Love This: Metallic

I am off to Berlin on Thursday for the weekend to dine on delicious food and take in some more sights around the city.  I look forward to reporting back on my finds next week but don’t worry, still more to come this week.  The temperature has finally dropped in Prague, so I am doing my best to find reasons to hibernate and only come out for air when the sun is shining in the sky for warmth or to take a long walk.

I love the different metallic characteristics seen in the colour pallet of products below.  They remind me of winter, when everything is a bit more muted and less bright outside. The great thing about metal is its wide range of hues such as a mate metallic seen in the spoons and Nordicware baking sheet, to the shinier, bling of the Harry Winston ring, Alessi trivet and the DVF clutch!

I made flat chocolate chip cookies

My cookie making career has come full circle.  In the early days, inspired by the cafeteria cookies in Grade 7, my friends and I used to clamor for flat, gooey, semi-raw chocolate chip cookies.  And the funny thing, is that I remember our cookies that we baked, turned out just like the one’s at school-flat, gooey and undercooked.

Then I graduated to baking mounds of dense chocolate chip cookies that rose in the oven instead of spread out, which soon became my new favourite.  I scooped these cookies out in ice-cream scoops or by the quarter cup and molded the domes on the baking sheet.  However, I came full circle on Sunday when I tried a new recipe out of The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, which was a holiday gift from my sister-in-law-to-be.   When I was organizing my ingredients, for some reason I thought there was a lot of butter and a lot of brown sugar, but maybe it was because I haven’t baked chocolate chip cookies in a while.  It turns out, the batter was a bit on the sticky side and not the consistency I was used to working with so I added more flour.

The result, the recipe produced flat, chewy, gooey chocolate chip cookies (the first batch were semi-raw, a homage to the good old days) and they were tasty. The batch left my house this morning and were sent to the office and were gobbled up according to the reports.

Recipe from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook

225 g of butter
350 g of brown sugar
2 eggs (room temp)
1/2 tsp of vanilla extract
400 g of flour
1/2 tsp of salt
2 1/2 tsp of baking soda
225 g of chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F or 170 degrees C-

In a mixer, mix butter and sugar until fluffy.  Beat in eggs one at a time.  Scrape down bowl after each egg.  Add the vanilla, mix again. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl, mix and then add to wet ingredients.  Add chocolate chips and scoop out onto baking sheet.  I baked mine for 10 minutes and they were golden brown- but of course watch and adjust depending on your oven temperature.

Enjoy with milk!

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Love This: Wedge Shaped Pie Boxes

I have to share this find with you all: Wedge shaped pie boxes!!  So you can serve or gift your pie in an individual, perfectly fitted container with a cute little wooden fork.

I read about these pie boxes on a post from Sunday Suppers (about a beautiful looking chocolate and lavender pie- see photo below) and applaud Petitmoulin aka Stephmodo, on Etsy, for creating these.  I love these things!

via etsy

via etsy

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If you are looking for some fun projects, recipes or ideas this weekend here are some thoughts that I’ve been looking at:

1. A Chinese New Year themed party from Lorajean’s Magazine

2. Hanging Heart Charms in prep for Valentine’s Day from Made

3. The doughnuts in this picture from Fjellby

4. A vegan soba salad from Scandi Foodie

Found Muji

Have you heard the news? Muji, the Japanese home goods brand that continues to expand around the globe and entice customers with its simple, everyday products, recently re-branded and re-launched the location of its first ever Muji store in Tokyo’s Aoyama district and called it Found Muji.  Every time I am in a city and see a Muji store I stock up on cute little items, especially their pens.  When I was living in Hong Kong in 2003 and again in 2006 I couldn’t get enough of their colourful pens and office organization items and simple brown paper notebooks.

For those of you Mujites who love the brand’s minimalist, affordable products, natural style, and endless hours of in-store fun, Found Muji looks to be even cooler.  I love what they did with the concept behind the new store.  Instead of showcasing their own Muji brand, they are selling the goods produced by small businesses and revealing the stories behind each of the products they’ve selected for the Aoyama store. Now that I think about it, Found Muji actually reminds me of ABC Carpet Factory in New York, of course with an entirely different aesthetic-

Maybe this will be a concept that expand globally.  What a treat if they do!

via Tmagazine

via 2121 design insight

via huh magazine

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Love This: Saskia Diez

I love the products of Saskia Diez, a German jewellery and accessories designer based in Munich.  What initially drew me to her site was a photo I saw from blog, Style Work in Progress, of Saskia’s award winning “Paper” bag collection, a series of travel bags made from Tyvek, a recyclable, synthetic, lightweight paper material. I am always looking for fun and interesting weekend or travel bags and I would love to add one of Saskia’s bags to my collection.  I am particularly enamoured with her blue travel bag.  The colour is so rich, however I also love the black one too.

Source: saskia-diez.com via Sarah on Pinterest

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