Lifestyle
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Eating Well: Weekend Brunch Frittata
I love Italian food and frittata is one of my favourite brunch dishes. It’s easy and very delicious, and can be healthy depending on the ingredients you use. I love adding greens, such as spinach, rocket or broccoli, mushrooms and other healthy veggies I may have around. INGREDIENTS 1 onion (peeled and diced) 3-4 medium potatoes (peeled and diced) some spinach or rocket chopped 1 pack of mushrooms chopped 4-5 eggs some feta cheese salt (seasoning to taste) pepper (seasoning to taste) Italian herbs mix for seasoning METHOD Preheat oven at 200 degrees Celsius. Fry onions with a dash of oil until golden Add potatoes and fry until golden…
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Eating Well: Celery Soup
If you love celery soup as much as I do, try this recipe. It’s quick and simple but delivers yummy results. It’s particularly lovely during cold weather, served with freshly baked bread and butter. Personally, I like flat bread that comes from my local Turkish grocery… INGREDIENTS 2 bunch celery (leaves removed) 2 medium potatoes (peeled and diced) 1 onion (skinned and diced) 1 tablespoon oil 1 litre vegetable stock 250 ml single cream salt (seasoning to taste) pepper (seasoning to taste) METHOD Dice celery and onions in small pieces. In a large pot heat oil and add diced celery and onion, saute for 10-15 minutes until celery is bright…
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3 Top Recession Alternatives to a Hotel Stay
In the times of economic recession and trying to find alternatives for a cheaper travel (think budget airlines), a hotel stay for many avid travellers just doesn’t cut it. They are often too expensive, while lacking originality, personal touch and ways to meet/socialize with fellow travellers. So, then nomads like myself consider alternative places to crash for the night during the travel. Today, I am sharing my experiences with three great and affordable (or even free) types of accommodation: hostels, Airbnb flats and Couchsurfing. Hostel For travellers on the budget but who don’t want to give the idea of a hotel entirely, I would recommend hostels. Even though sceptical about…
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TSV Tips: A Simple Shirt Saves a Day!
So you are travelling and realized you forgot your cool dress or a top. What to do? If you are travelling with a male companion, better your boyfriend, borrow his shirt and make yourself a fashionable outfit in few mins. Just watch and learn!
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TSV Tips: Making Keepsake for Chinese New Year!
Today is a Chinese New Year! This year is a year of Snake so I decided to make few keepsakes as good luck charms for 2013. I made snake Father Frost (Russian Santa Clause), Snegurochka (Father Frost’s granddaughter and helper) and snake ballerina (since I wanted to become one as a child). But you can make any character you wish as they are easy and fun to make. You just need to use your imagination and creativity! You will need following supplies: Thick felt (preferably white or bone colour) Thin felt (different colours) Pencil Round cup Threads (different colours) Needle Scissors Glue-on wiggle eyes Cotton ball Other accessories, such as feathers,…
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TSV Tips: Snake Jewellery for 2013
It’s a year of snake and people like me, born in this year, have to have something with snake design in their wardrobe! Source: Barbara Palvin Askew London Snake Bracelet Likewise, many retail companies jumped on this opportunity making snake pendants, earrings, bracelets and rings. I am, however, going to show you how easy it is to make your own snake design jewellery that can suit your own style. To match snake earrings my mother gave me for New Year, I made necklace and bracelet. For necklace you will need: 20 snake charms Needle and gold tone threads like these Pair of golden clasps similar to these 10 gold tone round…
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TSV Tips: Fashionable Gift Wrapping at No Cost
So, trying to be eco-conscious and to save on the cost of gift bags, I came up with a fashionable, easy and pretty much costless way to wrap gifts. This is example of few gifts I prepared last year. Pretty cool, huh? So, here are things you’ll need to wrap your gift: fashion magazine (the more colourful, the better!) scissors clear tape gift ribbon Here I used D&G ad, which I tore out and taped pages together in the middle. Make sure the spread is big enough for the box and all sides will be covered properly. For bigger gifts, just tape more magazine pages together. Once you placed the…
