• Healthy Living,  How-to & Tutorials

    Healthy Eating: Vegan Marinara Sauce – recipe

    I cook, that’s fine. But I do it because I have to do it and when I can I try to eat something fresh and light and avoid meats. This time I show you how I prepared a marinara sauce for pasta without anchovies.Probably you are sceptical now, but my whole family did the bis! They appreciate the recipe.In my sauce there aren’t olives so it’s perfect if you don’t like them! The secret of this sauce is adding all the spices little by little and taste it frequently to easily adjust the flavor. I used: – a can of peeled tomatoes, – 2 tps olive oil or corn oil, – half an onion, – 1 clove…

  • How-to & Tutorials

    Biscuits for Nostalgics – recipe

    What’s better than going home and be surrounded by the scent of freshly baked warm cookies, or relaxing and releasing stress by kneading? Here’s my solution: spicy gingerbread biscuits. Out of season? No, when I keep them simple and rustic without coloured icing and traditional Christmas shapes. It’s a recipe I truly love and I keep “reworking” to suit my tastes and the difficulty of finding the molasses which makes the dough more malleable. The ingredients for about 40 biscuits are:420 gr. 0 flour100 gr. sugar120 gr. soft butter160 ml. local honey1 large egg or 3 medium eggs3/4 teaspoon of baking soda1/4 teaspoon salt2 teaspoons ground ginger *1 teaspoon ground cinnamon *1/4…

  • Skincare & Skin Treatments,  Tested by me (reviews & swatches)

    Avon Solutions Hydra Radiance Refreshing Gel Cleanser – review

    Since my skin has become drier tha usual, I decided to use regularly the cleanser you can see in the picture below. It’s the Hydra Radiance refreshing gel cleanser, from the Avon Solutions line studied for dry skin or with dull complexion. This line, formulated with grains of paradise (also known as Guinea pepper), fruits of the Afromomum Meleguetta plant, aims to help accelerate the cell renewal process with products for each skin care daily routine step. The Hydra Radiance gel cleanser promises to “reveal refreshingly clean skin with a healthy looking, luminous glow”. Let’s see how it works and if it really does what it promises. This cleanser is…