BAKING | 'GEVULDE SPECULAAS'

I started this weekend by baking 'gevulde speculaas', a Dutch spiced cookie filled with almond paste. Baking cookies and cakes makes me feel very relaxed and clears my mind, just mixing all the ingredients whilst thinking of nothing.
The Gevulde Speculaas turned out to be delicious! The various spices like cinnamon, ginger and pepper make it very tasty. Have a nice weekend.

Liefs

READY FOR 2013

I spend some days at my parents' house during christmas. My mother made this beautiful and tasty chocolate-raspberry-brownie-pie with whipped cream. Hope you've had a nice christmas.

I have gotten a little bit lazy due to the holidays. However today I started doing useful things again; I made the day-to-day calendar of Flow Magazine.

Flow Magazine is my favorite magazine, it has interesting and diverse articles and it offers small, creative craft paper materials. Unfortunately it's in Dutch, however they've come up with an international copy (click here to see where it's sold).

So, with the calendar completed I'm ready for 2013. Wish you all a good New Years Eve Celebration!

Liefs

BIRTHDAY DINNER

This weekend I celebrated my birthday with my friends and family with a big homemade Indian dinner! I had been cooking curries, snacks and soup for two days. I love to cook and share my meals with friends and family. Cooking is such a nice and relaxing process, I can put all my troubles aside and totally focus on creating great tastes. Since the curry scent was all over me I quickly took a shower before the guests arrived.

The dinner was perfect, the food was delicious and it was nice to catch up with friends!