Ending & Starting

After 6 weeks we had to say goodbye to the parents of Javi who were here to visit us for the first time ever and to see a part of Europe for the first time in their lives. It looked far always some months ago and now it's already gone...those days...we are missing them so strong. We are very happy that they are back in Peru after a save journey over the ocean to see back the whole family and tell them huge stories about what they saw and expirienced. The photo above I took yesterday while we visited the forest where we walked together two weeks ago. It's a very normal forest but it looks so exotic, it reminds me even of the rainforest in Peru itself.
And after those huge vacation and many visits in Spain, France, Andorra, Germany and Holland, time to get back to work and DRAW!
Give you a little sneek peak of what's coming. An illustration for the column of a good friend.

Tomorrow more.

Forecast

Doodling again!

As I said! The flow is back and that little new Moleskine sketchbook is giving me wings! Just doodled around while listening to old favourite tunes of my ♥-ly man! Fridayevenings can be sooo sweet and calm! Have a nice weekend ;)

Spring!

Dalí enjoys the sun like never before. It will be his first Spring ever!
He is very excited my catman! And me too. What light can do with a human being!!! I finished another recipe for They Draw and Cook. This time to participate in a contest about fig-recipes. I went for a fresh fig jam that I want to make very soon for my two men! :)
More about the contest on next saturday!

Back to my press

A little test on my printing press before I go printing this afternoon with the kids on the academy. We made drawings with glue and sand and now they are ready to print. I'm so excited to see their results! Find out here the drawings they made already on my other BLOG.

update : Watch the results HERE!

Friends and secrets

Friends can surprise you all day long. This day was one of them.
Made this as an illustration for a column of a friend. Tomorrow is even a bigger day to come!

If you wonder who made this little plate...find it HERE. Bought it on a little designmarket in Amsterdam & my brush loves it!
♥

Water with love

Gracias amor! Te amo mucho!

Covers and reading

Just finished ' The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim' (De afschuwelijke eenzaamheid van Maxwell Sim) by Jonathan Coe. In a late night show I saw him talking about this new book and it attracted me so much as it goes about THIS time, full of digital communications/friendship/relations. Love this style of writing! And between all the reading I made a little cover for a mini-agenda...just some doodle with Ikea-fabrics :)

Deep sounds

A work in progress...all about music. Later more about it ;)

Blurps

My little honey!

Doodling for a beerlabel...a home made beer with honey bottled and brewed by my neighbour, that we will present next week on our street-party...time is running and I go colouring this one!

Dalí on the tablet

After one month 'vacation'...it was again workshop-time today, and I felt tired...:) What vacation can do no? So, this is what came out my tablet-pencil...just played around on it and had some fun :)
My sweet Dalí sleeping on my bag. He is now 2 weeks with us and he took my heart already!

He arrived!

How many months I was dreaming again of having a cat. 'El dibujo del gato', without being inspired by these incredible inspiring creatures. Wietske is living with my parents since I went to the other side of the world to start a new life. When I came back, she was so happy to live with them that it looked horrible to take her again away from the place she was used by then. So after more then two years alone, without any 'moustache' close to me, finally I can make a little dance of hapiness. It's a boy with a white nose and toes...Only two days he is living here with us and he is already our god! Just one problem : his name! I thought about MAYO, just sounds sweet but many friends refer to the sauce on the french fries..., my husband likes MICHI, like they call cats in Peru, michimichimichi...but that sounds so inpersonal to me, he should have a name that suites him perfect, but it has to sound in spanish too! Some names I found on the net that could work: MAGO , MANTO, MAU. What should I choose? Or is Mayo just right? ;) Or do you have still another nice name for this lovely man of me! Help me! :)

Blanco

Just bought a new book, love the cardboard-cover and made it more personal...more Gato, more Kathy....ready to live it!

Thirsty dream

The Incas lived upon fields of gold...and I want to drink a glass of Golden Kola. I always thought the color isn't a good sign of what's in it...but after some research I guess it's much healtier then his big brother Coca. I'm living for a while on a fridge of gold with this bottle in it!;) sooo tasty!

Arroz con leche

For all the fans of cooking and more special for everyone who never tasted it before!!! THIS ONE YOU HAVE TO TRY!

The recipe I always use you can find in the wonderful cooking-bible : 'El arte de la cocina Peruana' by Tony Custer. In this book you can find the typical recipes of the greatest chefs from Perú! And for everyone who still didn't knew: The Peruvian kitchen is really INCREDIBLE!
Here is the recipe so you can start right now!

