Just before I go...

Yes , it could (is) be a title of a film... but it isn't...
Before I leave the North to head South I've decided to do a little spring cleaning (yes, I am aware it's summer by now!). I urgently needed shelves for all the books I had piled on my daughters bed... (she's away) and why did I have the books on her bed? because I used the shelves they were on to put some wicker baskets to hide shoes and toilet paper in a totally different part of the house...

so, as I was saying, I really needed a book shelf. I went into my crafts/sewing/ironing (and everything else I want hidden from guests) and... voilà! I had some shelves there that I could brighten up a bit (they are all white, really cheap ones!) and it would solve my problem... (my daughter will be home soon, so I really had to find a solution!) The only problem was, where would I put all the stuff that was on the shelves in the said room?! I sometimes have really great ideas... yeah, only sometimes... So I asked my husband (yes, I asked really nice!) and he built me a shelf in my storage (see above) room, a wider, all along the wall shelf... it is awesome... I haven't finished that room yet! will see if I can get some pics when it's finished...

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It's that time of the year again...

Hi there!

Yes! It's vacation time again... In a week I will be heading South... to my own little bit of paradise!

Where the sky is blue... (but really blue) like in no other place on earth... where the beaches are (almost) very clean, where there are lots of people just because it's summer... lots of people riding their bikes, the kids on a seat strapped behind... most of them sleeping in the hot sun as their parents pedal away as if they are being chased or as if there is no tomorrow... of course, if it's not a baby on that seat it's a dog!  and they really look like they are enjoying it! (not the baby or the dog... if you know what I mean!)

 

The menacing "voitures" parked while the cold beer disappears from the bars' taps!... Oh the bars! The cold beer, the oysters and the "moules frites" served right on the beach, from the little restaurant-bar off the sand... and the ice-cream, "made in" my paradise itself, allready one of the "seven wonders" (there aren't, but should there be...) of the place...
The list is endless, but you really have to see it to believe it... I mean, I cannot make it justice in so few words (or pics)... for better or worst!

And these are just some of the reasons I love going back to my paradise everytime...

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I love reading...

I love reading!

I read just about anything that comes my way and I usually finish reading whatever comes my way even if I don't really like it... I don't know why, it's just that way...

Well, what came my way this week was a cooking magazine! Yes, I've been reading recipies... no judging please...

I started reading one, then another and so on until I had almost finished the magazine... Now, for me this is also very useful because I was reading the recipies in french!, so I was actually practicing the language I have such difficulty in. To say that I found the reading interesting is an understatement! It was awesome, not boring at all! I learned lots of new words and even got the little bug to try some of the recipies I read... easier said than done as lately I have stuck to raws (yes smoothies!) and really easy recipies (specially the ones you prepare and stuck in the oven for 40 minutes and voilà!).

But just so you know, clafoutis are very easy to make and (I didn't know this!) you canalso make salted ones, not just sweet ones! Because, and I learned this shortly after coming to live in France, clafoutis are specially made with cored fruits, like peaches or cherries, and you leave the core (it's not at all nice to eat the cake with the fruits core, but, what do I know!). So imagine my surprise when I see clafoutis made with cherry tomatoes and feta cheese and ham... no cores there...

Will be trying that soon... right after my ratatouille fase... and smoothies fase...

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Philosophy...

Just read this on a blog I recently discovered http://decordeprovence.blogspot.fr! it totally agrees with my latest philosophy in life... is today the first day of the rest of my life?

Smoothies, really?!

I have news! Ver big news! I'm a rawkstar!
I'm not a fruit or vegetable person. I eat my salads like everyone (does everyone eat salad? for next post!), but I don't really like vegetables or eat fruit, I will eat it if there is nothing else and I'm really hungry, but that's all. I'm not the mum that buys kilos of fruit everyweek (wasn't!) and makes everyone eat lots of fruit because it's good for you!
Well... I accidently tripped over an article or a page, can't remember of www.simplegreensmoothies.com and was hooked! In their page they promise to hook us on the smoothies after the first one, but I actually was hooked after reading their posts and their recipies... they are nothing short of awesome! By chance this was just before they started a 30 day challenge, which I signed for immediatly. Got the blender, got the ingrédients and voilà! I also managed to drag my husband... but I'm starting to regret it because, yes, I created a smoothies monster and he now wants to have his say on which on I should make more often because he "likes it better"! Really!
If you read my posts, you know I just don't stick to anything for long (not even the posts! gosh!) but I am pleased to say that I hqve been religiously following their challenge and I'm loving it...
Honestly, who could imagine that spinach and bananas could taste so good... I have even made my own almond milk... ok, I could say I'm frugal right here, but really, the almonds alone cost a fortune, it's far cheaper to buy the milk! nevertheless I'm very proud of myself... of course, now that I have shared such information I will just probably stop making the smoothies... I hope not... well, we'll find out soon enough...



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