Lunch pita and an award!

Simone (junglefrog) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:00:39 +0000

Healthy lunchpita

I know I’ve talked about health and weight and more of those boring subjects more often, but I keep wanting to be a better person, so … yes, it’s time again to eat healthy and (a little) fatfree. (but not too much mind you) And this week while I was busy running around this perfect little healthy and filling lunch was all that I needed to get me through the day.

It was very quick to throw together and I saw the idea in a book of which I unfortunately cannot remember the name (cookbook overdose??) but I will write it down if I find the book again. To make this pita you ideally use wholewheat pita if you can find it (I could not) and then roughly add some of the below:

yogurt (use fulfat or greek yogurt as that has more flavor then the skinny yogurt)

canned tuna on water

cherry tomatoes

dried apricots, sliced

lamb’s lettuce or another kind of salad you like

red onion, very finely sliced

Add together in a bowl the yogurt, tuna, onion and the apricots and season with salt and pepper to your liking. Warm the pita’s and fill them with lettuce, add the tunasalad and some pieces of cherry tomatoes and enjoy! I mean, how fast is that for a good and healthy lunch!

I also received an award from the lovely Trissa, at Trissalicious, who was kind enough to give me the ‘Over the top” award. Trissa and I have only recently met but I fell in love with her blog and beautiful photos right away. She is a lovely person and writes amazingly witty stories, so if you haven’t checked out her blog, be sure to do so soon!

For this award I have the daunting task to answer 35 (!) questions with a one word answer…. Yeeezzz… that is hard, but I’ll give it a go!

Where is your cell phone? Here
Your hair? Blond
Your mother? Sweet
Your father? Handsome
Your favorite food? Pasta
Your dream last night? Cooking
Your favorite drink? Water
Your dream/goal? culinary photographer
What room are you in? Office
Your hobby? Cooking
Your fear? Failure
Where do you want to be in 6 years? Famous….
Where were you last night? The Hague
Something that you aren’t? Tidy
Muffins? Yes
Wish list item? Too much
Where did you grow up? Netherlands
Last thing you did? TV
What are you wearing? Jeans
Your TV? Ugly
Your pets? Cats
Friends? Yes
Your life? Wonderful
Your mood? Tired
Missing someone? No
Vehicle? Volkswagen Lupo
Something you’re not wearing? watch
Your favorite store? Duikelman
Your favorite color? Blue
When was the last time you laughed? Hour ago
Last time you cried? Almost this afternoon
Your best friend? Jacqueline
One place that I go to over and over? supermarket…
One person who emails me regularly? Mary
Favorite place to eat? Home

Pheww… Ok, I sort of cheated on a couple and have more then one word, but that’s ok right? Now for the hard part, I have to pass this on to 6 favorite bloggers, but I have so many that it is hard to pick and choose, but here are some of my favorites!

Valerie of The Chocolate Bunny

Ben on What’s Cooking

Sophie on Sophie’s foodiefiles

Jamie on Life’s a Feast

Lisa on Lisa is Cooking

Reeni on Cinnamon Spice & Everything Nice

Rainier cherries

Simone (junglefrog) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:52:14 +0000

Rainier cherries

I had seen Rainier cherries a couple of times on various foodblogs and had also read that they are not really something easily found in Europe, so when we were shopping for our barbecue the other then at the Hanos, I was pleasantly surprised to see them there! Ofcourse I had to buy them as I had never tried them before and was anxious to find out how they tasted. They weren’t exactly cheap but o my god…. they were so worth it!!

I was initially planning on incorporating them into some kind of dish or dessert but they were just to good so we ate them all as they were… Gone in a blink…

You still wouldn’t find these in a normal store and I am sure the ones I bought don’t do very well in terms of food miles, but well, you have to indulge every once in a while. The taste is much sweeter then regular cherries and the texture of the fruit is also slightly different. Apart from the obvious colordifference.

They look like mini nectarines!

Does anyone know where they originate from? I believe I read somewhere that they are grown in the US, but I’m not entirely sure if I remember that correctly.

I would love to have more of these, but I think the cherry season is probably also coming to an end and it was the first time I had seen them there anyway. It’s a specialty store for restaurants etc. so not a regular store.

And what happened to me last week is that I received an award simultaneously from two of blogger friends! How fun is that…! It’s the creative Blogger Award and I received it from Jamie at Life’s a feast and from Missy at Sweet Crumbs. Thanks so much guys!!

And here are the rules of the award

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

So I would like to nominate the following people for the Kreativ Blogger award, because I love reading their blogs and think they are fantastic foodbloggers and foodie-friends.

Lisa from Lisa is Cooking

Sophie from Sophies foodiefiles

Christie and Ian from Coco Bean and me

Olga from Mango and Tomato

Valerie from The chocolate bunny

Esi from Dishing up delights

Reeni from CinnamonSpice and everything nice

And now for the hardest part. Telling you 7 things about myself that you don’t know yet…..

1. I have been a vegetarian for about 2 years when I was in my twenties.

2. When I was young I used to spend every wednesday and saturday on the farm of my friends parents. Milking the cows, feeding the chickens, I even helped with the birth of many calves and little piglets.

3. Between my 25th and 30th year, I moved house about 20 times… and that is a LOT!

4. I have two differently sized thumbs. One is short and bulky and the other is long and better looking… It’s genetic, my dad has the same but he has it also on his toes!!

5. I hate brussels sprouts

6. Both Tom and I are huge Buffy the vampire slayer fans… (well, I know it stopped ofcourse…)

7. I’m an aquarius

Well, not sure if those were very enlightening facts, but couldn’t think of anything else…

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