Cannelloni with spinach and baileys muffins

You can believe me or not but today's dinner took me literally less than 20 minutes to prepare, 25 minutes to bake and maybe 5 minutes to eat. The flat still smells like an Italian restaurant. We watched a really bad film which I'm not even going to tell you about, we drunk some beer and laughed a lot. It was a good day, quiet...but good. Cat Power is now singing, this always puts me in a good mood. So, with a smile on my face I'm saying goodnight my dear friends. Have a good tuesday!

 Ingredients:

Spinach

Ricotta or mascarpone 250gr

1/2 cup wallnuts

2 onions

4 cloves of garlic

s&p

tsp sugar

a handful of parmesan

2 cans of tomatoes

oregano and basil

cannelloni 

What to do:

Preheat the oven to 180C. Cook spinach and add previously fried onions and squeezed garlic. Leave to cool. Add wallnuts, mascarpone (or ricotta) and parmesan. Season with salt and pepper. Put aside. In a separate pan put the canned tomatoes, herbs and a tbs of sugar (you can also add garlic). Bring to the boil. Pour into the baking tin. Now, using a  plastic sandwich bag, squeeze the mixture into the cannelloni. Lay the cannelloni over the tomato sauce. I also made some bechamel with 50gr butter, 1/2 cup milk, 3 tbsp flour, salt and pepper and some nutmeg. If you're not on a diet (i'm not saying I am :) ) you can also sprinkle it with some grated cheese or mozzarella. Put in the oven for 20-25 mins.

For dessert we had some leftover Baileys and strawberry muffins from last night. 

Cannelloni with spinach and baileys muffins

You can believe me or not but today’s dinner took me literally less than 20 minutes to prepare, 25 minutes to bake and maybe 5 minutes to eat. The flat still smells like an Italian restaurant. We watched a really bad film which I’m not even going to tell you about, we drunk some beer and laughed a lot. It was a good day, quiet…but good. Cat Power is now singing, this always puts me in a good mood. So, with a smile on my face I’m saying goodnight my dear friends. Have a good tuesday!

 Ingredients:

Spinach

Ricotta or mascarpone 250gr

1/2 cup wallnuts

2 onions

4 cloves of garlic

s&p

tsp sugar

a handful of parmesan

2 cans of tomatoes

oregano and basil

cannelloni 

What to do:

Preheat the oven to 180C. Cook spinach and add previously fried onions and squeezed garlic. Leave to cool. Add wallnuts, mascarpone (or ricotta) and parmesan. Season with salt and pepper. Put aside. In a separate pan put the canned tomatoes, herbs and a tbs of sugar (you can also add garlic). Bring to the boil. Pour into the baking tin. Now, using a  plastic sandwich bag, squeeze the mixture into the cannelloni. Lay the cannelloni over the tomato sauce. I also made some bechamel with 50gr butter, 1/2 cup milk, 3 tbsp flour, salt and pepper and some nutmeg. If you’re not on a diet (i’m not saying I am :) ) you can also sprinkle it with some grated cheese or mozzarella. Put in the oven for 20-25 mins.

For dessert we had some leftover Baileys and strawberry muffins from last night. 

Do it yourself

I do believe what people say about star signs is true. I am a Libra and so many times I have heard Libras have a gift for art. Well. I can't really say I'm an artist but I decided to give it a try anyway. I found some DIY instructions on my beloved design sponge and sat down to work. Gosia...thank you again for lending me the sewing machine, I was so desperate, I was willing to do all the needlework myself...so it saved me some time :) On friday, I spent the whole evening struggling with the bloody machine which decided not to cooperate but luckily I put my mom on the speaker and after 2 hours of step by step guidelines we managed to make it work.
Today was a rather busy day, too. We woke up and saw the living room swamped with torn pieces of clothes and thread absolutely everywhere. It really looked like a crime scene. After we tidied up the mess, we made apricot and cranberry buns and tortilla for dinner, (recipies tomorrow). It was really tasty but all I could think of was what to sew next. So, after over 10 hours of hard work, with a terrible back pain and achy fingers I would like to show off  a little with what I have done. Here you can find the instructions.

little purses

lingerie bag

a set of red purses

a set of lingerie bags

 I know it's saturday evening but I'm done for today. Have a good night my friends.

Do it yourself

I do believe what people say about star signs is true. I am a Libra and so many times I have heard Libras have a gift for art. Well. I can’t really say I’m an artist but I decided to give it a try anyway. I found some DIY instructions on my beloved design sponge and sat down to work. Gosia…thank you again for lending me the sewing machine, I was so desperate, I was willing to do all the needlework myself…so it saved me some time :) On friday, I spent the whole evening struggling with the bloody machine which decided not to cooperate but luckily I put my mom on the speaker and after 2 hours of step by step guidelines we managed to make it work.
Today was a rather busy day, too. We woke up and saw the living room swamped with torn pieces of clothes and thread absolutely everywhere. It really looked like a crime scene. After we tidied up the mess, we made apricot and cranberry buns and tortilla for dinner, (recipies tomorrow). It was really tasty but all I could think of was what to sew next. So, after over 10 hours of hard work, with a terrible back pain and achy fingers I would like to show off  a little with what I have done. Here you can find the instructions.

little purses

lingerie bag

a set of red purses

a set of lingerie bags

 I know it’s saturday evening but I’m done for today. Have a good night my friends.