Month: June 2016

Tada, Pasta Carbonara

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Just like the title says, Tada random recipe out of nowhere!

It is not literally true, but there haven’t been much on this blog recently. You could say that I am inactive, not realy proactively in creating new content. The thing is: There are just lots of things in my personal life that prevents me from creating new contents, but also very important in life. It has consequence on my lifestyle. And I like to get rid off some of it, but it might take some time.

In the mean time I’ll post when I have the time to do so.

Pasta Carbonara
Ingredients

150 grams of Pasta (macaroni)
100 grams of Pork belly meat or bacon
20 grams of Parsley
30 grams of Butter
125ml of Cream
30 grams of Grated Cheese
1 egg
Some Salt & PepperSome Oil

Get a pan and turn on the stove. Put enough water into the pan for the amount of pasta you are cooking. When the water in the pan starts to boil add pinch of salt, some oil and the pasta. Let the pasta cook and stir once in a while.

Next chop up the bacon into bits and parsley as well. Set the parsley aside for later on. Now start heat up a frying pan and bake the bacon in their own fat. It takes a while before the fatty bacon can be baked in it’s own fat, be patient. When it happens fry the bacon until it is crunchy on the outside. Take the bacon of the heat, pour out the oily fat and set the bacon aside.

Take a look at the pasta, when they are soft enough pour it out into a colander and catch a half cup of the pasta liquid for the next part.

The preparations are done and the next part is to create your pasta.

Take a frying pan, heat it up and melt the butter in the pan. Put it on low heat when starting to add the bacon into the pan, followed up by adding the egg, the cream, the pasta liquid and the pasta. Stir everything well and taste the flavour add Salt & Pepper, if it is too bland. When the sauce starts to bubble, add the chopped parsley and the grated cheese. Stir the pan a few times and remove it from the heat when it becomes one. Plate the Pasta and it’s ready.

Buon Appetito! 

It is easy to make, however some steps have to be done to make it great.

I hope you like it, have fun trying and Keep Experimenting!

Learning to Grow more…

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These past 2-3 weeks has been troubling me with where I am at, at the moment. I haven’t progressed much in my journey to become an Owner/entrepreneur of my own coffee-and-dessert-shop. In the last few months I have been just surviving in a money-swindling city of the magnificent Amsterdam. I am still working part-time, the job isn’t terrible but I need to work more or have a 2nd job to feel secure. I like the people over there, colleagues and customers. What’s more is that I like to do useful work by helping the people at my job. If I can help them out, while learning new skills to do so, is something I enjoy the most.

‘I have always been like this, enjoying to learn and see growth in every aspect of my life. I enjoy it greatly like in games that have that aspect in it as in RPG’s games that I play. I am a big fan of these games and stories where you can learn and see growth in a character.’

So, back to my life. In the past three weeks I have been helping out at the food corner, because of shortage of personnel. Working there is very different than what I usually do, It is non-stop working without much of catching a break and it is fun (in a kinda masochistic way), I was learning a lot of new things and it was keeping me busy. I was trying to keeping it up with my co-workers and underhand leveling my multi-tasking skills. I am what you call a Jack-of-all-trades person and I enjoy to learn a lot as well as get better in the things that I do. Work has kept me busy and I kept my mind busy with a lot of stressful things, financial things, dream-related, health-related, relationship-related, future-related. When I had an off-day I would had these things on my mind clogging my creativity-wheel and inspiration-axis, preventing me to create/ or formulate new things.
The one thing that bothers me the most is, Should I stay at this job, while keep on living a fun, but without much purpose in life. Or stay true to my objective to create something, more troublesome but at the end a fulfilling life. I know I want the last, but I don’t want to give up on the things I have build up until now. Mostly the happy and fun relationships. I am kinda bad at keeping in touch with people and I know that peoples come and go in life.

It is a good thing that people goes when the times comes, because I happily see people grow in their progress to be unique. Growth wether it is in, personal, physical, intellectual, or any other areas are good things and I support it 100%. I just don’t like it when there is no substantial progress. It is mind-numbing to do things over and over again without a change of input. I know you can be called a specialist for doing the same thing over and over again, but it doesn’t suits me because I’m of the school of life-long learning and enjoy growth in every aspect in life. For example ‘starting a new’ is something I have done at various part of my life and it can be scary at sometimes, but eventually you will learn that it’s a good life-experience to have had. (see my past) I know I have chosen a hard path to walk on and it won’t be any less easy to continue forward, it only gets harder anyway.

About jobs, recently, I have been seeing lots of job-adds in my mail-and social-feeds. It is interesting to see them come by, but there is nothing worth looking at. It is all job-offers to work for something or someone and not something in the direction I am heading towards. I have it clear, that if I want to have the future that I want, I need to create it on my own. I am just having trouble to get started. Without much support, experience, money or skills to create something to be good at, is a crazy starting point.

Without further a do this is the answer, what I can think of for now: I just need to learn more and more, grow as much in different aspect of life to be able start things and eventually let it snowball to something great.

It is good to have these stuff’s off my chest. Don’t let Walls stop you, Keep Experimenting! (and Break through!)