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11/20/2017

Wonders of Valencia: Spain - Day 3 + 4

I have to admit, these pictures from Valencia are my favourite from the whole trip. This city has charmed me. Maybe because of the mesmerizing balcony and its view, thanks to which I felt like a girl from cliché and very romantic Hollywood films or the market (Mercat Central de Vàlencia) with amazing food...I cannot express how much I miss paella with artichokes and sweet horchata. And imagine this: The beginning of April and you don't even need to wear a jacket! Despite that, the sea was still super cold, so no swimming for us. We didn't mind actually, we were just excited to be near the sea again. We only quickly wetted our feet in that freezing cold water and took some pictures.

The next day we went on a free walking tour. Our tour guide Miguel was one of the best tour guides in the world - I mean it. You have to love the person, who showes you, where to get food for free.

In Valencia you can find a lot of signs in front of the restaurants which say: "Agua de Valencia" Every time we saw it we thought: "What the hell is so special about the water here?" Well, during the tour we found out. It is no surprise that the alcohol is involved. The drink consists of vodka and fresh orange juice, so nothing new. Good old vodka&juice. However, you need to be careful and find a place, where they are using freshly squeezed orange juice and not the one, which you can buy in the supermarkets.

Love,
Lucy

❤

9/30/2015

Oven-Roasted Hokkaido Squash

Hello everyone! I am finally back and with a new recipe for you. Probably the easiest one in the world. I feel almost embarassed to share it with you, how easy it is. Since it is already fall (which makes me unbeleavebly happy) I decided to make myself a good old squash. Well...the squash was freshly harvested this month from our garden. And now I don't know where I was coming from with that...great....Well, I wanted to say how much I've missed you, even though you don't comment on my posts, I know you are still here people! (Thanks Blogger Statistics)

Let's start with this recipe!

You will need:
1 Hokkaido Squash
2 cloves of olive oil
1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of dried thyme
+ seasoning of your choice (rosemary, sage...)

Preheat the oven to 180°C and prepare a baking paper on your baking tray. This is very important. Your squash will otherwise stick on a tray. And we don't want that.

Cut the squash in half.

3)
Now it is time to take out all these seeds with a tablespoon.

Cut the squash into wedges.

Move the wedges on prepared tray and drizzle it with olive oil. Add sliced garlic, salt and thyme (or other seasoning of your choice).

Put it in the oven for about 40 minutes. 10 minutes before you take it out of the oven, you can a add a twig of fresh rosemary or leaves of sage.

7)

Let it cool down for a few minutes. When you have your delicious squash on a plate, you can drizzle it again with a tiny bit of olive oil and add salt.

Ta-da!

Love,

Lucy

♥

7/27/2015

Ibérica Street Food Festival

Let me introduce you the best food festival ever, full of food, dance, music, good vibes and amazing people! Yes, I am talking about Ibérica Street Food Festival which took place about three weeks ago here in Brno. I finally got to edit photos from this day and I cannot by happier to share them with you. It all started about 10:00 am. Me and one of my best friends arrived to the venue about 11:30, so we had a plenty of time on our hands...to by honest, we had all day. Even though that day was so hot outside, I thought I will melt just like a sugar cube in a hot pot, I loved it. This photos just won't do it's justice.

Ibérica is a Spain and Latinoamericano festival. I am so glad they moved it to Brno. There is always more than Street Food Festival. Like famous dancers or singers from Spain or Latin America. It lasted about five days, I think. I am not really sure now - three weeks later (or four?). I really wanted to attend more performances, unfortunatelly I did not have the time because I was enjoying Summer Acting School (by the way - I want back...I really miss you guys!).

The thing I was super excited about were free tastings and - of course - paella! Even though me and caffeine are not a huge friends, the first beverage I tried was Colombian coffee. Without bragging, I have to say I liked it a lot. I tried to talk with those people who were standing behind the stand spanish, but I am really rubbish at this, so all that I said was: "un poco" and "gracias". *ashamed* As I was enjoyng my coffee, a photographer came to this stand and tried to take a photo of me drinking this piece of heaven. The outcome you can find HERE.

We went from one stand to another with excitment pretending we are on our holiday in Spain. It is amazing how they managed to get exotic vibes to this incredible, normally dull city. Okay, it is not that dull. However it is nice to see some colours instead of grey concrete. After so much walking our stomaches started to sing so we decided to get some proper food. We chose amazingly looking stand which actually had a language school - TeachMe. The people were so nice to us! We were chatting and I asked about this language school, because - you know - I wanna improve my english as much as I can. I was amazed. I love how they try to be different than other language schools. For example they use tablets so the lessons are more interactive. No more sitting over a thick textbook guys! There is summer school running right now, which means 5 days of intensive studying of English. Or they also have Czech classes for foreigners. How many language schools do that? Everybody can sign up! They also organize Summer Cooking Courses or, as I learned, picknicks and many workshops. For more info visit their webside or Facebook page.

Finally me and my friend decided for quesadillas with guacamole. So delicious! It was just...I cannot even speak...I love Mexican food so much. I really do. Give me burritos and I will burst out of happiness. But this guys? My taste buds almost erupted. After we ate everything on our plate, we bought us some Chilean wine and sat down at Denis Gardens. An hour later we were there again for paella show and - cactus ice cream. What a delicious food! I need more of this in my life.

At the end of the day everybody recognized us and asked if we want more wine. We are not alcoholics...I swear...but who can refuse a glass of Chilean wine...