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MAKE IT // Petite Kitchens Quinoa, Spinach & Cheddar Cheese Cups

After interviewing the amazing Eleanor from Petite Kitchen I was all inspired to make the husband and I some of her delicious food. I am always up for delicious food, and especially if it means no extra crap in there that our bodies don’t really need. Eleanor’s recipes are so damn simple. Chuck it all in a bowl, Mix it, Cook it. The kind of recipes I like. So here is the delicious and easy recipes for these little puppies.

This recipe is from her Winter Recipe Journal, Available here.

2 cups cooked quinoa, cooked in stock.
4 Free range eggs
1 cup cheddar cheese ( I substituted for Edam, which I already had )
2 large handfuls of fresh spinach, finely chopped
1 spring onion, finely chopped ( I substituted for red onion, which I already had )
Sea salt
Pepper

Preheat oven to 180C, and line muffin tray with baking paper

In a large mixing bowl, add all the ingredients and a large pinch of the salt and pepper. With your hands or a wooden spoon, mix well until combined. Divide the mixture between the muffin tins then bake in the oven for 25minutes or until cooked through.

Makes around 12.

Bam. So easy, So yum. Thanks once again Eleanor.

Head over HERE for more simple, whole and delish recipes.

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MAKE IT // terrarium

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A few weeks ago, I shared photos of the fabulous. Yes, Fabulous, Annie O’s terrarium workshop at Studio 46.

Coming home, I was all inspired to finally getting around to making my own.

I have had the vessel for quite some time, I picked it up at a garage sale in Hawkes Bay for a couple of bucks. And old mate jesus, who I spray painted. And finally I headed to get my little mates to go inside. Coromandel Cacti. Heaven. Rows and rows of succulent & cacti goodness, from the cute tiny to the bloody massive. And all as chip as chips.

I picked myself out couple of Aloe variegata and a big old Sedum rubrotinctum or jelly bean plant.

Both are hardy and robust, so they don’t mind if they are ignored by their plant mother.

I also got me some cacti soil, that has bits and pieces that they like, and some small pebbles.

So, this isn’t a tutorial as such, it is more like a ‘see, I made one, and you can too, and they are nice and fun to have around the house.’ kind of thing.

Brilliant, get your green thumbs out & let them have a party.

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MAKE IT // hand drawn font for fools.

 

When I was younger, and still a little now, one of my favourite past times was practicing my hand writing. Seriously. I used to drive my mother mad by ripping all the pages out of my books if my writing wasn’t nice enough. Crazy. Kid.

And over the years I have learnt a few things.

First off.  Do not rip out all the pages, It makes the ones at the back of the book fall out.

Secondly, I am, to a certain degree technologically challenged.

Thirdly. I either don’t read instructions properly or more likely, I am too impatient to read them, start it anyway, and give up because it doesn’t work.

And lastly, I write and shoot on a slightly skew-if angle. Like I am permanently on a slope.

So is my ‘ Hand drawn font for fools. ‘

 1. Take a sheet of paper and a medium felt nib pen. Preferably black, Is there any other colour of pen. C’mon.

  2. Write in your mostly lovely hand, or draw pictures or cool colloquial sayings like YOLO and stuff.

  3. Scan that sucker.

  4. Open that sucker in photoshop. Using you wonderful magic eraser tool, get rid of all that white, unless you want some.

  5. Copy and paste that sucker onto your nifty photos.

 6. Post it on the world wide web so people can see how clever you are.

If I can do it, So can you.  Happy hand writing!

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( See what I did there, flaaaaaaash )