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MY WEEKLY DIARY #5 | GLUTENFREE FOOD | BALCONY GARDEN PLANS | QUICK TRIP TO NAZARÉ



Glutenfree dinners, pastries and more. How will i gardening without a garden? We were looking for winter flowers by the ocean ended up in Nazaré.

there’s a tapas bar in Budapest and we had  a date night there once second time we went   there on purpose because we just loved that  food on the first date and since then time  

To time I just recreate the menu we usually  had and I call it date night dinner so it is   tenderloin on an onion bed actually with whole  Peppers salt garlic powder and originally it has   melted cheese on the top but because I use  cheese on other part of the menu I skipped

It okay let’s see the next little mushroom heads  cooked in red wine spices of course and very   important part is the chopped parsley  what just puts every food to the next level sweet paprikas grilled on olive  oil and I forgot to make a video about  

It but this is where I put the cheese  I mean use the cheese when the paprikas   are ready we just put the cheese  on the top and it will melt right away you know I always try to be creative  about these side dishes that we don’t eat  

Always potatoes or rice so sometimes I make  some kind of dinner rolls what we usually   don’t have for breakfast for example this time  I made baguettes as we always ate baguettes at   the tapasbar so last but not least these  melted sheep cheese got some walnuts and  

There was a phase in my childhood when I ate  melted sheep cheese on bread for every single   dinner and I always read the garfield the  cat comic book with it funny memories huh   so my glutenfree baguetts turned out so well  and however this dish is not the quickest and  

Simplest one sometimes it’s good to make something  special even without any special occasion am I right usually I make pizza every Friday but this  time my older boy asked me to try something new   and he mentioned that we could try pizza rolls  so I gave it a try you know glutenfree um dough  

Is very sensitive and harder to manage moving  before baking but it worth the work because look   it looks so good and it tasted so good and you  know for pizza always make some kind of salad or  

At least I just eat simple green sald with some  salad dressing because it’s very good for your   health you know it’s Carnival season which means  baking Doughnuts in my home country and around us   in our neighbor countries it’s very common to Bake  Donuts but not the American ones with the hole in  

The middle but this fluffy sometimes it’s filled  with jams puddings or other stuff and of course   of course it wasn’t a simple donut baking time  for me because I wanted to try new gluten-free   versions because it really it really is good  when it’s fluffy and with glutenfree flours  

It’s uh harder to achieve that consistency and  one of the things that I learned that is very   important to bake the perfect donuts is for  example um a certain temperature for the oil   it shouldn’t be very hot because it will burn the  outside surface and the inside it will be still  

Raw and the other thing is to put lid onto the  pan for the first 2 minutes and yes I succeeded   so my first traditional glutenfree Donuts turn  out so good one with peach jam and the other  

Is with chocolate glaze can’t stop once stop I  made other Donuts as well though it is not the   traditional one it has Apple sauce in the dough I  think I can tell that this is our favorite type of  

Donut it is sweet and sour at the same time so if  you bake gluten-free it is a very good option and version pie salty savory pies I make it at least  once a month as well and this time I thought to  

Try something new you know what is a pie but  it’s not that big round pie what you have to   slice up never tried make handy pies and um we are  so blessed that here in Portugal we can have store  

Bought glutenfree puff pastry I know there are  lot of recipes on the internet but to be honest   I have so many things already on my plate pun  intended I’m so glad when I just can pull out  

Something from the fridge and I can make a quick  and uh nutritious dinner for my family so as you   can see I just made a béchamel type of filling  with ham egg and cheese and I made these little  

Cute squares and boys loved it and they said it  is much more better you know than the big circle pie and as usual I had some salad as well it’s  called Sicilian salad and unfortunately I run out   of Purple Onion because this is the authentic  ingredient and I added some green leaves as

Well I am trying experimenting for  years now to be able to make good uh   fluffy delicious gluten-free pastries  because you know I could buy whatever   flour mix in the store but I don’t want  to put unnecessary things into my food  

You know as I said gluten-free flours are  very hard to deal with so you can imagine   how over the moon I was when finally I could  make this wonderful bread rolls cheesy bread rolls you know it’s such a hard phase when you are full  of IDeas but you can’t start these projects and  

Make these Ideas alive because um you know #budget  I always try to use this time for good so planning   everything from A to Z when time comes and the  money hits the bank account you know I just have  

To hit the order button and go and get grab things  what I need so what are we planning here right now   if you have seen my other videos you know that  I’m a farmer girl like I used to be and I will  

Be you know this is the in between times when  we are looking for our forever farm and right   now I don’t have any garden and although we want  to move from here uh next summer there’s no way   that I don’t plant anything until next summer  because I already missed the whole 2023 because  

Of moving and I am missing it so much this will be  my very first time that I am experiencing balcony   gardening and you may think that oh it is so much  easier to to plan for such a short time but not  

It is so much harder especially because I have to  think about to be able to move my future plants   the easiest way want to have um a lounge area in  this uh big balcony a comfy sitting area and all  

The plants what loves and need direct Sunshine  what we are really brainstorming about is that   um how to put this little house what you have  seen because we didn’t buy it it is very good  

For storage but if I’d buy it I wouldn’t put  it here on on the balcony and so my husband   came with the idea to bring it down next to the  car and with it my Pottery area and the compost  

Area would be down next to the car where it is  kind of shady this is what compost and potting   area need so we can have all this balcony for  ourselves and for our ideas I have been always  

Planting on big area so it is kind of hard for  me to manage um planning plans planning plans   for such a little place so so I will using  every little inch available and I will be   focusing on vertical planting clumping planting  and multisowing also this is a weird balcony  

What faces totally south it will be very good for  the sunlover plants and I’m planning to have some   flowers here as well because it is totally glass  so I can see it all the time and it will make me happy

I wanted to see the typical uh wintery  scene by the ocean where what is said   to have wonderful red and yellow flowers  what only grows this time unfortunately   when we went to the wrong place but we  ended up at South nazare what was just  

Wonderful the weather was glorious sand  was warm thanks to the unusual mild and   warm January and as we were driving home from  the south part to the north part we saw that   what wonderful opportunities are there so  we definitely will come back for a whole day

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