Matcha smoothie

Hello sweeties! Lately I have fell in love with matcha. Matcha is japanese fine powder green tea. It has many health benefits. I gonna list some of them for you.
Health benefits of matcha:

• Boosts metabolism and burns calories
• Detoxifies effectively and naturally
• Calms and relaxes
• Enhances mood and aids in concentration
• Provides vitamin C, selenium, chromium, zinc and magnesium
• Fights against viruses and bacteria
• Is rich in fiber
• Lowers cholesterol and blood sugar
• Does not raise insulin level

I like to use it because I’ve always liked it taste. I didn’t knew about the health benefits until last weekend. But hey, it’s better late than never
Jonna’s matcha smoothie:
1 liter of turkish yoghourt
about 1-2 dl whole milk
1-2 tea spoons of matcha
small about of hot water
2 bananas
If you wanna sweeten the taste you can add teaspoonful of honey.
Mix all the above ingredients in the blender and blend until the mixture becomes smooth. You can also stir if necessary.

 

Till the next time~~

Low carb diet

Hello sweeties! 2 weeks ago I started to follow low carb diet again. Mostly because I feel much better when I don’t eat carbs.I have noticed that when I eat carbs I feel sort of puffy. I also started to go to the gym. I’m really glad that my back isn’t aching as badly as month ago. So hurrey to that!  That’s why I keep going to the gym 3 times a week. 

Anyway, I gonna share with you my low carb pizza recipe. It’s really good, personally I think it’s even better than normal pizza. And it’s super easy to make!

 

Jonna’s low carb pizza:

pizza base:

150g of mozzarella cheese

2dl curd

1 egg

3 tea spoons if wheat brans

3 tea spoons of rye flour

toppings:

ham

pepper (red, green or orange)

pine apple pieces

slices of onion (half of it)

2 tea spoons of tomato sauce

150g mozzarella cheese

sprinkled oregano

 

Preheat the oven to 200C. Mix mozzarella, curd, wheat brans, rye flours and egg. Make base of the dough and put it on the oven for 10 minutes. After that add the toppings on the base and put pizza back on the oven for 10-15 minutes.

Enjoy!

 

If you are interested to know more low carb recipes let me know!

 

Until the next time~~

Paddington-what a cute bear!

Hello sweeties! I had a day off from work today and coz I didn’t had any plans for the day I decided to go to see a movie. I saw  Paddington ( <- see the trailer) is running on local cinema as original version. Perfect! I really can’t what dubbed movies, there’s always something missing when film is dubbed. Besides on Paddington one of the actors was amazing Peter Capaldi. Some of you might know him as twelfth Doctor. Anyhow, I liked a lot Paddington. It was very funny movie with some of best actors in UK at the moment. Like Hugh Bonneville from Downton Abbey.
Here is a little about the movie; A young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kindly Brown family, who read the label around his neck (‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’) and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.

I think Paddingto is a bit like me. I also love pretty much everything British. Especially the accent. It’s so….hot. Well, Scottish accent, to be precise. I have always liked more British English than American English coz British English sounds prettier, sophisticated and to be honest more intelligent. Not so into marmelade yet but I do love British biscuits with cup of tea.
O yes! I finally got the wellies that I won on Chill Out! wine’s competition. Hurrey! And the color is yellow as I hoped. I so gonna hear that I own hipster wellies but hey so what! I like them. That should be the main thing, not what other people think of my wellies

 

Alright! That’s all for now. I’m off to make delicious Baileys coffee and read a book.

Till the next time~~

Traditional dresses

Hei! Hello!Hallo! こんにちは!
Today I gonna write a little about traditional dresses. I think them are beautiful and they tell a lot about the country. Unfortenally I don’t own Finnish traditional dress yet, but it’s my dream to own one someday. But I do own yukata (from Japan) and dirndl (from Germany) As some of you already know I am interested of both countries so it’s not a suprise if I own something from both countries   First I gonna talk a little about dirndl, and then yukata.

Dirndl
A dirndl is  traditional dress worn in Germany – especially Bavaria, but also in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and South Tyrol, based on the historical costume of Alpine peasants.).A dirndl skirt generally describes a light circular cut dress, gathered at the waist, that falls below the knee.
The dirndl consists of a bodice, blouse, full skirt and apron.
The dirndl is mostly worn in Bavaria and Austria. It is used as an everyday dress primarily by older women in rural areas. Other women may wear it at formal occasions  and during certain traditional events. It is hugely popular also among young women at the Oktoberfest ( I  love to go in Oktoberfest some year so I could wear my dirndl in there and drink beer, haha)  in München (and similar festivals).

