Traffic lights shake

Another of the greatest human inventions has been the traffic light, so on the occasion of the International Inventors' Day, we recommend you to make a traffic light-shake in  honour of two inventors: John Peake Knight, who invented the first manual traffic light in the middle of the nineteenth century, and Ernest Sirrine who improved it by making it automatic. For this smoothie, full of vitamins, we used fresh strawberries, banana...

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Inventors cupcakes

To celebrate the International Inventors' Day, on November 9th, we propose you small cakes shaped of great inventions. We have chosen two inventions: The locomotive. The first locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in the early nineteenth century. These were steam locomotives until mid-twentieth century. The bed. Considered by many the greatest human fabrication, its invention is attributed to Egyptians and Assyrians. To...

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Hot-air balloon lamp

A very easy to make decoration, inspired by the International Inventors Day, is a lamp shaped of a balloon: Tie a cube of the same colour as the lamp up with a piece of cord, and then tie some tissue paper bags to it. Finally paste some rope strips from the top to the bottom of the lamp and tie them up with the cord around the cube. The invention of the balloon is attributed to Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier brothers...

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International Inventor's Day

On 9 November the International Inventors' Day is celebrated in honour of Hedy Lamarr, an engineer in telecommunications and an actress (starred in more than 30 films), who invented the frequency-hopped spread spectrum (that is a method of transmitting digital and radio signals to both transmitter and receiver). While in the US the Day of National Inventors is celebrated on February 11th, the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Alva Edison,...

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Halloween celebration

This week we posted some recommendations to celebrate Halloween. Here you are the links to all of our proposals: Do you know how to celebrate Halloween? Halloween decoration Bones of Saints dessert "Brain" shot                                                ...

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"Brain" shot

The final touch for your Halloween party is a colorful "brain" shot.  Make these shots is pretty simple but not always the desired result is obtained. The ingredients you need are: vodka, grenadine and Baileys. Mix vodka and grenadine, stir the mixture with a wooden stick and then pour a small amount of Baileys. The result is a shot with a very similar appearance to a brain mass.           Do you want...

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Bones of Saint

One of the most traditional sweet for Hallow-eve, the first of November, are the Bones of Saint which consist in small tubes of marzipan stuffed with egg yolk cake. Ingredients for the marzipan: 200 grammes of sugar 200 grammes of water 150 grammes of ground almond Ingredients for the egg yolk cake: 90 grammes of sugar 100 grammes of water 6 yolks Elaboration for 4 dinner guests: First of all, we elaborate the marzipan: Put...

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Halloween decoration

Do you want to decorate your home in an easy and quickly way for Halloween? Here you are our terrifying proposal to decorate your lobby. The typical colors of halloween are the black (evening color) and the orange (sunrise color). Therefore, put some black and orange balloons and draw your own terrifying figures. Another decoration that you can make by your own is with white and black foamy. Make a moon with the white foamy...

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Halloween

Do you know how are you going to celebrate Halloween this year? If not, I hope that after this post you already know it. But first of all, let us tell you a bit of the history of this celebration.  The word "Halloween" comes from the the english expression "All Hallows Eve". Halloween has a celtic origin with more than 2.500 years old. The 31st of october was the last day of the year in the celtic calendar. That last day was...

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Enjoy the fall

This week we posted recommendations to enjoy the autumn.  Following the links to all those posts: Five plans to enjoy the autumn Decor in the fall  Grapes sorbet  Chestnut cream with chocolate                                                          ...

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Autumn dessert - Chestnut cream with chocolate

If you want to surprise with a great and very easy to prepare dessert, in Autumn we recommend you a chestnut cream with chocolate and caramel. ·   To make the chocolate sheets: Melt some squares of covering chocolate with a small jet of milk. Once melted, layer it on tracing paper with the shape that you like (we've decided squares), and put them immediately in the refrigerator. Let it cool a few hours. ·   To...

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Grapes sorbet

It's harvest time and we have been lucky enough to receive several generous bunches of freshly muscatel grapes harvested at Santa Cruz de la Zarza, gift of a great couple of friends. With those, we prepared a sweet grapes sorbet, which we made as follows: the grapes are peeled, the seeds removed, and finally those are mixed with syrup. ·  To make the syrup, you need: grape juice, lemon juice, water and sugar. In a saucepan add...

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Autumn decor

Upgrade your home decor and dress it with the colours of Autumn. Evolve toward reddish tones, seasonal mushrooms and romantic forests. Then we leave our proposal to give an autumnal touch to your home. To make the set we used a couple of branches of red and green leaves of a Liquidambar, which we incorporate into a pot for bonsais. Then we included several types of mushrooms, and finally added small aromatic leaves and flowers of different...

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Autumn - One season and five plans

We are right in the fall season, and the red and ochre colours fill the streets, and even houses, because it's time to start lighting the fireplaces, softly, not to heat the home, but only because we feel like it, because we are in Autumn and we enjoy those romantic and warm orange tones that only fire of fireplaces or candles is able to provide. This is definitely one of our favourite seasons, when it is not still too cold in the streets...

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