2 of 5: Experiments with puff pastry

Here I am again, as I’ve promised. This time I want to show you the result of a day I decided to experiment what could I do with puff pastry, so I would know what I like best, what I would want to repeat.

This picture was taken just out of the oven:

Up: different things with some chocolate cream, not Nutella, a darker one, more intense, from Oxfam.
Down-right: pieces of puff pastry with sugar.
Down-left: pastry-in-process, see the next picture.

I filled these with some different things: 1. Goat cheese cream. 2. Goat cheese cream and chorizo. 3. Blue cheese cream. 4 Peanut butter. 5. Pâté. 6. Nocilla (chocolate cream brand, white and brown).

These are definitely something I’ll do again. I love sweet & salt things mixed like this.

And that’s all for now. Next time (3 of 5) I’ll show you a family tradition.

 

Have a nice weekend!

 

Sabela

My bicycle

“I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there isnothing wrong with enjoying one’s self simply, like a boy.”   –   León Tolstói, Responding to criticism for learning to ride a bicycle at age 67

Today I’ll only write some lines, the picture will resume everything.
I haven’t used my bike for years, but this year I wanted to use it again. When I cleaned the bike I discovered it was rusty in some places where the paint had fallen, so I decided to bring it back to life.

I’ve sanded the whole bike and bought orange and purple paint… and after some problems (different kinds of paint, so many layers of orange paint needed, and some other problems), this is the result. It still need some touches but I’ll be able to ride it soon! I have to say in spite of all problems I’ve enjoyed the process, the challenge.

It was blue before, with some ¿brand? yellow stickers, but I wanted a change. What do you think about the colors and the design?

The inner tubes seem to be fine, I hope they really are, because I’m eager to finish and to ride my bike!

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”   –   Albert Einstein

That’s what I feel, so I need to do things – whatever it is. I can’t stay with my arms crossed waiting until some company actually reads my CV and decides to give me a chance and call me to an interview. So I hope you like my posts because I’ll write a new one now and then with some things I’ll be doing!

Sabela

Summer almost gone

“The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.”    –   Voltaire

 

 

This summer has been a busy one for me, but not as much as I would like as I don’t have a job. I say busy because I did a lot of things. I’ve had three weddings (as much as I’d ever had until this year in all my life!), I’ve done two online courses (one in Spanish and the other in English) and I’m doing another one. I’ve helped my father to put another door in the basement (a sliding door he was making, he has been crafting things all my life and I like to help him) and I’ve helped him too with the greenhouse (he designed it too!). I’ve baked a cake, cookies and cupcakes (the strawberry ones were delicious, so I’ll make them again sooner or later and post it here). And that’s not all but the other two time-consuming things will have more space here. The first one in this post.

As a wedding gift for the last wedding I had this summer, I decided to do some air fresheners, filled with lavender from our garden. That was not my first idea, but the previous ones were too complicated for me right then (maybe I would be able now to do some of them, but not then). I knew how to sew a few things, but in order to do this, I learned how to embroider and to do hemstitch. I used ribbons too, not only as bows, I introduced them as a decoration too through hemstitch in the little air freshener. The candy-ones are to have into drawers, the bag-ones to hang in the hanging bar inside wardrobes or directly in hangers, and the small one, the linen one, maybe to hang from the rear mirror.

 

I put de air fresheners inside a cardboard box decorated with paper gift and flowers (made with blue ribbon).

 

It’s not so bad, right? I have to say I’m proud of myself, the effort worth it. It was really satisfactory to finish all this and see a good result.

And that’s all for now!

If you’ve found my blog and you’re reading this: Thanks! I hope you enjoy it!

 

Sabela