Pancakes for a Good Sunshine Morning

Good Morning Sunshine!

I'll be very short today since i bombed you with 2 posts yesterday :) I tried yesterday a new recipe that it's very easy to make and very tasty to eat. It's a Jamie Oliver recipe for pancakes.
And since it's Sunday it's a good way to spoil your partner with a portion of this and why not spoil yourself. :)
It's easy, it's tasty and can make you morning more sweet and colorful. :) isn't that great?

Ingredients ( 4 servings)

1 egg
1 cup of flour
1 cup of milk ( i used liquid yogurt)
pinch of salt
pinch of baking powder
4 spoons of fat natural or vanilla yogurt
100 gr of blueberries or black currant
vanilla sugar
olive oil for frying

Crack the egg in a bowl and whisk it well, add the flour, milk, yogurt, the pinch of salt and baking powder and vanilla sugar.  whisk all well until it gets smooth and nice. Add the blueberries or black currant and mix it all ( the blueberries give a bit of acidity which gives a good juiciness and accent to the taste. Put the pan on a medium fire with a spoon of olive oil and pour with the spoon the paste carefully spreading it around making round shapes on the pan. Let it fly 1-2 min until bubbles appear on the surface and then flip it on the other side.

I used condensed milk, strawberries and blueberries as a topping.  They came out soooo yummy...finger licking.:)
Enjoy boys and girls!!!
Have a good Sunday!

Street music wih great talents. Enjoy the weekend!

Well since it's weekend and its a relaxing and happy time i will talk today about people that know how to bring joy to the others. In the previous post i started to talk about this but from one thought to the other it lead me to another topic. People are pretty much defrost by now from the cold and long winter and weekends seem to be more busy, streets more alive, people more cheerful.

There is one thing that i like in the European cities, in some American too, Moldova...mmm...maybe but rarely talented :D, i really love the culture of singing in the streets and not just any people come out and do that, but really talented ones. I don't know if its a way to promote themselves or they do it for pleasure or fun, or all together but its very pleasant and nice to see them and hear them. Especially in good weekends you can see talents that are of a The voice or X Factor level.
They don't feel embarrassed or shy to expose themselves in the middle of a full plaza with people just with a guitar and a few coins in the box, giving what they have the best in them, bringing real music in you ear, your soul, your life.
It's impressive, its emotional and make you happy to see people that bring this joy to others through their talents.
I will share a few videos from different cities and countries I have visited in the last period where they have these kind of people. Some of them are not the best quality but will improve do better in time.
There is this very talented girl in London, she is probably a teenager that i saw last year and this year again with an amazing voice. The video is made in the night but you don't need much light to hear her angelic voice:

London

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!

Wedding Decor Styles and the Beauty of it

 Hello my dear friends!!!!

I keep on seeing day by day pictures and articles about weddings, about decorations, details, flowers, dresses for weddings and i just can't get tired of seeing more and more and of admiring the work of the creative people that put all that together . It"s an special Beautyyy, with great emotions, it reflects happiness, art, creativity.

No matter what kind of wedding you decide to have it will be magical. There is nothing more beautiful that to put together the perfect scenery of a fairytale event, that will host one of the most important moments of your life.
Vintage, Outdoor, Rustic, Beach, Chic, Victorian, Romantic, it's your choice. You can do it in a  Castle, Palace, in your own garden in the Backyard or in a Barn, retro style or Authentic it will be magical.
I won't talk much, i will let u delight yourself with the amazing pictures.

Beach wedding

Food can bring us Happiness

Good morning !!!

How are you all feeling this morning? I hope you are having a good one. How does your coffee taste today?Are you spoiling yourself with a nice breakfast?  I hope you do, cause we are what we eat and a good tasty breakfast and a sweet aromatic caramel macchiato or a Brazilian espresso can totally change your whole day and your mood for the day.

If yesterday i spoke about bad food, today i'm gonna speak about good food, about food done the proper way. And delicious food as well as the coffee or even better can turn a bad day into a fabulous one, and can bring Happiness to our stomach, mouth, nose and even eyes.
We get hungry and we know "We want!" something on the minute we see something that looks absolutely delicious, we don't need to taste or smell, our eyes decide for us, leaving all the other senses behind. We delight ourselves through our eyes, feeling already the taste in our mouth before even trying it.

