style: head bands

We've seen them a lot more lately and I feel happy about that. Dolce and Gabbana and many more used head bands on their models for their spring-summer 2013 collection. Why not? A classic stable and so comfortable to use, like on bad hair days. Get ideas from the images and start using head bands! 

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baking: simple version of baby-ruth cake

Gunnar Sverrisson / Home and Delicious

I was flipping though my old recipes and felt the urge to bake this cake last weekend. It's a great recipe and so simple to make. And I was surprised that my daughters really liked it. It's soft but crunchy and a good idea for a picnic-cake.

cake:

3 egg whites

2 dl sugar

1 tsp baking powder

20 Ritz-crackers

100 g peanuts

frosting:

50 g butter

50g chocolate

50 g powdered sugar

2 egg yolks

Preheat oven 200°C. Whisk together egg whites and sugar until light and fluffy. Put the crackers and peanuts in a food processor and process quite well, but your choice how much. Put into the whites, slowly, and blend very well. Put the mixture into 24 cm baking tin, lined with baking paper. Put in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes, not too much please! Melt the butter and chocolate for the frosting. Cool a bit. Stir the yolks and sugar together until light and airy. Mix together and spread on the cake. Serve with afternoon tea or as a desert, with whipped cream or whatever.

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remain simple / kiyoaki / a note on design / 

her life is her canvas / this is glamorous

design: new stockholm collection from ikea

Design in each detail, quality materials, "unique" pieces, new ways in design. This is a description of the new Stockholm collection from Ikea which is now in stores world wide. Furniture and accessories, great solutions, for the living room, dining room and bedroom. But notice – the products are made to decorate any room of the home. Multifunctional qualities make the collection unique and distinctive where products are designed to mix and match.

Materials used are soft but strong, easy to use, nice to touch with a pleasant texture. Walnut in chocolate brown colour in furniture, high quality leather in sofas and bone china in dinnerware. Pieces that lasts and become more beautiful with age. Inherit from one generation to another.

The details play the main role in the Stockholm collection. The senior collection did more out of matching and combinations. Now the design is more focused on single pieces, stand out pieces, that you can use together, mix with completely different kind of furniture, create a personal style of your own.

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food: asparagus, parma ham and hollandaise-sauce

Gunnar Sverrisson / Home and Delicious

I will never get tired of phrasing the fresh asparagus. Beautiful and healthy food, so no one can doubt it. Its also very versatile although the simple way of cooking it; boiling and serve with pan fried egg, butter and parmesan, is a classic and dangerously easy to cook. But when fallen in the group of asparagus fans you are eager to use this vegetable in other ways as well with fish and meat, pasta and risotto. This time I serve it a bit more "juicy"; with parma ham and hollandaise-sauce. A no failure combo of salty and buttery, smoothness and freshness.  

asparagus:

It fits using 12-14 asparagus stalks. Cut the ends of the asparagus. I prefer boiling the asparagus first for around 5 minutes. Then remove from the pot and cool under cold water. Drain. One slice of parma ham is used for every two stalks of the asparagus, roll up around the middle. Place the asparagus on a baking tray and cook in 200°C oven for 5-8 minutes or until the ham is a bit crispy. 

hollandaise-sósa:

For me that's the easy way of making hollandaise-sauce or a bernaise, in a blender. Light and fluffy, soft and buttery. 

2 egg yolks

1 tbs white wine vinegar

200 g melted butter

1 tbs water or 1 tbs stock

1 tbs tarragon

Melt the butter and add the water or stock and tarragon. Put the egg yolks and vinegar in a blender, to medium or high speed, until it lightens in colour, 30 seconds. Doing this, it introduce a little air into the yolks and makes them more fluffy and lighter. Turn the blender down to the lowest setting and drizzle the melted butter slowly in, while the blender is going. Continue to buzz for some seconds more until the butter is all incorporated. Turn off the blender and serve with the asparagus. Enjoy. 

10 spaces – outdoor and great ideas

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Outdoor spaces to seek some great, useful, different, diy, cozy, simple, irresistible, stand out ideas. 

For your balconies, veranda, cottage, cabin, summer house, holiday home. 

Easy to execute. Easier to enjoy. 

While the summer lasts.

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design: hot industrial coat racks

One of the things I really like in my apartment is the coat/clothes rack in my bedroom. Of course you can also use it for your coats in the hallway and it doesn't hurt to have some nice clothes to hang on it. I really like the industrial ones because it makes a beautiful contrast to the clothes. These coat racks are from all around. One of my favourites is the Tati coat rack, the one with the hat and the one with the white T-shirts on from Bodie and Fou.  

–Elín Hrund

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