Had this two weeks ago paired with a delicious bottle of Amarone… Recipe by RecipeTinEats, with small adaptations (we only eat fresh homemade pasta, never dry; I always sub broth for more wine; and so on). A new favourite!
Ingredients Serves 2
150g fresh homemade fettuccine 2 tbsp unsalted butter 1/2 tbsp olive oil 300g mushrooms, sliced (whatever type; I made with a mix of champignon, oyster and portobello) 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1 cup (250 ml) white wine 3/4 cup (185ml) heavy cream (nata de montar) 1/3 cup (30g) parmesan, freshly grated + extra for serving 1/2 tsp salt and pepper, each Instructions Cook pasta in salted water until al dente.
This week the cutest thing happened: five kittens were playing at a parking lot when this one spotted me hiding behind the bushes. She decided to investigate, I pretended to be part of the scenery, very very still, and sure enough, she got close enough for this portrait! 🐈📷
When I said I would make a vegan bolognese for dinner using soy TVP, I was met with distrust in their eyes and low expectation in their voices. Once they tried it, they went for seconds…
This is an adaptation from Food.com’s amazing recipe. It looks beautiful, it tastes delicious, and it’s light on the wallet too. The whole thing comes together in about 30 minutes (instead of 3 to 4 hours to make the real deal, ragù alla bolognese).
My 73yo mom decided to start blogging too! After a few days trying out wp, micro.blog, publii, we settled on a self-hosted Htmly install. We needed PT-BR support and ultra easy to use UI. Finally all those old poems, stories and dreams will leave her text editor and live at mariza.blog instead!
We have a fig tree in our garden. It produces hundreds of delicious, sweet little fruits every single year. I discovered I am allergic to them on the very day I had them for the first time. How nice /s.
Luckily, I can eat them cooked. So I make jam. Jars and jars of jam, which we then eat with copious amounts of cheese. This recipe is inspired by Anna Maria Larsson’s version.
This week my mom arrived from Brazil. We drove from Valencia to Madrid to pick her up, and on the way back stopped to visit Cuenca. 💚 We visited Mora de Rubielos and Rubielos de Mora, two beautiful towns in Teruel. After visiting a medieval castle and baking under a 38ºC heat wave, I tried getting us into a local Michelin-recommended restaurant, without reservation. Was obviously turned down, but it worked in our favor.
A few days ago we drove to Madrid to pick my mom at the airport. She came from Brazil to stay with us for three months and the tickets from our hometown to Madrid were half the price of the tickets to Valencia this time. Only problem, the flight landed really early, like 8h30. With the sunrise behind our backs and the full moon still ahead, the four-hour drive was filled with photos and thermos' coffee.
This week I decided to stop faffing around and just book a date for my driving theory exam. Did the driving aptitude test and I was honestly expecting some kind of Rorschach test (because if I remember right, I did that 20 years ago?!), but instead it was a really cool Atari-like videogame where you control two dots on different lanes using two handles! 👾 Joined Mastodon and Pixelfed!
Help, I have over 120k personal photos in my hard drive. I am overwhelmed by trying to organize, keyword, and find a way to see them, to share them. In the past I have created:
Printed albums for our trips: beautiful result but too time consuming (and too expensive too, I’m not gonna lie). Online galleries: no one looks at them apart from me. Instagram stories and carousels: people spend 2 seconds on it and they are off to the next great thing; also, not everyone gets to see my images, as IGs algo is notorious for hiding what you want to see, and showing you more of what it wants you to buy.
This week I decided to take my cameras out of storage and put them to work.
The visit to Galactica last week was so inspiring, we decided to go back to Aras de Los Olmos to photograph the stars and the Milky Way. I posted a few images here! 🪐✨🚀 Those were shot with two Canon 5D Mark IIIs and the widest lenses I had, a 24-70L and a 35 f/2.
The visit to Galactica last week made such an impression on us, we decided to travel back to Sierra de Javalambre earlier this week to photograph the stars.
We arrived an hour before sunset to scout locations and we watched a lovely sunset with a crescent moon above. Unfortunately the location we chose had wind turbines everywhere, but hey! If you can’t fight them, join them. So the turbines became characters in the story and actually made a pretty interesting foreground.
Vacations, finally! Enjoying the alternating weeks of heat waves and cold fronts.
R.I.P. Ozzy! 🤘🖤 A few days ago we went to Mercado de la Imprenta in Valencia. Such a beautiful building! I posted some photos here. 📷🍷 This weekend we went to Galactica, an observatory open to the public! We went to see the stars, learn about constellations, and see celestial objects on telescopes. We ended up seeing the Milky Way with our own eyes and it is so much more wonderful and bright and beautiful than we expected!
Mercado de La Imprenta, a hidden gem in Valencia. Tucked away in an alleyway, out of the tourist path, frequented only by the locals, this place is really pretty and ideal for a cold beer or artisanal vermouth. We had both, while waiting for the restaurants to start serving… After starving for a couple hours, we were finally rewarded with a very tasty sushi and a bottle of Ribera del Duero wine.
Finally, a simple and elegant solution to my blogging anxieties: weeknotes! Instead of spamming people’s feeds with short updates on movies and dinners, I’ll collect everything into a weekly post. I still get my little corner on the internet to yell at the void, while keeping my own timeline cleaner.
I started following a Mediterranean Diet. I’d like to lose some weight, but my biggest motivation is to eat healthier and try different foods.
A month ago I went to Andalucía. It was amazing, I visited castles, went to two fancy restaurants, took a million photos telling myself I would make an online gallery, maybe even print and frame a few… and I still haven’t downloaded, edited or even looked at the images. It’s a struggle! 📷🗺
I’ve been blogging on and off since the early 2000’s. I’ve blogged about linux, going to university, movies, programming, photography, moving to Rio de Janeiro, moving to Sweden, moving to Spain, gardening, traveling, learning to play the piano, learning to sew, learning esperanto…
Sadly, none of those blogs are alive today and I think the main reason is I was misguided by the idea that “you need a niche”. I tried to put all the things I enjoyed in my life into tiny individual boxes.
This weekend we went to the xmas market at Ciutat de les Arts i Cièncias. I’ve been there many times before, but I hadn’t seen it during sunset and blue hour. The colors, the reflections, the shapes, it was so inspiring! 📷
