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Love this song, love this music video, just love both of these men (Rupert Grint and Ed Sheeran) in general!

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How about this slow loris eating a banana? Cute!

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Look at this cute slow loris! 

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Gnocchi!

After thinking and searching I finally found a recipe with gnocchi I wanted to try! It's an oven dish and with the same ingredients you can make lasanga (change the gnocchi for lasagna leafs).I have thought about making it for such a long time, but didn't know how to. Now I did it and it was pretty good. It wasn't a fantastic recipe, but a good one for if you want to keep it simple! Ingredients: - 500 gr. gnocchi - 450 gr. frozen spinach à la crème - 260 gr. pasta sauce - pizza cheese - Mozzarella 1. Cook the gnocchi for about 2 mintues (depending on the sort, you can check packaging) 2. Heat the spinach. When it's thawed add the pasta sauce. 3. Put the gnocchi as well as the spinach pasta sauce mix into a baking dish. 4. Sprinkel the cheese on the spinach and put the slices of mozzarella on top of this.  5. It should be in te oven at 220 degrees celcius for about 20 minutes. And it's done!

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A play called Jeremia

Friday 14-02-2014, Frascati Amsterdam. Last week I saw the play Jeremia from Sadettin Kirmiziyüz and Marjolijn van Heemstra, I was soooo good!  It was about freedom of speech on which the dutch society is build. But is this really a good thing? Do we need really need to say everything we think? And at what point do we call it racism? For dutch people the freedom of speech is obvious, if anyone would try to take that away from us we would bloody murder! But some people say isn't always that thought out and can heard people. The play wasn't really two people pretending to be someone else, a.k.a. a traditional play, but more of a dialogue. I wouldn't be able to really categorize it except by saying it was really good! It exposed various possible angles on the subject without telling us what we should think. It told us to think about it, but not how to think about it. To see the Turkish Sadettin Kirmiziyüz and the Dutch Marjolijn Heemstra telling it exactly how it is is refreshing.  The set doesn't leave anything to think about, however. They use a lot of props, but it doesn't hurt the play. The two different halves of the stage symbolize two opposite views on the point: the extreme right who are against the multicultural society and the extreme left who wants everyone living in peace with each other.  It is an incredible piece which shows us different views on racism, freedom of speech and their politics, without being political or pedantic. It's painfully thruthful, but in a good way. If you are able to go watch, do go! At least if you understand Dutch...

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Practicing cupcake icing

I just made some cupecakes and they tasted delicious! For the recipe go to http://www.cupcakerecepten.nl/cupcakes-maken (it is in dutch).

The recipe for the buttercream frosting: - 200 gr. butter - 200 gr. powdered sugar Mix it untill it's smooth, et voila! I added a package of vanilla sugar for the taste and some food coloring. The idea to make this came because I wanted to practise the cupcake swirl. As you can see I'm not quite there yet, I'll just keep practicing. I can tell you it is allready a lot better than when I started. Also, not all of the cupcakes where that "good", the other 6 where even worse! That's why I only show you these.  For a good tutorial on how to make a perfect cupcake swirl go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8a3cJD8Qg. Watch this girls other movies on youtube for even more lessons about cupcakes

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New York? Cheescake!

Yesterday I baked a cheesecake, today we ate it! It tasted great, so I will share the recipe with you:

Ingrediënts: - 150 gr. biscuits - 100 gr. butter (melted) - 500 gr. cream cheese - 125 ml. Crème fraiche - 200 gr. sugar - 3 eggs - 8 gr. vanilla sugar - 2 tablespoons flower - 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1. Crumble the cookies in a covered teatowel with a rolling pin (or put them in the food processor). 2. Mix the cookie crubmles with the melted butter. Put the mix in a 24 cm. round cake form. Tamp the mix to make sure it's nice and sturdy. Cool it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. 3. Mix the cream cheese, crème fraiche, sugar, eggs, vanilla sugar, flower and lemon juice with the food mixer untill it's really smooth (without any lumps). 4. Distribute the creame cheese mix evenly on the cookie/butter mix.  5. Bake the cake into an oven which is preheated on 150 celsius for 1 1/2 hours. 6. Let it cool down in the oven untill it's room temperature. After this cool for at least 4 hours in the refrigerator before eating. Bon appetit or eet smakelijk!

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Jack Johnson- Banana Pancakes Een fijn liedje voor de lazy sunday, en misschien een ideetje voor een ontbijtje?

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Sporten betekent shoppen

Zo als vele anderen had ook ik het goede voornemen om dit jaar meer te gaan sporten. Dit goede voornemen moest alleen nog even op zich wachten door de vele deadlines die ik had aan het begin van dit jaar (papers, essay's, tentamens, scriptieplan en op zoek naar een stage). Maar nu ik eindelijk een beetje rust heb gevonden wordt het voor mij ook tijd om te sporten. Natuurlijk is de eerste stap dan om op zoek te gaan naar een sportschool. Die keuze was snel gemaakt: de goedkoopste, makkelijk bereikbaar en met groepslessen (mijn discipline is namelijk erg klein als ik zelf oefeningen moet gaan verzinnen). Maar dan komt het volgende probleem: sportkleren. Misschien moet ik het niet een probleem, maar een mogelijkheid noemen. Ik ben gek op kleren en shoppen, maar door gebrek aan geld is dat even niet zo belangrijk meer. TOTDAT.... Ik verplicht moest shoppen omdat ik geen sportkleren had! Feest! Gelukkig hoeven sportkleren niet te duur te zijn en kan ik mijn hart ophalen met twee super leuke sportbroeken en een erg leuk shirtje.  Zo als bij elke vrouw voelt voor mij het kopen van kleren die ook echt noodzakelijk zijn als een enorme overwinning waar ik een paar dagen op kan teren. Koop ik kleren die niet zo noodzakelijk zijn, dan wordt ik meestal wel blij van de kleren, maar die blijheid vergaat snel als ik een blik werp op mijn bankrekening. Voor nu ben ik erg blij met mijn nieuwe kleren, zonder schuldgevoel!

Ik zeg: sportschool, kom maar op!