100 Happy Days – Day 1

Published on by AnitaLeave a comment

So today I am starting the 100 Happy Days challenge. Every day I’ll post a picture about one thing that made me happy, even if it was only for a moment. I hope this will help me on the rocky road toward a better me. 😉

Today’s happy moment: one of our devs at work added a cryptocat smiley to slack and we were on the same page about cats in general.

🙂

100 happy days - cat smiley

Please don’t throw egg whites away

Published on by AnitaLeave a comment

Ever found yourself throwing egg whites away as the recipe only included the yolks? Did you feel bad? You don’t have to anymore.

Here is a recipe for using them up in just 20 minutes. Baking included.

Walnut and Peach Pud

  • Servings: 2-4
  • Difficulty: very easy
  • Print

Ingredients:

– 3 egg whites

– 150 g icing sugar

– 300 g walnut

– about 10 tablespoons of peach jam

 

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 180 C degrees/fan. Whisk the eggs and the sugar in a mixing bowl until it hardens. Finely chop the walnuts in a food processor and add to the eggs. Carefully mix them together. Cover a larger baking tray with baking paper and place about 10-12 spoonfuls (using a tablespoon) on the tray. Get a teaspoon and scoop a little peach jam on top of each.

Bake for 15 minutes and leave it to cool before trying to move them onto a serving plate.

Enjoy! 

eggwhite cookieseggwhite cookies

Tenant Rights in Brussels – Chapter #2

Published on by Anita3 Comments

After 2 lawyers confirmed, that our only option is to go to court and possibly pay for a lengthy and pricy procedure, we decided to stay in our apartment. We might lose less this way.

Probably our landlord picked up some of the issue, as our heating has been fixed this week. The workmen went on the roof in pouring rain and extreme wind. I think that day was the windiest all year (just to point out, it is funny because they came twice and not finish the work because of the weather and refused an appointment for this very same reason). So they quickly became weatherproof. 🙂

We had heating for – wait for it – 4 hours. Then the newly installed furnace broke down and started leaking immense amount of water. We just laughed. I think this was the point where we just gave up.

They came the next morning and fixed it, so we have heating. They installed a furnace that decides to work automatically depending on outdoors temperature. You can control indoor temperature on the radiators themselves. Two of ours can not be controlled and are stuck in the hottest setting. So now our flat is very hot. 😀

Yesterday I came home to see workmen fixing electricity in the laundry room, and the landlord sent the yearly reading to all habitants. He came to the flat to install a separate electric meter for the furnace, but he couldn’t. So more workmen will arrive on Monday and we will have a meter. Fingers crossed.

Since the heating is on, the humidity is fairly down. We are measuring 65 – 70 percent downstairs, which is good compared to previous measures. So I decided to rearrange the flat, buy some new furniture and see how this turns out. 🙂

The cats love heating. They are on the radiators all the time, so they seem to be happy.

It has been 14 days since the girls have been spayed so Malna is finally getting rid of her little dress. Oh I have not posted pictures of my cats in dresses…

Kicsi (Xeni) hated the dress, so we had to remove it after a week. Fortunately, she did not lick the wound, so happy days so far.

Unhappy cat dress

Malna on the other hand had to wear it, whether she liked it or not, as she kept licking the wound, over and over again.

ungappy cat dressed

But we are through this as well. 🙂