I don’t quite remember when it started, but as long as I remember something, as of the first day of my childhood, deep down there in my memories, I was always listening to music – and it was always rock’n’roll. My father have taught me what classic rock is, what speed is, what metal, trash, punk are, actually – he taught me everything about the whole specter called ‘rock music’. I grew up with Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen and Deep Purple and I have always been ‘that kind of girl’ 🙂 Commercial music, girls or boys bands have never attracted me. Daniel didn’t have the chance to learn for the classic rock music as of the beginning, but he has always been ‘that kind of boy’. I think that this actually sum up everything between us – we were (and still are) that kind of guys 🙂 So let it rock. One of my biggest dreams have always been to visit some of the greatest European rock festivals during the summer (Download, Rock am park, Rock am ring, etc.). After careful consideration and calculation, it turns out that we’re not gonna make it for big festival this year. But we could definitely at least check some of the groups that are touring Europe through the summer. /something to add here – some of our favorite bands are Americans, therefore they only tour in Europe from time to time, and this is the only way we could see/hear them live. As we don’t have plans Read More
Year: 2018
May in Ireland
It’s time to travel once again 🙂 This time we’re going to Ireland (Dublin and around) to check if it’s true that Irish weather could gather the whole four seasons in a day. Let me save your time wondering – yes, it can and it’s on and on – four seasons in a single day every day 🙂 Having in mind that, I have just checked for the best price for our flights and didn’t actually consider weather forecast. I was not disappointed, as mentioned above, weather was exactly what we’re expecting – rainy, shiny, windy, coldly, warmly and so on. Whenever you’re wondering if you should take this jacket in mid May in you luggage – yes, you should. If you should take spare pair of shoes – yes, you should. If you should take couple of light T-shirts – yes, you should. Basically you should pack everything, except the swimwear 🙂 We have booked small flat through airbnb once again – everything was perfectly fine. Just to mention that hotel prices in Dublin are almost insane, as in Copenhagen in Denmark. Otherwise, prices in Dublin are pretty decent, not really expensive and much cheaper than I expected. Which was of course, a good surprise for us. Souvenirs and other stuffs not so much, but overall pricing in Ireland is pretty fine. Dublin itself is not really big city, especially compared with other European capitals. There are numerous of old buildings, small neighbors of small houses with even smaller backyards, pretty much idyllic. Most Read More
Tasty ribs with green salads
In case you’re checking my blog from time to time, you’ll most probably think that my poor cooking skills are able to create chaos and breakfasts only. But actually I’m cooking mostly dinners, as during the work week I’m working (so – no time for cooking whole day), and in the weekends we’re having brunches somewhere out (after our morning cafe in Starbucks of course). Well, during the work week, and especially evenings, I’m too tired (and too lazy) to cook anything fancy, so my dinner lists were short, simple (you know my taste for simple things) and unpretentious (omelettes, zucchini souffle, salads, some small dishes in ceramic pots) but in the weekends I’m challenging myself to bit more sophisticated meals. One of the tuffest challenges I had past few years was to prepare nice and tender, juicy meat (steaks, ribs, chops, etc). I have tried couple of times but the results were poor to tragic. Meat was dry, tough, burnt and tasted like a shoe sole. Or brick. Friends and relatives were saying ‘Come on, this is the simplest thing ever’ and ‘Did you try to… (whatever)?’. Answers were of course, yes – I know, and yes – I have tried everything. In the end (it doesn’t even matter 🙂 ), I succeed after testing and failing again and again (what a surprise). I have managed to understand the problems I had in the past – poor quality of the meat itself, not good enough/not sufficient/or any pre-preparation, and last but not least – not Read More
Low carb coconut flour cheese muffins
I was inspired by one of my friends to do something with coconut flour and cheese. She made really nice low carb cheesy cake named ‘milinka’ (Bulgarian) and I was going to do the same, but found out that I don’t have one of the ingredients needed, so accidentally I did low carb muffins instead of milinka. As you know, we’re trying to eat healthy and especially to avoid any refined white flours with high glycemic index. Most of the time I’m using wholemeal and einkorn flours, a lot of spelt flour (dinkel) or oatmeal, oat or flax bran – these are having approximately the same consistency as the regular white flour, but are not refined and are better for our bodies. Coconut flour on the other hand is specific, having totally different consistency and taste than the rest of the flours mentioned above. Cooking with coconut flour is different and there are more aspects to be taken under consideration than just replacing one flour with other. Having that in mind you most probably know that every receipt with coconut flour contains a lot of other liquid ingredients, as this flour absorbs a lot. I have already shared with you 2 receipts with that flour (Coconut flour chocolate cake & Coconut flour cocoa muffins) but you should know that I’m still amateur in that area. However, let’s get back to the cheesy muffins for healthy (and lazy) Sunday breakfast. You’ll need: 4 eggs – 2 to 4 BGN for 6 to 12 eggs pack 50 grams of melted Read More
Summer in Spain
Our summer breaks are sacred. We have limited time to relax and we are waiting 3 seasons to reach warmest months in Europe, so… to have really nice vacation is a top priority for me. We’re already too old to go camping and too tired of nasty, dirty and overcrowded beaches here in Bulgaria, so the last couple of years we’re always traveling abroad at least twice during the summer. After more than 10 years in Greece, for our first 2017 summer vacation abroad we choose to check Spanish Mediterranean. I looked all over the offers I was able to find, but all of them were for one and the same location and I didn’t like it at all. Plus the hotels were really awful. After careful consideration, a lot of trip advisers and wonder, we have picked up Santa Susana – small village near Barcelona. It seemed nice and on an hour and half distance from Barcelona where we have never been. So, I was having the opportunity to mix my travel and summer break appetite and have it both at once. I booked a lovely (pretty expensive) (shame on me) hotel through booking.com and I can tell you something – it was worth it. It was clean, room big enough for 4 just for the 2 of us, nice breakfast, good coffee, friendly staff and located right in front of the beach and to the main street. It was also on 3 minutes walking distance to the train station. Now, let’s get back Read More