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{waffle madness}

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January 30, 2011 By | 7 Comments
Writing about the yummy waffles in my last post really made me look forward to our Sunday waffle madness!
I’m always in charge of making the waffles and my hubby takes care of the rest. Aren’t I spoiled?
{waffle madness}
{waffle madness}
{waffle madness}
{waffle madness}
For a real (Waffle House style) American breakfast, you need scrambled eggs and hash browns. Latter are, if you don’t want to make them from scratch, impossible to find in Germany. So, we started improvising with so called Kartoffelpuffer. Kartoffelpuffer over here are usually eaten for a sweet dinner, with apple sauce and a sugar & cinnamon mix. Also very yummy!
{waffle madness}
{waffle madness}

ingredients

2 cups flour
4 tbsp. white sugar
1 tbsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
4 egg yolks
4 egg whites
1/2 cups vegetable oil
1 1/4 cups milk

preparation

Sift all the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Add all the moist ingredients, except for the egg whites, to it and mix until you get a smooth batter.
In a separate small bowl beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold the egg whites gently into the batter. The
egg whites make the waffles light and fluffy, so be sure not to destroy it’s texture while mixing.

Filed Under: DIY, Good Eats, Recipes | 7 Comments

{what I love today: very nifty}

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January 28, 2011 By | 2 Comments

I’ve had these Matryoshka measuring cups for a while now; since just a couple weeks after we moved to Germany and I got tired of converting my US recipes to grams and liters (and messing up on some of the conversions and then having to double all the ingredients, only to end up with a ridiculous amount of waffle batter.. which was a good excuse to have waffle for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Who doesn’t dream of that?? haha).

So, before Christmas came around (and I knew I would want to bake some of my american-measured recipes) I went on a little online shopping spree, looking for cup-sized measuring cups.
Well, I found these awesome matryoshka dolls. The dolls come apart and each little cup represents a different size; 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 and 1 cup.
Aren’t they the cutest?!

I use them at least twice a month (more if I feel like baking) for our Sunday waffle madness. We usually eat them as a late breakfast and they keep us filled up till dinner. Nom nom!

The waffles (+recipe) will get their own blogpost one of these Sundays. :)

{what I love today: very nifty}
{what I love today: very nifty}
{what I love today: very nifty}
picture via urban outfitters
picture via urban outfitters
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{type case project}

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January 25, 2011 By | 46 Comments

I finished my type case project and I love it!
It looks great against our grass green kitchen accent wall. Now I just need to gather a few little things to put on the little shelves.

{type case project}

I started the project last Saturday and was certain I would get it done by the end of the weekend. Well, as with probably every project, things happen to prevent you from meeting your “goal”.
For me this time it was paint drying time, having to paint about 5 coats, and then running out of paint. And that on a Sunday. Which in Germany means, no stores are open but gas stations and the flower shop in the nearby hospital. Well, neither one sells paint. So I had to wait till Monday to get more of my “titanium white”.

This is what it looked like, running out of paint.

{type case project}

And this is the finished project. I used white acrylic paint and then glued wrapping paper cutouts in the back of the little shelves. A very decorative, but thrifty project.

{type case project}
{type case project}
{type case project}
Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, flea market, Thrifty | 46 Comments

{origami flower}

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January 21, 2011 By | 25 Comments

Yesterday I went to the art store to get some supplies for my “type case project”.

Usually I walk past the overpriced origami paper, but since I had done so so many times already in the past and have been thinking about it every time I enter the store, I decided to go on a splurge and buy it.
My hubby and I had a good evening (I just realize how lame that sounds. ;) ) folding origami frogs, cranes, planes.. ..and flowers!

I love this one and thought I’d share. This is a simple, yet pretty kusudama flower.

What you need:
  • 5 square pieces of paper (I used 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in, but you can use any size really, depending on how big a flower you want)
  • glue or tape
1. Fold the paper in half, creating a triangle

2. Take the left and right corners and fold them up to the middle

3. Fold the same pieces down to the right and left outside edge of the square. They will line up with the edges.

4. Open up the pockets you’ve just created and press them down.

5. Fold the small triangles towards you on each side so they are level with the edges of the paper.

6. Fold the triangle in half on each side, using the crease you made earlier.

7. Apply glue on the outside triangle, stick it to the other side. This is you first petal. To complete the flower, you need to make 4 more of these petals and glue them together.

Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Gifts, Handmade, Thrifty, What I Love Today | 25 Comments

{flea market finds}

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January 16, 2011 By | 2 Comments

Today we went to the flea market. A weekly thing my husband and I do to find “new” and affordable things for our apartment.

I love going to flea markets and finding good deals. Browsing through the aisles, looking through all the stands, seeing the few things I like, not knowing how much they will ask for and then haggling, haggling, haggling.

Treasures we found this week:

{flea market finds}
tea or coffee pot found for 1€ (about $1.30)

Refinish following soon:

{flea market finds}
old type case found for 1,50€ (about $2)
{flea market finds}
Filed Under: DIY, flea market, Out and About, Thrifty | 2 Comments