Yesterday I made this easy, quick(less then 20min with prep) and healthy quinoa salad with veggies. As I wrote in earlier posts, I tend to eat dinner quite late as I don't have lunch until 4pm at least so dinner is usually around 9pm so I really want to keep it fat free, nutritious and light so I can fall a sleep normally.
This recipe you'll really like. If you haven't tried to prepare quinoa again it's quite easy actually, you just cook it the same way you would rice. You can get quinoa in any grocery store or bio store like Bio & Bio or dm in Croatia or pretty much any grocery store in Western Europe or US.
Since I go back from vacation and got into my daily work routine I finally also caught up with working out regularly and cooking healthy. Since I work from home and make my own schedule I try to match my body's rhythm and work part of the day and then again in the evening. This means that I get up later and go to sleep later, thus I eat my dinner quite late. For example, today I ate my dinner at 10 pm after working out for an hour.
Since it is very important to eat (protein) within half an hour after working out I like to have or cottage cheese with a small spoon of honey for dinner or tuna salad. I don't mean that tuna salad you get in restaurants with fattening dressing and mayo but healthy kind. :)
Now, I am sure there are gazilion ways to make tuna salad, but I would like to share some of my favorites. I usually make the one for which I have ingredients at home and I never eat it with bread but rather substitute with plain rice cakes, multigrain tortilla wrap or a cucumber.
Once I make the base of tuna salad (and I make a bigger quantity) I keep it in a fridge for 2-3 days and combine it with different ingredients for delicious protein full meals.
BASE INGREDIENTS
4 small cans of tuna (in water not oil)
Olive oil
Squeezed lemon juice
Pinch of salt
2 cloves of garlic or 1 small onion
Fresh parsley cut to tiny pieces
We saw them last Fall/Winter season and we again saw them emerging in different fabrications and structure on runway for Fall/Winter 2014. pastel pink trenches, coats and faux fur jacket are super trendy no matter if you choose structured, oversized, knee length, short or long.
Many designers embraced the trend so we could see it featured on Burberry Prorsum, Jil Sander, Comme des Garçons etc.
Ladies have you tried tapioca pudding?
I often order it for a desert when eating out but have never tried to make it at home. This morning I got a small pack of tapioca peals in local grocery store. Usually you can find it in Asian or international food section of the supermarket.
It took me in total about half an hour to prepare and cook it, it's super easy and delicious. I adore all deserts (and cosmetics) with coconut so I added coconut milk to this recipe as well. On top of tapioca pudding you can add different fresh fruit to taste, this time I added mango pieces and toasted shredded coconut. In restaurants I also got it (and loved it) with different berries - raspberries or blueberries.
Donna Karan 2011.
I am NOT a shorty, sexy, hottie, chick, bitch, cleaning lady, cook, baby making machine, nor a feminist, careerist, laud mouth. I a human being, a women, a lady, a sister, a daughter, a girlfriend, a dog owner, an athlete, a business owner and a fashion blogger.
I will tell you my women's worth story. I grew up in an average family with parents and a sister. My mother could do it all, she is a successful business women, book writer, home maker and has plenty of hobbies on a side. I grew up seeing women who can do it all, how and when she wants while still fulfilling 'society norms' and doing her family duties and more.
When I was 16 my grandfather who lived in rural parts of Croatia asked me when I will get married. I left the country when I was 18 to go study on full athletic scholarship in US. In my country girls who play sports are perceived as masculine and not overly attractive while role models for majority of young girls are usually half naked folk singers disfigured from plastic surgeries or 'married-rich' models. The value of a women is measured and perceived based on her looks, marital status, family wealth or her domestic skills.
Photos by Bernat Mestres
The advantage of working from home is that you can plan your own work day, disadvantage is that you end up working very long hours non-stop. This is why I consciously decided to plan my daily work schedule around conference calls with designers for my Trendcy buyers job, visits to multi brand boutiques and my blog posting.
Spending full day in same room doesn't really make my creative juices flow so I often take a walk to my favorite concept-store slash cafe Jaime Beriestain here in Barcelona where I have a lunch or coffee, browse through September issues of Vogue and quite often get inspired for my new posts.
The cafe is never super packet with people, the food and service is great and I love to pick up peonies from their flower shop on my way home.
Photo: Bernat Mestres
The last week I returned from vacation in Dubrovnik and jumped right into 'work mode' with catching up on my blog and work emails and doing a long overdue shoot to refresh my blog's look and feel.
Funny enough while everyone in Barcelona seem to be somewhere else vacationing in August and the city is occupied by tourists only, I don't mind the silence and peace while working on new and exciting projects both for Trendcy where I work as a buyer and my blog on which you can expect to see major changes during next two months.
Photo source: www.moda.hr
If you are a die-hard fashionista or just like to stay in touch with latest fashion news and trends you are probably following a fair number of fashion websites, portals and blogs. One of my favorite Croatian fashion portal and the only one I have been following since I was still living in NYC is www.moda.hr.
Moda.hr supports and promotes Croatian fashion design and has been doing this much before it was mainstream. You might remember some of their previous seasonal lookbooks I posted about, with my favorite being "Abused Mommy" and "Croatian fashion designers SS 2013. lookbook".
The advantage for many young designers is that with this lookbook shoot which they pay to participate in they get not only media exposure but also a skilled team of professionals who knows both local media environment, local shopper needs but also how to present young designer work in the best possible way.
Spring/Summer 2014. lookbook was shot with record number of 26 Croatian designers in participation.
Looks shot varied from evening gowns to day wear and all pieces are easily wearable across seasons.
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Design by Arileo
'' Eight seasons ago when we enthusiastically launched first Lookbook of Croatian fashion designers, which by now became a tradition project of www.moda.hr portal, I couldn't even dream that just a few years later we will be able to interest so many designers to join the project. It is a really rewarding to know that project with primary goal of promoting Croatian fashion design will be equally loved and well accepted by both designers and our portal readers."
Lucija Biondic, editor in chief of Moda.hr portal
Even though moda.hr team naturally became skeptical about slow growing local media and business which doesn't really sees the value and real potential in online fashion media, thus doesn't invest in advertising much, they still continue to work and enthusiastically support young fashion design scene in Croatia helping them with business development and media training which is far beyond their call of duty.
Without further due, please see below selected pieces their eight lookbook for seasons Spring/Summer 2014. You may see the full lookbook here.
Teo Peric, Modna Kuca Mak | Nives Triva
Dina Grbin | KooKabee Design
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Karin design by Katarina Cvitković | Modni Atelje DI Dizajn
La Marye
All photo credits:
Photo: Franjo Matković | Styling: Barbara Repe, Željka Kosanović | Make up: Danijela Lesandrić for INGLOT
Hair: Ivica Palinić i Ivan Pervan | Models: Dora Sabljić MyGuys Models: Lorena Tijan Talia Model | Alena Lena Kananović Midikenn
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