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October 26, 2020

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I am Cristina - a Lisbon based Romanian writer in love with Victorian novels, comfort food and foreign lands.

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Bucharest - love it/hate it/never been? I´m curre

Bucharest - love it/hate it/never been? I´m currently working on a blog post that I hope to publish next week, going into five spots I love in Bucharest, a city I used to hate. Do you have some own favourite spots in Bucharest? Share them in the comments for the ones who haven´t been yet to add to their to see lists. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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*In this picture, I stand in front of Martisor, the memorial house of poet Tudor Arghezi, secretly tucked away in the very centre of the city.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#romania #bucharest #bucuresti #visitromania #visitbucharest #wanderlust #travel #instatravel #travelgram #home #romanian #streetstyle #summer #sunny #travelblog #travelblogger #smile #camera #photographer #photography #ootd #andotherstories #tudorarghezi #martisor #martisorbucuresti #sunny #summer #prada #saintlaurant #ysl

Apricot jam and cream cheese cake, anyone? 🍑 I

Apricot jam and cream cheese cake, anyone? 🍑
I received a care package with the most delicious apricot jam from @dealurileuilei and I simply couldn´t resist using it for this beauty of a cake. Curious? Here´s the recipe:

Ingredients

200g Philadelphia cheese
200g cream
110g honey
200g apricot jam
260g digestive cookies
80g melted butter
an apricot or half a nectarine or peach (for decoration)

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees while you´re blending the digestive cookies and mixing them with the melted (!) butter and 30g of the honey until they are completely homogeneous. 2. Butter a tart tray and then press the digestive cookie mix firmly and evenly into it, so that you have a solid base for your cake. 3. Bake for 15 minutes and let cool completely. 4. While the base is cooking, prepare the cream by beating the cream first, then adding the Philadelphia cheese and beating some more and finally adding the remainder of the honey (80g of it). Let the cream cool in the fridge for about an hour. 5. Once the base of the cake is cool and the cream has sat in the fridge for the full hour, add half of the cream on top of the base, spreading evenly, and then the apricot jam on top. Finally, add the remaining half of the cream on top of the jam layer, mixing slightly as to give the cream the apricot colouring. 6. Decorate with apricot or nectarine slices and edible flowers.

#dealurileuilei #romania #homemade #homebaked #dessert #apricot #apricotcake #cake #cheesecake #blackberries #fruitcake #sugar #sweet #sweets #foodporn #foodie #instafood #foodgram #nextbestfoodie #foodblogger #foodblog #foodphotography #foodstylingandphotography #foodstyling #romanianchef #choiceofmagic #vegetarian

Raise your hand if you´re also a sucker for prett

Raise your hand if you´re also a sucker for pretty book covers. I admit it would have been highly unlikely that I´d buy this book if it wasn´t for its cover and intriguing name. But even though I haven´t properly started it yet, it seems like a fantastic briefing on the complicated relationship between china, Korea and Japan, so I can´t wait to surpass this phase of only reading fiction and starting this one. 📚 How about you? Are you more of a fiction or non-fiction fan? ✨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#bookstoread #whattoreadnext #bookrecs #bookstack #moodreader #personallibrary #bookfriends #bookdesires #bookphotography #bookaesthetic #bibliophile #alwaysreading #booklover #bookpeople #bookcommunity #bookish #BeautifulBooks #booksaremagic #bookworm #fortheloveofbooks #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #bookstagram #nonfiction #asia #china #korea #japan #politics #michaelbooth

Creamy curry risotto with chicken, apples and waln

Creamy curry risotto with chicken, apples and walnuts, anyone? I am now adding this risotto recipe to my favourite autumn risottos and you absolutely have to do it, too! Here´s the recipe (find it also on the blog):⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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200g risotto rice⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
400g chicken breast cut in little cubes⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
one onion⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
two apples⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
250g walnuts⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
a tbsp butter⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
100ml white wine⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
2 Knorr cubes⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
50g curry paste⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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1. Chop the onion finely and add it to a bigger pot along with two tbsp of olive oil. Fry until slightly golden, then add the rice and fry for two minutes, mixing continuously. 2. Add the white wine to the rice, stirring as it evaporates – this should take some two minutes tops. 3. Add enough of the boiling water to cover the rice, and then the Knorr cubes and stir as the water evaporates. 4. Keep doing the same thing with the remainder of the water, and as you add the last bit, add the butter, stirring to homogenise it and finally add the curry paste too. 5. While this whole matter unfolds you´ll want to blend the walnuts into an almost powder, and fry the chicken cubes into a tablespoon of olive oil until slightly golden. 6. Once the risotto has absorbed almost all the liquid (it needs to still be plenty creamy), add the blended walnuts, fried chicken cubes and finally the apples cut in cubes, mix and serve with a couple more apple slices for decoration.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#homemade #foodporn #foodie #instafood #foodgram #nextbestfoodie #foodblogger #foodblog #foodphotography #foodstylingandphotography #foodstyling #romanianchef #choiceofmagic #risotto #italian #italianfood #italianrecipe #chickenrisotto #curry #curryrisotto #apples #autumn #fall #autumnrecipe #comfortfood #walnuts #fallflavours #poemi #sibiu #transylvania

