Happy 1 Year, you 'lil blog!

Yesterday, The Sassy Girl was 1 year old! I couldn't  resist baking a 2in1 cake. That means, Sassys one-year-cake and hubby's 1. March cake as we like to celebrate the spring coming. Baby likes  chocolate, I love fruits so it got a veRy BeRRy Chocolate Cake. 
P.S. Can you see the hour? That was on purpose, cause I was one day late so it's shortly past 1 year, ha ha ha!

Ieri bloguleţu a împlinit un an. Ocazie perfectă pentru un tortuleţ cu blat de cioco (pe placu lu' soţu')şi o cremă fină ca o spumă de căpşuni, cu fructe de pădure pentru mine şi pentru rozu ăsta frumos :)

P.S. Ceasu era trecut de 1 intenţionat, că şi eu am întârziat o zi cu postarea aniversară :p, ha ha ha!!!

{FOOD} Midweek's Cooking: Polenta & Champignons

Hi sweety pies,

How were the last days? Here it was soooo rainy, that we needed some hot home cooked food for today's dinner. 
I like to cook, but in the middle of the week I choose quick&delicious recipes that I also wanna share with you guys. I'm also very inspired from Pinterest or other blogs and I really like that, so I'll try to share every Wednesday an easy, quick and yummy recipe with you! 
If you like them, try them and tell me what do you cook for weekday dinners. 

P.S. I think what really matters is at least once in a while, to take time and cook at home. Aaaand to enjoy a relaxed dinner with your beloved ones!! 

xo

Camouflage

On a snowy winter day, comfy clothes for work :). Are your "Monday clothes" also comfy to make it easier to start the week? :)) 
greets, 

Week's Favourites #2

Favourite look
There's something aboout this look, it's fresh and really cool!

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Favourite snack

If you also like to snack, try this soft pretzels. Recipe here. 

Favourite quote

Favourite hairstyle 

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  This is Lee Heart Lee, romanian singer&songwriter in the band Radio Killer. Her hair is soooo cool!!!       
....hmmm...should I try red??


Favourite Funny

 Ha ha ha, this is sooooooooooooooo funny =))

Saturday's Soul Food

Today, like every Saturday, we were lazy and ejoyed the free time. We really miss our Saturdays at home in Romania though.. going to church, seeing friends, having the whole family gathered around the table. Anyway, having something more special to eat (special meaning what we want&like) is a must every weekend!

The idea for today's breakfast came while shopping at the russian market where we found some "turkish delight". In that russian market we find all kind of romanian products. So we instantly craved for some croissants like Ligia, my dear mother-in-law does. 
I asked her for the recipe and they tasted exactly like hers. Yeeey!!! The sweetness is very delicious to combine with some sour milk or yoghurt. 
The other food we had today was cabbage pie. Not really what you imagine in "soul food", huh? 
Have a nice Saturday evening!!
xo

Bows by Amy, Tiffany, Nikki, Eva, Lulu, Kara, Alex, Brittany...

Very Welcome you, crazy visitor!


Why do I call you like that? Cause I have the feeling noone really passes by. I know there are readers, I can see that, but it would be sooo nice if you just said "hi"!Nothing more! :) 
I do the same thing on other blogs, read daily and that's it! But I would really love to hear something back! Uff, let me get to my point...


WAZZUP with this crazy bowties trend? There is almost no day on facebook without the appearance of a new "BOWS BY..." shop/page. 

                                                          I have nothing against them, some are really cute.  I never wore one, and don't see myself so tied up, but never say never. Still, what intrigues me so much is the herd-effect it has. 

I want to learn to sew. I could create myself so many clothes... Let me start with something easy: a bow! Well,the first one isn't really as expected, after the next 3 m of fabric I got better! Hmm...let me take a picture of them, let me post it on facebook. 

       "Woooow,B, this is soooo beautiful! I want one too!"

"Could you do one for me?"

"You should sell them, you're good"

"Amaaazing"

"Bla bla"

Hmm, maybe they are right. If I like doing this, why not sell my creations? A big surprise is about to come. I will launch MY BOWS SHOP! 

