The Flowery Skirt

Outfit of the day

Brooch - from the Sunday market

Dress - from a shop that sells clothes from Nepal, and it is long enough! Oh, the happiness!

Cardigan - Mango Basics

Shoes - Roberto

Dear Burda...

I'm not buying the October issue either.

And I am not happy with that, but the few things I would sew can already be found in the old issues I own.

Well, money gained.

I will buy some fabric.

Juha od tikve - recept/ Pumpkin soup - the recipe/ Minestra vellutata di zucca - la ricetta

Let's try again now. Hopefully the post won't disappear today.

I made up this recipe for a really tasty and aromatic soup. The pumpkin I used was green with sweet orange meat.

Ingredients for two:

- 250 gr pumpkin - frozen or cooked till soft, and then mixed

- parsley - chopped

- 1 medium size onion - better if red, finely chopped

- 1 spoon flour

- 0,5 l water

- 1 buillon cube -I used chicken

- salt, pepper, curry, allspice

- milk, sour cream

Cook the chopped onion in some oil and butter until soft. Add the pumpkin, parsley, 250 ml water and cook for 15 minutes. In a small bowl mix the flour and spice, dilute with the remaining water and add the mixture to the pumpkin. Add the buillon cube. Cook until dense. You can correct the density by letting the liquid evaporate to get it thicker or thinning it by adding milk (soya milk will also do) and sour cream.

Serve the soup warm as is or with croutons. Bon appetit!

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Pokušat ću opet. Možda danas ne nestane cijeli post. Stvarno ne razumijem šta se dogodilo.

No, vratimo se sad na recept za juhicu od tikve koju sam smislila, ukusnu i mirisnu, jednostavno za ne propustiti.

Tikva je bila jedna od onih zelenih sa slatkim narančastim mesom.

Za dvije osobe:

- oko 250 gr tikve - odmrznute ili skuhane da smekša, pa izmiksane u kašicu

- peršina - sitno nasjeckanog

- 1 luk srednje veličine - bolje ako je ljubičasti, sitno nasjeckan

- 1 velika žlica brašna

- 0,5 l vode

- 1 kocka za juhu - ja sam koristila kokošju

- curry, piment, sol, papar

- mlijeko, kiselo vrhnje

Popirjajte luk na malo ulja i maslaca dok ne požuti i smekša. Dodajte tikvu i peršin, 250 ml vode i kuhajte 15 minuta. U zdjelici pomješajte brašno, začine po ukusu, umješajte preostalu vodu i sve skupa ulijte u lonac s juhicom, dodajte i kocku. Prokuhajte dok se ne zgusne. Gustoću možete regulirati dodatnim kuhanjem dok se ne zgusne ili dodavanjem mlijeka (može is ojinog) ili vrhnja da se razrijedi.

Servirajte toplu juhicu samu ili uz preprženi kruh. Dobar tek!

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Ecco che ci riprovo. Speriamo che oggi il mio post non svanisca nel nulla. Non riesco a capire cosa sia successo.

Ecco allora la ricetta per la gustosissima e profumatissima minestra di zucca che ho inventato ieri. Veramente da provare. Ho usato una fetta di zucca di quelle verdi con polpa dolce arancione.

Per due persone ci vogliono:

- 250 gr di zucca - scongelata o cotta e poi passata

- prezzemolo tritato

- 1 cipolla di media grandezza - meglio se scalogno, tritato finemente

- 1 cucchiaio grande di farina

- 250 ml di acqua

- 1 dado per brodo - io ho usato quello di gallina

- sale, pepe, curry, pimento

- latte, panna acida

Disfriggete la cipolla ben tritata in poco olio e burro. Aggiungete la zucca, il prezzemolo e 250 ml di acqua. Cucinate per 15 minuti. In una ciotola aggiungete la farina e le spezie e diluite con l'acqua rimasta. Versate il tutto in pentola con la zucca, aggiungete il dado e cucinate finche' si addensa. Potete regolare la densita'  facendo evaporare il liquido o aggiungendo latte (anche di soia)e panna acida.

Servite la minestra calda, da sola o con crostini di pane. Buon appetito!

What?

So, here I was happily typing my recipe post and all the sudden, when I was half the way through...it disappeared!!! Aaargh!

I just cannot figure out what I did wrong.

Juha od tikve / Pumpkin soup / Minestra vellutata di zucca

I made this up. Let me just translate the recipe and I will post it here.

I have been asked...

...to blog in Croatian because not everyone speaks English. So, I decided that  while I'm at it I would also put some Italian in.

Is this ok?

Yay for multilingual blogs! :-))

Russian neckline dress

I just love Paisley patterns, so when I saw this dress at the Sunday market - it had to be mine. In addition to that it is red and gold! Who would resist to the added sparkle?

The dress was from the 80's judging from the stile. Enormous, bell shaped, and the sleeves were long to the elbow.

After narrowing it a lot and making cap sleeves, this is the result:

I like the neck line a lot, the ruffles and the little buttons. I hope you can see them.

Unfortunately, the fabric keeps you too warm to be worn in summer, and the dress is too short to be worn without tights in autumn. I opted for the tunic-dress variation.

Looked good, but too much black. Need to find a lighter combination.

Pillowcase dress for my niece -WR

Cleaning the shelves results often in useful finds. The pillowcase was ripped and called for a refashion.

I wanted to make a dress for my niece, but not shirred. The pattern I used can be worn later as a top. Well, it's autumn.

Additional white beads, button and crocheted circle - from stash, of course.

Ciao!

Barbara

Minestra con polenta

Stripey top

Another small recycling-refashioning project. The pattern is from Burda if I remember correctly. Everything else was found around the house,scraps and pieces, including the straps from an old bra.

You can see that I keep things to use them another time,oh yes.

I also made the flower brooch embellishment. Cute.It looks much better this way. Loove flowers!