Cheese and mushroom pastry dinner

Hi,
It's been a while but I'm back :)

I've been a vegetarian for a few months now, I'm not really missing the meat and fish, actually not at all. In the beginning I thought that I was going to miss it, but thats not the case.
Today I'm going to show you how to make an easy veggie diner, this is a really easy and fast type of dinner.

Here we go.
This is what you're going to need:
- camembert cheese
- mushrooms (you can mix different types here)
- garlic
- puff pastry
- salt and pepper
- egg

So I'm going to start with cutting and cooking the mushrooms. Also add a bit of salt and pepper, how much you like and also the garlic. I put one clove of garlic in it, depends on your taste. You can also add parsley and union in it if you want, but I didn't because my sister is allergic to it.

Then you take you puff pastry and cut 6 circles out of it. If you make it for 2 people like I'm doing use 2 puff pastries. After cutting your pastry you can start cutting your cheese. Put the cheese on half of your pastries and on top of that you can put your mushrooms. Then cover it up with another pastry. You can now roll up the edges of the pastry and then push it together using a fork. With the fork you should also put some holes on top of the pastry, so the air can come out.

Now put your pastries on an oven dish and before putting them in you can take the egg and mix it up. Then take a brush and put the egg on top of your pastries. Now you can put it in the oven. Put the oven on 200°C for 15 minutes. Let it cool down for a few minutes. In this time you can put a salad together to eat with your pastry.

I hope you enjoy making it and eating it.
Let me know if you make it and what you think of it :)
If you like brie you can also make it with that and put a little bit of honey on top of it.
Enjoy!

Love,
Sarah

New year, new me. Or not :)

Happy new year!! 2017 has started!

Today we make our new years resolutions.
What are yours?
For me and my family I hope it's a year without sorrow or setback. Actually I hope that for everyone of you! That everyone has a great year and that all your wishes may come true!
For me personally I will start a diet and really stick to it! I hope to have lost at least 10kg by this summer and then another 10kg after the summer, that would be nice. For my health and for me in general. Let's hope this works!
For me it's not really a new year a new me, I'm not gonna change dramatically, at least not my personality, cause I know who I am and what I want. The only thing that is gonna change is hopefully my body and mindset about food :)
I'll keep you posted and let my progress know in about 6 months, hopefully I don't let myself and you guys down.

So new years eve, what have you done?
Party or stayed home?
I stayed home with the family, like last couple of years, I'm not really liking going out. Maybe I'm getting old or maybe it's just not the same anymore... Don't really now.
But I like staying home with the family in the holidays, thats what's it all about for me.

I hope you all had great holidays and to all a happy new year!

Love,
Sarah

Christmas tree

It's that time of the year again!
Time to put the christmas tree up!
We have bought a fake christmas tree a few years ago, because my sister is allergic to the real thing.
But it's a good quality tree, at the time it was around the 100 euros we paid for it and we have it more than 6 years for sure. It's about 1m80 of length.
In the package there's a foot to stand the tree up on, and then there's 3 pieces to put on top of each other and then you have our tree. It's up in about 5 minutes or less, but after you have to open up the branches a little and that takes a good 10 minutes if you wanna do it nicely.
Tadaaa now you have a tree :)




Now it's time to put some lights in it.
I've bought new ones this year and I went for warm ones, but I didn't looked at the length of it so I had to go back and buy a second pair of lights :)
I've started from the bottom up and put them more on the outside of the tree, so you see them really good instead of hiding them. Halfway up the tree I had to start with my second pair of lights that I bought. And this is the result!
I think it came out really nice.





Lets put in some ornaments in it!
This year we went for the colors red and gold, so it's a warm tree this year. We change it up each year.
First I've put in the red ornaments in, a bit all over the tree. The smaller ones I've put on top and the bigger ones in the bottom. We have shiny ones, matt ones and glitter ones. After that I've put in the golden ones, those are the same ones as the red ones. We bought those for about 15 euros the box, there are 24 ornaments per box. We finished it of with some bowes, also in red and gold. This time it didn't want to work for me, so my mom was so nice to help with the bowes.
This is the end result!
Hope you like my christmas tree, by now there are also some presents under it, you can see it on my instagram @theadventure_oflife . I'm interested to see your christmas tree, so you can share it with me if you want.

Love,
Sarah

Christmas Cupcakes

This week we will make some delicious cupcakes, specially decorated for Christmas.
It's a pretty easy recipe and they're really good.
It takes about an hour to make them.

These are the ingredients: 150gr of butter, 500gr all purpose flowers, 280gr caster sugar, 15ml baking powder, pinch of salt, 3 eggs, 150ml milk, 50ml water, 5ml vanilla essence.


Start baking!
Put the butter and the dry ingredients together.
But the milk, the water, the eggs and the vanilla essence in and mix, about 3 minutes by hand, if you do it with a mixer it's good after 1,5 minutes.
This should be good for around 20 cupcakes, you can put the mix in cupcake forms now.
Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees, then put the cupcakes in for 10 - 15 minutes.
If you wanna know if they're ready put a tooth pick in it and if there is no dough sticking on it they are ready.
This is how they should look, I also had a little more cupcakes :)

Now let's start the decorations :)
First I made the buttercream, for this you need butter, sugar and vanilla essence.
I used 250gr butter and with that 370gr sugar and about a teaspoon of vanilla essence. Then I separated the buttercream in 3 bowls and in 2 of then I put food coloring, in one green and the other red.
Then first I cut a whole in each cupcake, in one half I put some dark chocolate cream and in the other strawberry jam.
After that you can put the buttercream on top of it.
I also bought some other little decorations to put on it. I cut a christmas tree out of sugar paste and on top of it I put some sugar balls. I also used some candy cane decoration and mistletoe.