You will need:

1 cup of rice / taza de arroz / tas rijst

5 cups of water / tazas de agua / tassen water

1 piece of cinnamon / palito de canelo / kaneelstokje

2 cloves / clavos de olor / kruidnagel

1 canned evaporated milk / lata de leche evaporada / blik geëvaporeerde melk
1 canned condensed milk / lata de leche condensada / blik gecondenseerde melk

10-12 or like you want raisins / pasas / rozijnen

1 egg / huevo / ei

half cup of Porto wine / vindo de oporto / Porto

4 spoons of sugar / cds. de azucar / lepels suiker

salt / sal / zout

Recipe :

You have to wash the rice very well, so that the water is clean and pure in the end.

Boil the water with the cinnamon and the cloves. When it boiles you can add the rice, cover it and cook it very slow like 30 minutes until all the water is absorbed. Then you can add the evaporated milk, mix well. When it cooks again, you will add the condensed milk and the raisins. Cook it for another 10 minutes while you move the spoon into it and the whole thing will become thicker. Take it off from the heat and put the yolk of the egg, half of the Port wine, a very little bit salt and mix well. Boil the other part of Port wine together with the sugar until you will get a thick syrup. Beat up the egg-white and mix carefully with the syrup. After this you will mix this meringue with the rice-mix. Before serving you can add some cinnamon-powder to make it even more delicious then it already is!!!!
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Receta Arroz con Leche :

Lavar muy bien el arroz en un colador bajo agua fría corriente, hasta que el agua salga cristalina.
Poner el agua en una olla, agregar el palito de canela y los clavos de olor. Hervir. Cuando el líquido se haya absorbido, alrededor de 30 min.
Añadir la leche evaporada y remover. Cuando la mezcla esté hirviendo nuevamente, agregar la leche condensada y las pasas. Cocinar por 10 min. , removiendo, hasta que la mezcla espese. Retirar del calor y agregar la yema de huevo, 1/4 de taza de vino de oporto y la pizca de sal.
Calientar el 1/4 de taza de vino de oporto restante y el azúcar juntos en una olla pequeña de fondo grueso, hasta formar el almíbar.

Batir la clara a punto de nieve, suavemente añadir el almíbar con movimientos envolventes y luego agregar este merengue dulce al budín de arroz.

Decorar con canela en polvo.

Buen provechooooo!
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Recept 'Peruaanse rijstpap' :

Spoel de rijst onder koud stromend water tot wanneer het water helder ziet. Kook het water in een grote pot, voeg het kaneelstokje en de kruidnagels toe. Als het water kookt dan voeg je de rijst eraan toe en dek je het geheel af om op een laag vuur ongeveer 30 min te koken tot wanneer alle vocht is opgenomen door de rijst. Voeg de geëvaporeerde melk toe en meng goed. Als het geheel opnieuw kookt voeg dan de gecondenseerde melk toe en de rozijnen. Kook nog een 10-tal minuten, constant roeren tot wanneer de massa dikt.
Haal van het vuur en voeg de eierdooier toe, de helft van de Porto en een snuifje zout, meng goed. Verwarm de andere helft van de Porto met de suiker en kook tot wanneer er zich een dikke stroop vormt. Meng dit voorzichting door het opgeklopte eiwit en voeg dit toe aan de rijst. Meng heel goed en serveer de rijstpap met kaneelpoeder of kaneelstokje.

Smakelijk
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ENJOY!
And feel free to let me know how it tasted!;)

Feet-doodle

Green fingers

Beside the fact I have drawing fingers they are also very green!:) Last spring I couldn't and didn't want to let grow a lot of plants and flowers because of our two months absence ( in Peru). Now, this year we cannot afford us again that too expensive ticket and I'm concentrating on making a little heaven on earth....hm, little bit exaggerated:) Love the textures, the thousands of green, the growing wonders and everything around it...
Here you can see some doodlings and my playtime in photoshop on a rural saterday eve...
Have a nice weekend!
♥

Tomb-drawing

A friend did remind me on FB of our visit to this tomb of Cesar Vallejo on the cemetery of Montparnasse in Paris, almost 3 years ago! Me and my future husband travelled to Paris and promised our friend to leave some notes on the resting place of the Peruvian poet, a man who's mind and work mean a lot for him. I drewed this little portrait on my room in the hotel...and gave it a place on the tomb together with other little things that had a meaning. O gosh, three years already!!!
♥

Diary France #5 : Plage - doodle

Very quick, last saturday-afternoon...on a little and quiet beach near St.Malo I made this little doodle. Not for the result but just for the feeling of sand gliding trough my fingers...while the wind blowed the ocean in my back :). This meaned finally some rest after a very busy time!