Friday!

We are enjoying a nice and relaxing Friday night right now. Sometimes all you want to do after a long week is to chill out together with some nice food and a bottle of wine!

Happy Friday my friends!

Emelie ♥

Happiness

Isn’t it great when you can feel happiness from such a simple thing as finding a magazine from Sweden in the letterbox!

Thanks Mum, I get so excited every time!

Now I’m going to cuddle up on the couch with a hot cup of tea and read the magazine from cover to cover. Some me time when my imagination travels back home!

Emelie ♥

Dinner on a Tuesday night

I find that Tuesdays are nothing days, it’s ages until the weekend and there never seem to be any morning tea at work on Tuesdays. To make things more interesting I try to cook something really nice for dinner on Tuesday nights. This is what I made tonight, it’s a dish inspired by a meal I’ve had at Matilda Bay restaurant. I used the basis but gave it a little Emelie twist, like I always do!

Em’s Pearl Barley and Pumpkin Risotto

200g pearl barley
1 clove crushed garlic
½ brown onion, finely chopped
50ml white wine
1 litre vegetable stock
1 red onion
1 small butternut pumpkin
80g grated parmesan
2 handfuls of spinach
Persian Fetta
Sundried tomatoes
Olive oil
Balsamic glaze
Sea salt and cracked pepper

Soak pearl barley in water and leave in the fridge the night before cooking the risotto.

Cut red onion into wedges and dress with the balsamic glaze, lay on baking paper. Peel and dice the pumpkin, coat with olive oil season well and roast on the same tray with the baking paper as the red onion. Cook in the oven in 180 degrees until the pumpkin is just cooked, you want the onion to be cooked well and be caramelised.

Sauté the onion and garlic in olive oil, then add the pearl barley and white wine. Add stock gradually until all stock is absorbed.

When the risotto is finished stir in the spinach, parmesan and sundried tomatoes. Also stir in half of the pumpkin. Serve in bowls or plates, top with reminder of pumpkin, the red onion wedges and Persian fetta. Voila!

Emelie ♥

Remember when....

We went to DSA ball hehe.....

K xx

Sending Love from Paree......

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my beautiful sister Samantha hope you have a great day!! sending lots of love from paree and cuddles too...

K xxx

harley's first macaroon

we went to napolean street this arvo, to go to the boatshed to get something yummy for dinner, but stopped in at cimbalinos for a coffee. Harley had his first ever macaroon, it was cotton candy flavour! he polished off the lot! i managed to get a little bite, delish!

its the weekend!

I'm so glad its the weekend. Stumbled across this pic on we heart it

Makes me feel all summery.. i want to walk along the beach and pick up shells! LOVING this spring weather!

d x

You can take the girl out of Sweden but..

As a Swede living outside of the Swedish border, actually a great distance away from Sweden, I like to surround myself with all things Swedish. It might be Swedish magazines scattered around the apartment or photos of my loved ones. I have now added a Swedish touch to my cupboard with these mugs! It is a classic Swedish design created back in 1930, pretty cool! I absolutely love them and I will start to collect the range so I have the whole set – plates, bowls yes everything!

Emelie ♥

harley and soo, it's a wrap!

my wrapping samples arrived yesterday from knot & bow, all the way from NYC! LOVE!

d x

Chocolate pudding made with…

AVOCADO?!

yeah.. I didn’t believe it either, but after seeing a few recipes on Raw Food blogs I had to try it. I just had to!

So I did! And honestly, I’m shocked. I didn’t think it would turn out any good. I was expecting a weird avocado taste, but it’s really nice and chocolately!
Nutritionally avocados aren’t "light" but this isn’t about a low calorie pudding alternative. This is more about finding a way to eat more whole, nutrient foods and for it to still taste like a naughty chocolate desert!

1 ripe avocado
3 tbsp cocoa powder
3 tsp organic agave nectar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp soy milk
pich of sea salt

Put all the ingredients in a food processor and mix until smooth. Done!

