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DIY is a matter of trying a lot

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Hi, it is very hot in Belgium and our garden is an explosion of vegetables. Very healthy food! Yesterday we ate a salad but today I planned to make tortillas with chicken and a lot of vegetables. I have a board on Pinterest with Food and some pins with baking tortillas. It looks so easy and delicious…  Right, I put the ingredients (flour, oil, water) together in the right quantities. Let it rest for half an hour. Meanwhile I sliced the chicken, put it in a bowl adding oil and herbes. Washed and prepared the vegetables (a bit more work than buying already prepared vegetables in the shop, o well)  Took a pan for baking the chicken and one for the tortillas. I added oil in the last one, but after a couple failures (it was disgusting) I realised the pan had to be dry and very hot. (NOT mentionned on the pins…)  The dough was very very sticky… So when you have two little children playing around, like I do, make sure you have one hand clean to help them out (and they ...

It has been a while

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It has been a while since my last post. Facing a writers block? Maybe you can call it that way. Or maybe I was not sure if my life is interesting enough to write about. It was after reading an article about how to start a blog and the advice tjat leading an interesting life is one if the keys to have a succesful blog. Well, and my life is suite ordinary. Mum, wife, having a tiny small business in knitting and crochet stuff, trying to make my own yarn, spending a lot of time in our garden and kitchen. But I missed it. The writing I mean. And if nobody reads it that is allright. I don't have to be succesful. Happy is enough. Love sofie