful yellow flower bloom against the white fence. Oh well.

Strawberries

I'm actually allergic to fresh strawberries, but I just can't resist.

I haven't gone picking them myself - they're sold by the entrance of every supermarket and the scent.. Well, just can't resist. So, a salad and a cake it is.

The salad has lettuce, arugula, sweet peas and mozzarella in it with the strawberries, and the cake is just your everyday sponge cake with little bit of vanilla. Yum.

In my kitchen

There are some details I'd now change in our kitchen that I designed two years ago.

However I like the overall black & white look.

The wooden sign behind the stove is an old DIY project.

And eventhough I'd like quartz countertops more than laminate ones, or I'd love a new steam oven, our kitchen works perfectly for what it's meant for (and what I love to do): cooking.

My hoods

We don't quite live in the middle of nowhere, but it's right around the corner.

I love living in these surroundings, where it's quiet and not all is covered in concrete.

Kid loves to explore. He probably thinks he's gone where no man has gone before.

I love that here, it's safe to let him wander by himself (well not TOTALLY by himself, he's two). No puddle is left untouched.

My little man.