I will do some bows too.

If she can I can too!

Why should I buy from her, I'll sell my own ones. 

This is my new collection, Bows by X.

 BLA BLA BLA

And that's it! Tomorrow there will be 4 new shops. WOW! A world full of designers... really?

Please don't get me wrong. I wish them all good luck with designing-sewing-selling everything they want.

There are always trend setters and followers. Even I followed this having-a-blog-trend, just please be original and do the thing you are the best at. I don't think that sewing bows is such an universal talent, facebook got so boring since you just see the same things every single day. 

P.S. At the end you'll see why you'll never see Bows by Sassy Girl. Cause my sewing is just horror, ha ha ha! 

{Food} MidWeek's Cooking: Spinach&Potatoes

Hello, hello!

This is just a quick cooking idea for a lunch/diner in the middle of the week. I usually prepare the more special recipes for the weekend, with cake or some dessert and during the week we eat more simple, easy and faster-to-cook recipes.
I really appreciate when I get diner ideas for the week, cause you know how it is, inspiration won't always come. ;) 

Lucky me, I was blessed with THE BEST husband in the world. He likes what I cook, is not picky at all and if I'm out of time..."a plate of sandviches sounds very good" as he says. 

   15 minutes in the oven... et voila!

An that's it! Simple, fast and healthy too! 

XO :) 

2013

- Wake up!
- Is it mornin' already? 
- No, it's not morning! It's 2013!!! 

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Yeey!!! Hello friends :) 
I'm still alive, even if this is my first post of 2013. I knoooow, the first month is almost gone, but still, here I am to say hi, and wish you all the best for this new year! Make your wishes come true, fight for them and live every single day to it's maximum! 

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So, it's been a quite busy start of the year, although I wished to do more.. 

I started with waking up... after New Years Eve :P, then had a work trip to Chemnitz which was superinteresting and I really hope to get back there soon, cause I got to learn so sooo much at that workshop. More details, next time ;).  

The city didn't impress me, maybe the fact that it rained the whole week influenced me.  B does NOT LIKE rain, baaah!! 

What caught my eye was the combination of very old and super modern buildings. This seems to be a trend, you find almost anywhere. I liked more the old charme of it but "Chemnitz – City of Modernity" is printed on signs everywhere. 

 *Little tip*

Pour les gourmandes you'll find everything you wish for! said from hearing, seeing an tasting a bit ;).

Then we made another trip, visiting my mom for celebrating her birthday..cake pics will come, as we'll celebrate one more time at our home. 

About New Year resolutions &Co. I might do another post. Until then, for me, 2013 is the year of challenge!!!

Challenge No.1- January

Starting today, I will post every single day!!! That means 10 posts, including this one. Uff, for some of you it might seem super-duper-easy but for me it's not! 

Instead of deleting my blog as I thought about so many times, I challenge myself to get used with constant blogging. Wish me luck! 

Chocolate Crinkles {last minute recipe}

Hi Sweets,

I know it's supper dupper late for recipes and stuff, I just remembered I did not post the Crinkles recipe and it's sooooo good!! When I first saw them, I thought they looked cute and that's it. I'm not the biggest chocolate fan, but I tried them for my love, knowing he would love them. 
If you are skeptical, like me, just give them a try!!! The moist and fluffy interiour will surprise you and you will hardly resist them, ones you tried one... 

INGREDIENTS (Recipe from Laura Adamache)

• 225 grams of dark chocolate (high quality)
• 60 grams of unsalted butter
• 100 grams of caster sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 225 grams of plain flour
• vanilla extract
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• Caster sugar and icing sugar for decorating

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Mix the flour, baking soda and salt. Whip the eggs with the sugar  until they get a light colour and double their volume. Melt the chocolate with the butter and when it cools, add it to the egg mixture, whip well, then add the flour mix and vanilla extract. Leave the batter for at least 3 hours in the fridge or over night. 

