Banana Mango Kiwi Smoothie

The pictures speak for themselves I guess.

Mjammi!

Balcony Tomatoes

I never ever want to live in a city again without having a balcony (or a garden!). This spring I spend a lot of time digging in soil. Planting flowers. Sowing seeds. Waiting. Being patient. Watering. I loved it! Spending time on the balcony felt like holiday. I also really like the idea of being able to plant your own vegetables. 
So one project were the tomatoes. We had seeds but the plant did grew really slow at first. But then I spend some weeks somewhere else and when I came back it was really high. Still there were no blossoms on the plant... So we were waiting again. Did fight against plant louses. And then there were blossom and suddenly small green balls, yeah, tomatoes! But as it was late in summer already, there was less sun every day... So we did harvest them green. Put them on the window sill with an apple. Nothing happened for a while, until I read that. So I did put the tomatoes in a box, wrapped them in newspaper and put them unter a shelf. And some days later I check and it worked!

Selfmade Hummus

This is a thing I wanted to try out for so long and it's really easy!
A friend of mine gave me this recipe.
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1 can chickpeas (just leave a little bit of the water)

3-4 spoonfull of tahini

1-2 garlic cloves

1-2 lemons

olive oil 

salt

Mix it all together and wait 2 hours. Then put in on bread or in a sandwich.

DIY: Treasure Map

For my work with children I always need new ideas to make up exciting stories. Usually I think of things I have at home anyway and how I can use them to do something by myself.
So one evening I ran out of ideas, so my boyfriend and me were brainstorming and finally he came up with this idea: Making a message in a bottle and creating a treasure map with the help of stamps. We really had fun to make the treasure map by painting and stamping pirates, ships and a treasure. Coffee, burned edges of the paper and crumpling the whole thing made the look complete. I haven't done that since my art class back then in school.

The task for the children was to "read" the message in the bottle. It can be read as a short comic-story about pirates on a ship who come to an island, where a monkey gives them a treasure map. In the end they went for treasure hunting. Afterwards the kids could "write" down their own messages or stories with the stamps. That was also an exercise to practice fine motor skills.
Of course I pretended to have found the message in the bottle at the beach and that the treasure map is really old and should not be touched, otherwise it would fall into a million pieces.

Plum Crumble Cake

Autumn time is harvest time. When I am at my fathers house I use to help him harvesting the plums from the trees in the garden. We put up a ladder to reach the ones we can't pick from the ground. Sometimes the leaves are wet from the rain and it's misty around the garden. The plums are quite sweet and tasty. He uses to make jam out of them. This year I am not home for harvesting plums by myself.
Still I wanted to bake a plumcake,

so here is the recipe:
Beat 1 egg, 80 g butter, 80 sugar and a little bot of vanilla sugar until the mixture is fluffy.
Add 200 g flour and half a teaspoon baking powder.
To make the dough softer add 4 spoons of milk and 2 spoons of rum.
Put the dough in a form and place the cutted plums without the pit on it.
For the crumble (streusel) mix cold butter, flour, sugar and cinnamon, the mixture will crumble by itself if you are lucky. Sprinkle the streusel over the cake and put it in the oven for about 40 minutes. I did in a gas stove, so I can't give any exact information about the heat. In general I use to improvise a lot when I cook or bake.

Blueberries

When I was at home during summer holidays we were hiking up the mountain around my village and found the perfect spot for blueberry picking. Unfortunately it was raining, and the blueberries were so small, so it would take hours to get a good  amount. So we were just eating them right away. I like these berries so much, although they are not linked to any childhood memory but to my love to scandinavia. But not even there I did pick a lot of them. It was last summer on my travels to Estonia, that we discovered a lot of them, much bigger than those you can find in Germany.
Well to disappoint you, the ones in the muffins are from the supermarket, but who cares when there is so much memories linked to them?