spring muffins

Spring is all around so is time to cook something fresh, healthy and of course green. I prepared  for you special spring muffins. It´s really easy and tasty!

What will we need for 6 pieces?

170g wholemeal flour
100 ml milk
1 egg
80g butter (dissolved and cooled down)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
pepper (how you like it)
herbs (eg.: nettle, spring onion, parsley, chives)
cheese (eg.: eidam, gouda, parmesan)

For my muffins I have used young nettles and eidam cheese.

1. Heat oven to 180°C.
2. In bowl beat egg  and whisk it with milk and cooled down butter, then add herbs and cheese.
3. In other bowl mix all loose ingredients - wholemeal flour, salt, baking powder and pepper.
4. Mix it all together and fill muffin cases two-third full. You can use grated cheese on the top.
5. Bake it for 25-30 mins, until risen.

HAPPY SPRING :)

herbal and veggie garden

How to choose correct plants for your herbal/veggie garden?

On a garden bed we should combine herbs and vegetable together. It is even natural for the nature. We can create interesting colourful combination and pattern. But I am not sure if you know that every plant has its friends and enemies and it could affects its growth. In this article I'd like to show you some examples of veggie/herbal beds.

Aromatic plants may attract insect to pollinate, repelled pests and enhance vegetable taste so it is good to include them into the veggie bed.

The most common combination is carrot, onion and dill. You can also plant this vegetable with leek or green pea. But do not plant leek and green pea together. They are not good friends :)

Also you can chose just two kinds of vegetable, for example carrot and onion. In this case you should create bed wide 120 cm and sow 3 rows of carrots and 3 rows of onion. 

Nowadays is really popular beetroot. It is one of the most common species cultivated beets. This vegetable we can use in various salads. On the garden bed you can plant almost with everything. The best combination is for example with: spinach, parsley, carrot, mangold, nasturtium, beans or peas. Just potatoes or leek are not good neighbours. Also spinach you can plant with every kind of vegetable or herbs. This vegetable supports growth its neighbour. It is really good friend with potatoes, celery, beans, radish, beets or strawberry. 

Tomatoes are good friends with herbs. The unusual combination is with mint or pot marigold. On the picture you can see a sample with parsley and celery. But certainly it spoils nothing with other kinds of herbs even with garlic. Just never plant tomatoes with potatoes. It could be a disaster on your garden. They are from the same botany family and when potatoes are attacked with mold it spreads quickly on tomatoes as well. 

Green peas we can combine for example with broccoli, dill, onion, radish, beetroot, carrot and salad. Interesting combination could be with orange or yellow flowering pot marigold. Pea is not good friend with potatoes, garlic, beans, leek and tomatoes. 

There are a lot of possibilities how to combine veggie and herbs and I wish you 

HAPPY GARDENING :)

 

blanket for a newborn baby

Today I´d like to share with you instructions for blanket I crocheted for my best friend's newborn son Theo. 

For this blanket size  80 x 60 cm I chose yarn Himalaya dolphin baby. This type of yarn is really soft and the baby will love it :) I used 4 clews of grey, 3 clews of green and 2 clews of yellow. Clews number depends on size of blanket. 

Here you can see the stitch diagram I used for my blanket:

For this type of crochet blanket you should know how to make a chain, single crochet and treble crochet. You will crochet required number of chains (even number) and then you will continue according to  the stitch diagram above. When I crocheted required blanket size I fringed it with 6 rows of single crochet. Here is the result of my crocheting. I hope little Theo and his mum will love it :)

HAPPY CROCHETING !!!