January 2013
2 posts
“If you are what you eat, you are what you cook. If you can’t cook, then...”
Apple Walnut Crumble
If there’s anything I want to do with this blog, it is to teach people how to create in the kitchen without the fancy appliances. Most crust recipes would tell you to put your ingredients in a food processor. No need! You can do it all by hand. How do you think they made pie in the olden days? Here’s a really easy pie you can make to bring to your boyfriend’s parents’...
July 2012
2 posts
My heathy banana bread story
I used to be very intimidated by baking. Whenever I’d see homemade pastries I’d think, how’d they do that!? Buying sweets from a store, you don’t really think much of the effort put into making them or care less of the ingredients they put in it. These were my motivations in learning how to bake from scratch.
I thought, what if I could make healthier options for the...
Healthy Banana Prune Walnut Bread
Ingredients:
1 cup mashed ripe bananas
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup low-fat plain yogurt
1/4 cup vegetable or corn oil
3/4 cup brown sugar (you can put more or less sugar)
2 large egg whites or 1 large egg (figure out if you want the yolk or not)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (please try to find the organic kind in Healthy Options or Rustans supermarket)
1 cup organic unbleached flour...
May 2012
3 posts
How I built my house and made it a home.
Welcome to my home. Here you see how my domestic dreams have become a reality. Ever since I was a little girl, I always had a penchant for dressing up my own space. I have this innate talent for putting things together, organizing and decorating most likely inherited from my awesome grandmother and mother.
The heartbreaking experience of my family having to sell the house I grew up in...
“A well-rounded woman knows her way around the house.”