Emelie ♥

"Oui Oui"

bonjour mes amis belle, hors de ma classe de français d'aujourd'hui en premier!

kx

La vie un chien....

Je voudrais un chien...rouler dans le canard poo et etre tres content!!

(Ahh to be a doggy...roll in duck poo and be happy as larry!)

xo C

put a smile on your dial

I cannot remember where I found this image, but I just saw it in my 'inspiration' folder and it immediately made a big smile creep onto my face on an otherwise boring, chaotic Monday morning. Balloons are so bright and cheerful they never fail to put me in a good mood. One of my all time favourite things! Apologies for not being able to give image credit.

kate x

"source d'inspiration pour aujourd'hui"

J'aime Elin Kling blogue

"The Kooples"

J'aime vraiment le kooples je veux porter sa tenue quotidienne, l'amour des bottes!
k

"Un Reve"

finally, a tan tote

where have you been all my life??! finally, i have found a soft leather tan tote, without a heap of detailing, well, with no detailing, in fact! its by rachel ruddick, and i've asked for it from my parents for my birthday next month. fingers crossed...

d x

harley and soo

am loving the graphic i created for my facebook page! YES you heard me! I did it all by myself! just a little bit proud :) now go and 'like' my page please!

d x

zuzii shoes for harley and soo

i finally received the samples from zuzii shoes all the way from LA on friday, and just quietly, i think they are going to be our best seller! LOVE!

d x

spring arrived early!

the weather was amazing today in Perth, which is lucky, cos Harls decided he did not want to sleep! we had two walks to two different parks. the sun was shining, I even took off my cardi & felt it on my bare shoulders!

d x
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handy tips for food photography

I came across this post last night from fat mum slim and think it has some really great tips for getting beautiful photos of food. Chantelle is not a professional photographer, but she is pretty handy with her DSLR and iPhone too!

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See her blog for the full post - http://fatmumslim.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-take-beautiful-food-photos.html - there are some really helpful tips in there!

d x

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exciting times ahead!

hoping to receive my zuzii shoes samples this week, all the way from the US of A! will let you girls know if i get them.. definately a 'must' in alicia's wardrobe em!
d x

Stora Köpinge

I like to check out the swedish property market every now and then and I thought I would share this incredibly cool house with you girls! What a dream!

Emelie ♥

paella

looking through the belinda black catering blog is inspiring the entertainer in me and making me think of great ideas for our next dinner party, something fun and casual always goes down well and what could possibly be better than a large paella, bamboo cutlery (less dishes to wash up!) and everyone digs in and serves themselves?! Just add a few caprioskas and that is a recipe for a perfect evening in my book.

both images via belinda black catering

Wedding upmarket

I had a beautiful day today with lovely Claire, we started the morning by going to the wedding upmarket fair at Mosmans. Got some really good inspiration and a nice glass of champagne and a cupcake! After that I wanted to show Claire where we are going to have our wedding, so we headed back. After all inspiration and talk we decided to have a bite to eat, and what would be better to end the day with than going to La Galette De France in Nedlands for some baguette, crepe and macaron. Thanks for a great day hun!

Emelie ♥

dreamin' of summer nights..

this is one of the only shots i took whilst down south last week, before the drama unfolded! this is mum and dad's backyard, what a view huh? it was a beautiful afternoon, and looking at this photo you could be mistaken to think it was a warm summer's day. it was a beautiful sunny day, but freezing cold! bring on summer i say!

d x

Fredags mys!

This is what it looks like at the Garnaut-Lindevall household this lovely Friday night! It’s the weekend my friends! Enjoy! xxx

Emelie ♥

out & about on a winters day

just mucking around with some photo editing websites, learning how to do some different things for my blog! happy with the results so far!

d x

etsy love

i have been spending alot of time browsing etsy of late, and this is my latest purchase! knot & bow are a new york based company, that sell gorgeous stationery, craft and gift wrapping supplies! i want to use the string for wrapping and am imagining somehow stamping the brown kraft dots with something for wrapping customer's purchases from my store!

d x