Lately I'm busy with working on two designs for rings, to be 3D printed (it's like how you print on paper, but instead of one layer of ink, thousands of layers of for instance stainless steel or plastic are stacked); parttime work in the cooking supplies store; tying up loose ends on a small webdesign job that keeps dragging on a bit (come on people, move it! I really want to be done with it); nourishing my ongoing thoughts about my professional website-to-be and new business name (not completely decided on yet); baking cakes (it's birthday season for my boyfriend and me); cleaning and tidying up the house (again, birthday season) and, most important, eating lots of ice cream because it is really freaking hot at the moment and I still need to get used to it.
Because of the heat, I was craving for a healthy salad for lunch, and my chives plant had started to bloom, which negatively affects the taste. Fortunately, the flowers are edible (quite juicy actually), a perfect way to get rid of them! So I whipped up a little salad:
Cucumber-tomato salad with chive flowers and a yoghurt dressing (in Dutch: komkommer-tomaat met bieslookbloemen).
For one person I used:
- 1/3 cucumber, in small pieces
- 1 tomato (without the seeds, cuz it's so much more healthy that way), in small pieces
- a handful of chives and chive flowers
- a few basil leaves, chopped into small pieces
- some bacon, chopped
- half a handful of dry roasted pumpkin seeds
For the dressing, I mixed:
- a few tablespoons yoghurt
- one teaspoon honey
- paprika powder
- pepper
Mix the salad, mix the dressing and pour it over the salad: enjoy! I ate it with some baguette with homemade herb butter (unsalted butter, crushed garlic, chives, parsly, some thyme, salt and pepper, best made a day before use) and was quite satisfied with the taste. The pumpkin seads were just added because I need to remind myself to eat more of them (y'know, healthy and stuff), however I was pleasantly surprised with the earthy element it added to the salad.
Also, a little snapshot of our table (we use it for our personal projects):
Really really really fanatic followers of my previous blog might recognise the fabric from here, I bought it some time ago at a Quilter's shop. Before, I had absolutely no idea those even existed in the Netherlands, but turns out there is even one in my home town. As I felt that I needed something simple and stress-free to unwind in the evenings lately, I picked it up to make a small patchwork spread, to be used as a pillowcase or something. Naturally, I managed to mess up during the making of the templates (with only two to make, you'd think I'd manage at least that), only to find out the error when trying to connect the second row of pieces and seeing they were too small. Turns out I made the triangles half the size they were supposed to be...
Now I'll have to try and cut out double the amount of triangles while having very small scraps of fabric left, I hope it'll be enough!
Oh yeah, I came across this brilliant song that I just don't want to keep from you: enjoy!
P.S. Can't yet show any pictures of the rings I'm working on though, I definitely will when they are finished. I hope to be able to send them to the printer in two weeks, yay! Planning might be a bit optimistic, but it helps me speed things up a bit. Or helps me to start working on it althogether, whatever you want to call it.
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