Essence 50's girls reloaded

Essence has made a really cool limited edition line named 50's girls reloaded. the line includes: a face powder, eyeshadow, nailpolish, lipstick, eyeshadowbrush and eyepencils.

When I went to the drugstore, there was not much left so i took what i could take :)
This is what i bought:



Two gorgeous nailpolishes


you're a heartbreaker


love me tender

a really lovely lipstick named: back to the 50’s


eyeshadow with a really good pigment and nice colors. It's a duo eyeshadow with a mirror in the box





you’re a heartbreaker

I also bought the translucent powder as you can see in the first picture.

Ragu a la Bolognese how to

Cooking is my biggest hobby. It started when I was six years old with cooking classes at the local community center. My love for cooking never went away. I cook a lot. From easy meals to difficult chef dishes, I like them all. One of my favourites is the Ragu Bolognese.




This is a traditional pastadish from Italy. Ragu bolognese is just not a sauce. Not like when youre pasta is done youre sauce is also, or add al kinds of veggies and more stuff to the sauce and name it bolognese. So forget about that Bolgonese dishes that are ready in 30 minutes. Thats not possible at all. And sad for al those good flavours.

So well, here's my recipe with pictures.


You will need (for about 6 servings):

500 gr lean minced beef meat
250 gr spek/bacon finely chopped( i used the on for sauerkraut)( actually you need to use pancetta)
500 ml Beef stock
150 ml white wine (middle dry) or red if you prefer a more robust flavor
2 cans of tomato cubes
2 carrots finely chopped
2 celery stalks finely chopped
2 unions finely chopped
2 garlic gloves crushed withe the garlic press
2 little cans of tomato paste
olive oil
bit of milk (100 ml)
salt
peper
nutmeg
Tagliatelle (100 grams for each person)
fresh graded Parmesan cheese



How to make it.

First Boil water for your stock. Put in the stock cubes and let it melt. Chop the oinons, carrots and celery. You can use a food processor for that. Also cut the bacon into little pieces.



Heat up a big pot and pour in olive oil. Saute the onion and garlic.
Add the bacon, stir well and let it cook for about 5 minutes.



Put in the celery and carrots let it cook for about 5 minutes again and take the mixture out of the pot, put it in a bowl.





Now put the minced meat in the pan stir and cook until done. Add the mixture and the wine. Reduce the wine until almost nothing is left.



Stir in the tomato paste mix well. Now add the tomato cubes and bouillon, stir well. Add the milk bit by bit until all of it been taken up by the rest of the ingredients.
That's it for now.



Put the lid on the pot. Do not close the pan at all. but just half. Turn the heat to middle low. And let it simmer for at least 2 and half hours. More is always better. I prefer four until six hours. Do not forget to check up once in a while. Also stir it.




When the dish is almost finished, like in there is a quarter of the last hour left, start cooking your pasta.

It is time now to add the seasoning to your bolognese. Just add salt, pepper and nutmeg to it.

The reason to season when it is almost finished is because of the sauce is that much reduced after long cooking it already has strong flavors by itself.

Put the Tagliatelle on the plate, put the ragu on top, add parmesan cheese.

I hope you enjoyed making your own Bolognese.

all I have to say left,

Bon Appetit

Just some pictures

These pictures are made with vignette, that's an app. for the android phone.. With this app. you can add effects to your pictures like Holga, Diana, Polaroid and retro. These pictures are made with Diana style. Except for the black and white picture. That one is Holga-style.

Flowers By night

Some lovely pink flowers in my garden. It is a brier

Testing the I love Berlin eyeliner

I one of my latest posts I just talked about the amazing jar of the eyeliner. Now it is time to try it.
I will do a short review of it.

The color of this glittering black eyeliner is called, 04 Berlin Story. I actually never use brush eyeliners because I always thought it was very hard. But I must say, with a little bit of practice I get better and better when I us it.

This is on the hand. To show the color. The line on my hand is thicker than the brush gives. I made it ticker just for the photo. As you can see the glittering in the eyeliner is almost not visible. But the eyeliner has subtle silver coloured sparkles in it.



On the eye itself the eyeliner does not smudge. When practicing, I found out, the less eyeliner you put on the brush the better it goes. With more it will run trough the eyelashes because it does not dries very quick.

This is how it looks on my eyes. It does not look very neat. It is only to show how it looks.




Because of this eyeliner was one from a limited edition line, you probably will not find it anymore. BUT Essence just brought out a new line of eyeliners named glam liner. this glam liners also have the little sparkles that the I love Berlin eyeliner has.

You can find them here Essence Glam liner

Faking it!

I've always got long hair. I was wondering how short hair would look like on me. So I made a faux bob. The result:


So tell me, what do you think?

A bit of orange for queensday

Every year on the 30th of April we celebrate the birthday of the Dutch queen. Since orange is the color of Holland and our Royal family, I decided to go for some orange color on my nails.



This one is from HEMA. It is a pearly orange with tiny sparkles. I think it is a nice orange color that is also wearable on other days then queensday or the football worldcup :)