 

 

Yukata (浴衣)
A yukata  is a Japanese garment, a casual summer kimono usually made of cotton or synthetic fabric, and unlined. Traditionally yukata were mostly made of indigo-dyed cotton but today a wide variety of colors and designs are available. As with kimono, the general rule with yukata is that younger people wear bright, vivid colors and bold patterns, while older people wear dark, matured colors and dull patterns. A child may wear a multicolored print and a young woman may wear a floral print, while an older woman would confine herself to a traditional dark blue with geometric patterns. Men in general may wear solid dark colors. Yukata are worn at outdoor summer events such as hanabi (fireworks) festival.  Yukata are also worn at Japanese inns ryokan after bathing

O my, both photos of me are quite old. I’m glad that I found them on my laptop. Anyhow, I love to have a new apron with my dirndl. I also like to have tsuke obi. Tsuke obi ( 付け帯) or tsukuri obi (作り帯) is any ready-tied obi. It often has a separate, cardboard-supported knot piece and a piece that is wrapped around the waist. The tsuke obi is fastened in place by ribbons. And I like to have coz it is easy to wear with yukata.
Till next time~~

München

Grüße aus München! I’m back at home and finally I have time to share about my absolutely fantastic trip in München. I arrived in München on Thurday afternoon. It was quite late when I was at the hotel so on Thursday I just walked to the city centre to see what it is like. People were preparing the Christmas market. On Marienplazt was lovely Christmas tree.
On Friday I met my friend from Hamburg. I met her first time in München. I was a bit worried will I find her in Marienplazt and how she is in person but she was very lovely person. We had fun day walking around the city. We also did a little shopping. I bought lots of FC Bayern München mercharndise, like a new hat for the winter and Christmas calender ( I got Philipp Lahm today) and lots more…  On evening we had warm cup of yummy Glühwein with rum and later on evening we went to famous beerhouse in München and I had a 1 liter of beer. Yummy!

 

This photo is taken at Isir river. Very lovely area to have a walk. 

 



 

 

It's time for Glühwein!

 

 

On Saturday morning I woke up early coz I had to catch 7:53am train to Füssen. On train I met this lovely girl from Hong Kong. We talked and talked and decided to spend the day together in Füssen and Neuschwanstein. Neuschwanstein is one the most pretties places I have ever seen and been to. I warmly recommend everybody to visit there.  On Sunday I went to Dachau with my a new friend from Hong Kong. We visited in Dachau concentration camp which was pretty creepy place to be.

To me visiting in around Bavaria was a prefect Holiday and I wanna visit there again some day!

 

Neuschwanstein  castle from Marienbrücke.

Candle holders

I made candle holders of glass jars a few days ago. Now I gonna tell you how I made them. It’s quite simple, but a bit messy. So make sure that you have an old magazine or paper on the table when you’re making the candle holders. So let’s get started.

 

To make candle holders you need glass jars, glitter powder and waterbase sealer. You also gonna need some kind of sponge or brush and lid of glass jar(s)

  First you need to wash the glass jar(s).  Make sure that there’s no glue stains on the glass. The result won’t look pretty if there’s any glue stains on the glass jar. When you have a clean glass jar you are ready to decorate it. Now you gonna need the waterbase sealer and glitter powder. I used golden and white one.

 

I put waterbase sealer on lid of the glass jar. I painted the glass jar with the water base sealer by using sponge. Then I sprinkled glitter powder all over the glass jar. I let it dry for 2 hours and then I painted it again with waterbase sealer. You don’t have to paint it again after drying but I strongly recommed it coz otherwise you will have glitter all over your house.

 

And this was the result:

And white one, I think it looks a bit like snowflakes on the window

When white candle holder was dry I wrapped hemp string around the collum for a 4-5 time and then I made a bow.  I gonna give the white one as Christmas present. I think selfmade candle holders are a new idea as Christmas present. And it’s also very simple way to decorate your own house.

 

If you have any questions about how to make candle holders of glass jars just asks me. And if you’re interested other ways to decorate glass jars, then ask again. I have a few other ways to decorate them too. Also very easy ones and less messy than using the glitter.

 

Till next time~~~