Veggie omelette recipe
This is a quick and easy dinner recipe that's quite yummy. As a full meal, it's a bit lacking in carbohydrates, though, so I suggest you either eat this with a slice or two of bread, or as I did, with a scoop of potato salad.
For two servings, you'll need: one bell pepper, diced; 250 grams of mushrooms, sliced; 4 to 6 eggs, whisked and mixed with some spices of your choosing (I used a generous helping of BaconSalt).
First, melt a bit of butter in a frying pan and cook the mushrooms for a few minutes, until they're lightly browned and starting to release their juices.
Add in the bell pepper, and cook for another minute or two.
Turn the heat down low and pour your egg mixture on top, until all the veggies are more or less covered. Cover with a lid (this'll spare you having to turn the whole thing over), and let it sit there until it's cooked all the way through to the top of the omelette.
All done! Okay, admittedly it doesn't look very appetizing, but it really is quite yummy. You may want to sprinkle a little bit of salt on the finished product, depending on what spices you used, though.
Quick & Easy Banana Cake Recipe
This is the other cake I made, the banana and chocolate one. The recipe is pretty similar to that of yesterday's chocolate cake.
In a bowl, combine the same ingredients as you did yesterday, minus the cocoa powder. So that's 200gr of cake flour, 200gr of white sugar and one packet of vanilla sugar.
Again, put three eggs into a measuring cup and add milk, this time until you reach a total volume of about 250-275ml, as the bananas will add some moisture too. Then whisk up the eggs and milk.
You can also get away with a little bit less butter due to the added bananas, so melt about 175gr in the microwave.
Take two ripe bananas and mash them up with a fork. Then add all the ingredients to the bread machine again and select the cake programme.
And there we have one finished banana cake! Resist the urge to bite into it and allow to cool instead.
Heat up a package of ready to use chocolate glazing, as per the directions on the package. In this case, I just needed to place the frosting, package and all, into a bowl full of hot water and let it heat up for 10 minutes.
Spread over the cake and allow to cool and harden, and you're all done!
Quick & Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe
Trind: Results after two weeks
Today marks the day that I've used the products in the Trind Perfect System Set for the fourteenth time - so that means I'm done with the two week daily regime. I have to admit I cheated a little; for the first ten days, I used the cuticle balsam, nail balsam and nail repair polish every day, and then left just that polish on until the next day, like you're supposed to. By then I'd gotten tired of having just clear polish on everyday, and so for the last four days, I'd still use the three products... but then I'd put regular nail polish on top of the nail repair as if that was just the base coat. I don't think it mattered much, really.
So what do I think of the results? Well, let's start with the bad news: amazingly, my cuticles are more dried out than when I started this treatment. I don't think the Trind stuff is to blame for that, though. See, the thing is, you're supposed to remove the old coat of nail repair polish every day before applying the new stuff, with an acetone free polish remover. Now, the polish remover that I had was actually a bottle of very cheap, very high acetone content remover (that did work like a charm to actually remove polish, I'll have to admit). So even though it was still half full, I bought a new bottle of "extra care" remover, specifically "extra mild for brittle nails", that the store clerk assured "was completely acetone free". And what did I discover when checking the small print on the back of the bottle later on? Acetone. As the first (thus highest volume percentage) ingredient.
What this means is that I've been using a non-acetone-free remover on my nails every single day, whereas I would normally only take off my polish every two to three days. And while the extra care ingredients may have helped my nails, just as the package promised, the acetone wrecked havoc on my cuticles. At least it didn't stop my nails from growing nice and strong... because that, they definitely did.
Previously, the edges of my nails would be so soft I could easily bend them over, making them very prone to splitting and breaking. Now, however, they're very hard, but not in the sense that they actually become brittle. Just very strong and healthy nails. The colour has improved as well, from a washed out slightly yellow tone all over to a soft pink nail with an actual white edge. As I showed in the before picture in my original post, I also had several nails where the top layer was actually peeling back, making the nail very ragged and ridged. I figured this was something that would simply need to be grown out, and the only thing the Trind products would do, would be keeping the nails strong enough to prevent them from splitting and peeling any more while they grew out. Well... amazingly enough, it's actually repaired the ridges to some extent! They're still there, but only if you look for them, instead of being very noticeable like before. And they haven't peeled back any further since I started using the products, so pretty soon they'll be gone completely.
Let's move on to the before and after photos, shall we?
Here's the old ghastly "before" photo...
Two weeks ago after the first manicure...
And after two weeks!
That's looking pretty good, right? Just look at how far my nails have grown out, while looking stronger than before. Normally they would've starting splitting and breaking off long before they'd reach this point! In fact, I don't know if I remember the nail on my index finger ever being this long before.
And now, as a completely unrelated bonus, have some pictures of what I had for lunch. Because it was quite yummy.
Two slices of multigrain bread, topped with light cream cheese with cucumber (Philadelphia), fresh parley and ground black pepper, along with a bowl of lowfat yoghurt with fresh raspberries and a splash of sugarfree strawberry syrup.
