Ivana's Calamarities

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Thank you

My mother in a costume during one of the operas she sang in.

An empty hospital bed with a pink flower on the pillow.

Goodbye, dear mother.
You mighty woman.
Take care of her, dad.

🔥

I'm about halfway through the game, agree with both points. 😅 Or, well, I call it challenging rather than difficult. ^.^

😂

This. Anyone can take your name once you do it and I have heard of it happening.

A snow covered table is seen through a door. There are many crows on it, feasting.

I fed my feathered friends.

Mandatory rest. But I do have the best seat in the house.

You too!

I am yes, I assume you mean ontbijtkoek? Iirc there are recipes in one of my Dutch cookbooks, I can check in the morning for you. :)

Cartoon. Group of people are standing hiding around a corner and carefullt pushing a door with 2026 on it open with a long broom.

I'll never get over his little haircut, makes me chuckle every time 😂

Could not have put it better.

You too, dear Shi 💚

Barren field, few trees on the horizon and the sun shining low. Sky is blue with only a few small clouds.

Green field on the left, reed on the right and a tree in the middle. Low sun, blue skies.

One daisy with 4 flowers all by itself in sand.

Treetops in the sun, naked wide branches, blue sky in the background.

Walk. 🧡

Hey, colourful people like this make life more fun! 😁

I feel this on such a deep level

A black table at a restaurant with food, drinks and cutlery.

Managed to escape the chaos of life for a morning and got treated to a lunch with friends. 💜
(My vitello tonnato salad was bomb.)

Poem by Brianna Pastor. It says: i don't want to grow a thick skin i want my skin to stay as thin as it was made and everything outside of that to be softer

Whaa lucky you, it's beautiful!

Floor with various blocks of colour and 4 lines running over them, yellow, red, blue, green.

Hospital, the place that should be accessible to all.
'Follow the blue line to get to the correct waiting room.'
1 in 12 men are colour blind, who even makes these decisions jfc.

Big pot of Dutch split pea soup (snert) on a black counter with a wooden spoon in it.

*many hours later*

Snert is done
I can't feel my knees
Fralalalalaaaa
Lalaaa laaa laaa 🎵

Two pots on a black kitchen counter. The left has stock, the right has a strainer on it through which the stock is being strained.

A ladle holding split peas up in a pot of stock.

Strain the stock and
Cook the split peas
Fralala lalala
Lalalaaa 🎵

Pressure cooker filled with veg and meat to make stock. Leeks, celeriac, peppercorns and celery can be seen.

'Tis the season for Dutch split pea soup
Fralalalalalaa lala lalaa
Stock is fragrant
Tempting belly
Fralalalalalaa lala lalaa 🎵

Aah that sounds lovely, never tried it with prunes! Our go to salad is a simple garlic and balsamic vinegar. Should try prunes sometimes too. ^.^

Snippet from a book, it says: beetroot The poor, belittled beetroot. Even British food writer and documented vegetable lover Jane Grigson besmirches its name in her Vegetable Book, an ode to produce. In the span of three sentences, she maligns it repeatedly, declaring, "It is not an inspiring vegetable." Then, it is "far too bossy a vegetable. I have never heard anyone claim it as their favourite." I wonder if Jane had such a hairy relationship with beetroot because her preferred cooking method involved leaving them in the oven for 3 to 4 hours? If I cooked them that long, I'd probably detest them, too.

Reading Samin Nosrat's sophisticated jab at Jane Grigson during my morning coffee and I'm all here for it. 😂

Beetroot, my beloved.

Two carrots, entwined. It's as if the bottom one has its legs wrapped around the top one.

Today I learned how baby carrots are made. 👀

YouTube video by RiseAgainstVEVO Rise Against - Prayer Of The Refugee (Official Music Video)

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