Archive for February 2013

these days


These days, I am being shaped and sharpened and woven into character and unique form. To live is an awfully scary thing, moreso to live in the world that we live in, because we are surrounded by so many things that tell us who we should be, by so many people that ask us who we are, and here we stand with our human hands and so many questions and so many battles and I still feel like a child who craves beauty, and adventure, and wants to feel and smell and hear everything the earth has to offer. I feel this yearning will always remain, and I hope it always remains, because I never want to lose it. 


 I believe fear is not an enemy, I believe fear is essential for courage, but in order to attain courage, we have to choose it over fear - and that is a choice I must make daily. If I am certain of my choices, and have no regrets, then I must be doing something right. Trust that life is not merely the number of years you live and the history you leave behind, but attaining your own journey and experiencing all the things you're experiencing to shape who you are. 


These days, I am learning to live. 

a spoonful of sugar

"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"

Anyone who knows me knows I am an avid Mary Poppins fan, thus quoting her words, but I thought it would suit the post quite nicely. As I mentioned before, my aunt and cousin are visiting from Switzerland, and she is a wonderful cook and a dessert expert. 

So we ended up baking a lemon raspberry tart alongside a chocolate mousse.


I brought the goods outside to have a change of aeshetic, color, texture, etc. It started to snow, but just enough to show up ever so slightly in the shots. 


Making chocolate mousse is surprisingly simple - we melted 300 grams of chocolate, and in order to have a good balance of chocolate and mousse, you take 12 egg whites and whisk them until very fluffy. Then, mix the chocolate and mousse together gently and keep in the fridge until you decide you want to devour it. 



Stoney's

Yesterday, we went on a small adventure with my aunt and cousin visiting from Switzerland to show them around and spend some needed quality time with them after not seeing them for five years. 
We went to visit the lake and later took them to a charming bread company called Stoney's. 


I must say that the butternut squash and pear soup was a wonder. Although that's quite bias because anything soup and butternut squash has my approval, but it also had my aunt's approval who is a food guru. 

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