We all know that there is the usual day to day cooking and there are the times that we cross our limits and we go for something new, for something Wow, for something that even us didn't know we could do. Well as i said before, lately i tend to do that more and more. I like to make the usual food to look unusual, to look like a restaurant style food. Most of the time we pay more attention to the taste than to the aspect and as good as it would be, food has to look appetizing as well and that's where the plating takes its role. We all know how to put some parsley or scallions on top or our food as a decoration, or powder sugar on our tarts. But can we do more than that?
Of course we do, we all can and it takes almost the same timing as cutting the greens :) Its just a matter of research, inspiration, patience and willing. You can become a 2 Michelin Stars Chef in your own kitchen. Oh, yes you do!!!
 I might not be one of those, but i will share with you 2 recipes today that you all can do in your regular kitchen, big or tiny and a few tips of plating.  So you can cook delicious food but it's up to you if you want your dish to look like this:

Experience of a Prawn Festival on the Dublin Bay

Hello sunshine people!!!

Most of you have a sunny day today! I do too. :D Yupiii!!!
I'll tell you about my experience that i had this weeekend. So, i heard that there will be a Prawn Festival in Howth, Dublin, outside the city and i thought to myself: "He he...this is my place to be, shrimp, , shrimp, shrimp, seafood, fun, close to the beach, Perfect!!!"  Well turned to be not so perfect at all. First of all was the weather, was sunny but by the time we arrived got kinda cloudy and when the sun goes away here, gets pretty chilly. But of course about that i can't argue with nobody :)
At first we entered a food market that seemed actually pretty nice, yummy stuff, but as we were heading to the Big Festival we decided not to eat anything lo leave space for the Seafood :)

Changes and people

   I caught again one of those rainy/cloudy days that makes me think of other things than i usually do. We are in mid Spring and in the period when the Pink Cherry trees are bloomed in NYC, the alley in Washington DC should be wrapped in the scent of their flowers, when everything starts to feel alive even in big cold stone/glass cities, even Chisinau should be greener and bloomed, ready to take people out of the houses after a long cold winter.
 It is about time when a walk hand in hand with the one you love felt so priceless or a walk in the park with your best friend or sister, admiring the flowers, getting coffee in Starbucks or Tucano Coffee or any other coffee shop felt so good and so natural that seemed it will last forever.
Well, it doesn't, or maybe it does but in another picture, with other parks around, other people, different coffee.

   We live in a world where everything seems possible and easy and in the same time some things seem so hard and so tough to keep. We move, we travel, we change and the rest of the world changes with us. Cities we leave behind, change in our absence, people we knew change, places we used to like, seem not to be the same anymore, people we used to know seem to be so different than before. And you think  " Is it just me or we don't really have that much in common anymore, I wonder if they feel the same or I just became a stranger?"  We change priorities, we change activities, we change circles.
Its the life we live, the one we choose,  that a lot of people have these days...traveling through life at a different pace. The style of life we have it has so much beauty in it but has so many imperfections at the same time. As we travel through life, living the experience of different countries and cultures, people travel through our lives the same. So hard to make friends and keep them. People come into our lives and go away as sudden as they came in. Some of them stay forever, some of them maybe we will cross paths again at some point and we will remember the old times, and some will take their own direction and we will stay just with the memories of " i new him/or her, was a great person".  But some, will always be at a plane ticket distance, ready and happy to see you anytime and get that coffee again, no matter at what end of the world you will be.

Good morning Dublin, New York, Chisinau and the rest of the world.
Go outside, enjoy the sun and the beauty wherever you are. I'll be here keeping you company for that coffee or tea that you wanna have, even if you are in Central Park or Stefan cel Mare and i'm in Phoenix Park or the opposite. We share the same sun. :)
And if you just need somebody to talk about anything, weather, spring or beach plans for the summer, while you enjoy your moment, i'm always here, happy to chat.

Xo Xo!

Iziumytza