Ever been deceived by filter excessive Instagram o

Ever been deceived by filter excessive Instagram or Pinterest pictures? If so, come here buddy, and let me tell you about my trip to Mallorca. And yes, I might have slightly deceived you with the last autumn-y recipe, but truth is I am not ready to say goodbye to summer and as such just published the article "Mallorca - 7 Things I Loved and 7 Things I Hated". Mallorca was so surprising (and not always in a good sense) that coming back, I didn´t feel like writing a simple guide for you all, and instead wanted to tell you about what I loved and hated about the island. Find the article on the blog and the link in bio for the next couple of days. 🏝 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And tell me - what´s the place you vacationed in that most disappointed you? ✈️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#mallorca #balearicislands #spain #spanishisland #isla #tramuntana #unesco #mountains #wanderlust #travel #instatravel #travelgram #vacationoutfit #summeroutfit #summer #sunny #travelblog #travelblogger #smile #camera #photographer #photography #ootd #zaraoutfit #zara #blue #landscape #visitspain

It might not look like much, but wait until you tr

It might not look like much, but wait until you try this zucchini and pea soup with a touch of pesto. It is DI-VI-NE. And perfect for the autumn that lurks in the shadows. Who am I kidding though? It´s full on summer in Portugal and that´s probably why I added the fresh pesto touch to this #homemadeMonday inspired by Ottolenghi. 🥒🍵🌿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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two tsp salt⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
two tsp pepper⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
two veggie Knorr cubes⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
a tsp lemon zest⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
100g feta cheese⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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1. Peel the zucchinis and cut them in about 1cm slices while you´re frying the peeled garlic cloves for three minutes in a large pan with a tablespoon of olive oil. 2. Add the zucchinis to the pan and season with the salt and pepper, frying for about five minutes or until they soften a little bit. Next, add the chopped green onion and fry for another two minutes. 3. Transfer the fried veggies to a larger pot along with a tablespoon of olive oil, fry for another two minutes on medium heat and then add a litre of boiling water, along with the Knorr cubes. 4. Boil for ten minutes, then add the peas, the basil leaves and the pesto, and let boil for another minute. 5. Remove from the heat and blend with a vertical blender. 6. When serving, sprinkle some feta cheese on top, add some lemon zest and drizzle with truffle oil.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#homemade #foodporn #foodie #instafood #foodgram #nextbestfoodie #foodblogger #foodblog #foodphotography #foodstylingandphotography #foodstyling #choiceofmagic #autumn #fall #soup #creamysoup #zucchini #peas #vegan #vegetarian #vegetariandish #healthyfood #healthylunch #vegandish #green #greenfood #autumndish #baguette

Tell me about the book that marked your childhood.

Tell me about the book that marked your childhood. 👧🏼👦🏻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I have two. Beauty and the Beast, that my grandma read to me so many times I learned it by heart and used it as the basis to teach myself how to read. And La Medeleni, a Romanian classic. La Medeleni was written in the 1920s and is the story of the idealised childhood of three friends: Danut, Olguta and Monica. Fun fact: my first name is Monica and I was named so because of this book. Albeit its partially tragic ending, I loved La Medeleni so much that I´ve been obsessed lately to find the exact editions I had read it in. Finally, I found them in an online old bookstore and brought them over to Portugal to read, and re-read and hopefully one day share them with my children.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Pizza with Chevre, Arugula and Peanuts 🍕 ⠀⠀

