Have a great weekend!

Good morning or afternoon depending on what end of the world you are. I woke up in the mood of cooking something light, healthy and beautiful.

So today i made a rice pudding a little bit different. You can try it tomorrow and delight yourself with some rich flavors and great colors and tastes.

You will need:

1 cup rice
1 small pack of raisins
1/3 cup of coconut cream
2 tablespoons of coconut flakes
juice of 1 orange
few drops of vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
1 tablespoon of honey
Orange zest

For garnish i used:
Mango
Strawberry
Kiwi
Almonds
Passion fruit but of course you can use any fruits you want.

Precook your rice normally with water and add the flakes of coconut, raisins and honey. When it's almost cooked add the coconut cream, orange juice and vanilla extract and stir normally until is cooked, add the orange zest at the end. If you don't have coconut cream you can add instead milk and butter.
Place it in a bowl and top it with the fruits and crashed almonds and some mint leaves . If you need more honey you can add by taste and...
Voila!!!

I enjoyed mine with my favorite tea at this moment, the brown rice green tea.

Bon Appetite!

Iziumytza

Smell of weekend, taste of Summer

(Of course the song to help you get in that vibe :D  )

It's Weekend, long weekend for most of the people. It's Spring, and May, the beginning of a new phase. We are stepping quickly towards summer and this is one of the months that brings the smell of it. Blossom, green grass, warm temperatures, walks outside, parks full of people, flowers, light clothes,shorts, skirts. Soon the cherries will appear, the strawberries, all the goodies that we wait for the entire year.
No other cherries are better than the ones in May-June.
I've been eating cherries and strawberries here all winter but I'd exchange all of them for one ride in the top of the tree to eat them from the very top brunch, pick it myself one by one, look at them, how shiny they are, yellow and pink, kissed by the sun....sooo aromatic, with a taste of childhood, so  sweet, juicy, savory, unspeakable, and the strawberries.... the strawberries picked from the garden, not from a plastic box, with a unperfect shape but with a perfect taste. Some round, some with a  pineapple shape, bigger, smaller but all with the same aromatic smell. Unless you grew up in a village you must know the trick how strawberries should be ate: You pick them, bring it slowly to your mouth, blow them of ground and dust and eat them from one bite :) Never wash them unless they are really dirty, you will always feel the taste difference if u wash or not wash them.
And i got into my childhood fantasies....:)  I'm sure all of you all of you wait this moments as much as I do.

Enjoy your weekend and be patient, we are almost there. In the meanwhile, feed yourself with the sun warm, let yourself hypnotized by the scent of the blossoms, thrill your eyes with the beauty of the flowers, enjoy Spring!