2. Form walnut sized balls and roll them first in caster sugar, then in icing sugar. Place them on a tray lined with baking paper. 

3. Bake them in the oven at 

170°C 

for max. 10 minutes!!! They must keep a moist center so don't overbake them. Let them cool in the tray, because they are still very fragile&soft, then place them on a plate.

4. The cracks come with the baking. 

Don't they look lovely?

xo

Have yourself a merry little Christmas...

Happy holidays!!! 
Hope you all get to spend this beautiful days with your loved ones. We couldn't make it to our homeland this year, to celebrate with the family so it's just the two of us.. even though, this Christmas is really magic...

I've been missing lately and I'm sorry my calender got interrupted... we've been a 'lil busy, so we really enjoy this peaceful days, having this festive atmosphere in the house, with Christmas Carols singing all along, candles lighting, cookies in the jars..

So this is what's been going on lately...after starting December with looooots of snow, we had a rainy, warm Christmas / my first pull-apart Cinnamon bread / soft pretzels / 'lil calender filling 

Brânzoaice or romanian sweet cheese pies / delicious home made soy latte / glitter nails / cinnamon stars

Heading to a Russian Christmas party-so much fun! / cheesecake with peach / 3rd Advent weekend / delicious veggie  "meetball" soup

And for the rest days of Christmas...


          ...obviously I baked on the last day before Christmas
                  I'm such a last-minute person..hmm...

  
   More food...some traditions must be held wherever you are: sarmale (forcemeat rolls in cabbage leaves) and our beloved smiling sandviches. When I was little, we allways had friends over for the holidays, so we made tons of sandviches like fingerfood for us, kids. The leftovers taste way better in the morning, ha ha ha!

our tiny, happy, little baby Christmas tree...it's soooo cute!!

Royal Christmas Market

Hi guys!
How have you spent your weekend? 
We visited the Royal Christmas Market at the Castle of Hohenzollern. I'm a big fan of this markets (of any kind of markets actually :p) and how we don't live that far away we made a little trip to Hechingen and visited the castle. 
As one of our lazy habits, we had big difficulties to get out so we only arrived there at 18.30 p.m. Much too late for beautiful pictures but in time for what it had to offer.

As a little pre-information I read that it was supposed to be one of Germany's nicest Weihnachtsmarkt but I wasn't that impressed. By the market. 
The castle is beautiful!!! 
We surely will go back there again, maybe for the Spring Awakening, cause you really have a gorgeous view up there. 
For history lovers, you'll find the artifacts of Prussians as it belonged to them. 
Back to our trip, we were freezing and so happy to find warm bites as pizza&fries. The smell of Glühwein only deceived us, but  in spite of the frost we spent a couple of magic ours, enjoying the festive air. 

   

    Baby's little gift of yesterdays calender

  and a last view of the magic night...

Are you a fan of Christmas markets?

We've been good!!!

Yes! We've been so good this year, that St.Nicholas came by. Yeey!!! We had a kiddy morning, ejoying our fuuull boots. 
I remember when I was little and really cleaned my boots and the joy of finding them filled... Oh, childhood is such a great period! So, why should we let it end? No way! I don't know how others are, but we are still children :). 

Seee????? We'll never grow up, ha ha ha!

Baby's been soooo good this year! 

me too!

and since I've been so lazy sleepy that night day 7 of our calender was also opened ;) 

Have a blessed rest of the weekend!!! 
xo :)

Day 4, MY DAY

Day 4 of our calender was my day. My surprise waited on the handle of the door and was a hand-made "coupon" for me from my lovely husband. I could choose how to spend the day, where I wished to eat and he even promised I could drag him in so many stores I wanted. This means a lot! Only yesterday, he told me how awfully boring he finds shopping. No matter where! And this comes  from a man who neeeeever gets bored. 
It was a perfect day, I was in the mood for chinese, and hubby didn't had to bear the shopping-torment :). 

for hubby's sake we only did some window shopping and discovered...bunnies!!?

matchy matchy :)

Hope you all had such a wonderful day! Sleep tight...