Hope you guys like my designs? Don't hesitate to share yours :)
Love,
Sarah

DIY Advent Wreath

It's almost Christmas! The most magical time of the year!
I love this time of the year so I thought to do a little countdown for it.
I'll do blogs about all that has to be ready for that time :)

Today's blog will be a DIY about how to make a Advent Wrath. My sister helped me make it, we did a little crafting this afternoon.
So first we went to buy some stuff, we needed some decoration and of course the circle it's one made of strong hay. I think everything cost about 10€, I found everything at a cheap price.
Of course I also needed the leaves of a pine tree to decorate all of it.
You also need some glue, eventually a glue gun and some glitters.
Of course you also need 4 candles, all from different seizes, we chose for white ones.

Let the crafting begin. First we glued the candles on the circle of hay, for that we used the glue gun. It's kind of tricky but at the end they stayed on very nice.
The we used the pine tree leaves to hide the hay of the circle. For this we also used the glue gun cause the glue is transparent.
For decoration I bought some white and red berries, fake ones of course :) I also bought some wooden reindeers and some wooden hearts. The hearts I also decorated with some glitter, some red ones and some silver ones, I also left some in the wood.
So now you can start to decorate it all, you can do this like you desire.
This is how I did it. At the end I also put some fake snow on the bottom.

I hope you like the results, enjoy making your own and don't hesitate to share yours.

Love,
Sarah

Halloween

Hello,

Are you all ready for Halloween this year?
Here we don't celebrate it as much as in the USA for example but me and my family still like to decorate a little.

So this year we decorated the house a little.
When I studied in L.A. I bought a few little things out there for this holiday and we still use it.
I bought all small things and made a Halloween box for my sister, I put in some spiderwebs and fingers also candy of course and a set to cut a pumpkin.

In our hallway we put a horror cup to drink out with a finger next to it and of course some spiderwebs with spiders in them.
Then on the stairs we put all spiderwebs on the railing with also spiders in it.
At the downstairs toilet we put spiderwebs on the mirror with a small spider in it.
Also nice to know is that everyone is scared of spiders in the family, expect for my parents :)
On the front door we've put a board with on it 'the witch is in' and you can change it in 'the witch is out'. Also a souvenir from my stay in L.A.
At the front door we also have a pumpkin and some creepy lanterns.
Thats about how we decorated our house, it's not that much but it puts us in the right spirit.

Yesterday I've been carving a pumpkin with my sister, we each made our own. It was so fun because we did it outside in the dark, so it was kind of a challenge. Thank god for flashlight on our phones ;)
My sister made a cute little pumpkin and I tried to make a more scary one, moohahaha.
What do you think of our creations? If you wanna see how we made them on my sisters blog fauvec.blogspot.be

To all a happy Halloween, have fun scaring people :)
Love,
Sarah

Harry Potter and the cursed child

Hello,

I know it's been a while since I've made a blog, first I was on holiday in London, this is where this blog is about and after that I've got sick. So sorry I couldn't write in this time.

When the tickets came out for the Harry Potter theatre I was one of the first to want one, the day they came out I've been on my computer the whole day trying to get tickets. It really took me the whole day, but at the end I've got them.
One year later it was finally time to go to London to see the play. We've took a few days to stay to make a city trip out of it.
I went with my sister and my cousin, and we had the best time.

We left the Monday and we went with the Eurostar, first thing we did is go to the hotel to leave our bags there. What you should know is that my sister  made me promise not to take the subway because she's afraid with all the terror going on in this world. So we did most of London by foot or by cab at night. The first day we went shopping, I love shopping in this city, it's the best. In the evening we wanted to go eat at Jamie's Italian but we made a wrong turn and never made it. But we found Chipotles instead and I love me some Chipotles! The people there were so nice there, my sister has a lot of food allergies and the people working there managed to make her a nice meal anyway. We had a very nice first day and evening.

The second day we walked so much! We wanted to go from our hotel to Regent Park and Primrose hill, we thought it wouldn't be that far, but we were wrong. In the afternoon it also started raining, but we still got going. On Primrose hill you have such a nice view of London. This you really should see if you're in town. That evening we did find Jamie's Italian, because we went with a cab :) It was an amazing evening, we were laughing all evening. Our waiter was looking like someone famous and we couldn't come up with who he was looking like, so I finally asked him if someone ever told he that he looked like someone famous, but that wasn't the case, oops awkward!

Then finally the day came to go see Harry Potter and the cursed child! I was so excited! We left after breakfast to get our tickets at the box office. We walked all the way till there, a 2 hours walk, but we saw a lot of nice things on the way. After we got the tickets we went for lunch at a Starbucks, so we also got some wifi. Then we went in line to see the first part of the play, no spoilers, but it was so amazing. If you already read the book and you wondered how they would do the magic parts, all that I can say is that they did a wonderful job. By the end of the first part we were all blown away by how good it was produced and brought to life. In between parts we went for diner at Jamie's Diner a few minutes away from there. Part two was as good as part one, I just loved this play, I would like to go back if I could it was just that amazing. If you have the chance to go I can really recommend it and if you're going to see it know that you're in for a ride.

The last day we went to the science museum, a museum that is so good for everyone, you have something for everybody there.
After the museum we went to get our bags and then we went to catch our train back home.
So sad to go back home, but that's how it is.... To all good things come an end.

I hope you liked my story about our trip to London.
Let me know if you saw the play and what you think of it.
Love,
Sarah