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And before you tell me peanuts on a pizza sound weird, let me just stop you there. This pizza flavour is seriously one of the best ones I´ve ever tried. Nothing new about combining chevre with honey and even arugula. The innovation here comes from replacing the traditional tomato sauce on the base of the pizza with (wait for iiiiiiit) *fajita sauce*. Genius or idiotic, I don´t know. But I swear by it. And then the crushed peanuts on top - omg. Don´t even ask me how we came up with this combo, part of it was a fortunate accident, part just sheer madness. But it works. And you need to try it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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a store bought pizza dough of aprox. 260g (if you´re feeling lazy)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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1. Pre-heat the oven at 200 degrees, or following the pizza dough package instructions. 2. Spread the fajita sauce over the pizza dough and then sprinkle the grated mozzarella over it. 3. Slice the chevre cheese in 0.5 cm slices and arrange them over the mozzarella, finally sprinkling the half crushed peanuts over it. 4. Bake for about 15 min, or according to package instructions. 5. Drizzle the honey on top and finally decorate with the arugula.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Currently enjoying the prolonged Portuguese summer while staring at this picture from two weeks ago, when I had to temporarily transition to my fall wardrobe. The picture was taken in my hometown of Sibiu, in front of my old school, the 641 year old Samuel von Brukenthal Gymnasium. I sincerely wanted to write a post about what to do for a weekend in Sibiu but the weather was partially so moody and most of my pictures so bad, that I stopped documenting the trip and will try again next time I am there. In the meantime tell me - have you been to Sibiu? If not, would you like to go? I’m thinking of a small giveaway to make your visit there nicer. 🎁 🧳 🦔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#romania #sibiu #piatahuet #transylvania #brukenthal #samuelvonbrukenthal #visitromania #visitsibiu #hermannstadt #wanderlust #travel #instatravel #travelgram #home #romanian #streetstyle #summer #sunny #travelblog #travelblogger #smile #camera #photographer #photography #ootd #zaraoutfit #zara

Any shrimp lovers out there? 🦐 The best meal we

Any shrimp lovers out there? 🦐 The best meal we had while in Mallorca was at the @belmondlaresidencia and their shrimp cooked for three minutes on a bed of salt, at maximum heat was definitely the most impressive. So I shamelessly copied it and put the recipe on the blog. Sorry, not sorry. 🙈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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500g unpeeled shrimp⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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1. Peel and devein the shrimp while you´re pre-heating the oven at 250 degrees. Wash it. 2. In an oven safe tray, spread out the salt (depending on the size of the tray, you might need more or less salt – the idea is for the layer to be about one finger thick). 3. Lay out the shrimp on the salt, belly down, and slightly distanced from each other so they don´t stick and prevent from cooking. 4. Cook at 250 degrees for 3 minutes. Note: if your tray is small and the shrimps are arranged tightly together you might need to move them around a bit or cook them for up to 5 minutes. 5. That´s all. Magic, I know! Enjoy with a salad or stand-alone as an appetiser.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#homemade #foodporn #foodie #instafood #foodgram #nextbestfoodie #foodblogger #foodblog #foodphotography #foodstylingandphotography #foodstyling #romanianchef #choiceofmagic #quickrecipe #shrimp #seafood #mallorca #belmondrecipes #belmond #belmondlaresidencia #mediterranean #mediterraneanfood #mediterraneandiet #portugal #spain #spanishisland #islandfood

What are you #currentlyreading ? 📚 ⠀⠀⠀⠀

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For me, this month´s book club was unfortunately somewhat of a failure (and will as such not go up on the blog), as we travelled a lot and I didn´t get to read as much as I wanted. But as I lie in our hotel bed, before heading back to Lisbon in a few days, I gaze at the incredible stack of books I bought from Romania and will need to squeeze in my hand luggage. From old classics (bought second hand), to new books, from known Romanian authors, to unknown foreign ones, my heart fills with joy thinking of all the hours I´ll spend in my reading nook, immersed in all these wonderful stories.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Raise your hand if you also love cake but are not

Raise your hand if you also love cake but are not great at baking them! 🤚I have no issues cooking up exotic meals from far away countries, but hand me some eggs and flour and I am lost. That is, unless we´re talking about Esther, this month´s #guestchef and her wonderfully simple nut cake. I dare you to give it a try and I double dare you to try and ruin it. It´s virtually impossible. 🎂 🍰 🧁 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Ingredients⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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For the cake:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
250g walnuts⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
200g sugar⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
6 eggs⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
one tbsp of flour⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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For the cream:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
100g Philadelphia cheese⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
50g butter⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
150g icing sugar⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
one tbsp cocoa powder⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Instructions ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
1. Run the walnuts through a blender or grind them by hand for a couple of minutes, then mix them with the sugar, the egg yolks of the six eggs and finally the tablespoon of flour. 2. Whisk the egg whites and add them to the previous mixture while you pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees. 3. Butter a 23cm cake tray and add the mixture in. Bake for about 30-40 minutes. 4. While the cake is baking, start preparing the cream. Whisk the Philadelphia cheese and the softened butter in a small bowl and gradually add the icing sugar, mixing constantly until you reach a spreadable texture. Finally, add the cocoa powder, mix and let cool in the fridge for the time the cake is baking and cooling. 5. Once the cake is done baking, let it cool for about 20 minutes, then spread the cream over the top and sprinkle some more crushed walnuts over it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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