Snow, snow and more snow. Grey clouds and bitter frost. The will of spending days on the couch with a blanket and a movie. Still, I bury myself in a humongous scarf, warm hat and trusty UGGs and drive to work.
The traffic is sluggish and seems endless. Snow makes life slow. Winter makes me drowsy and less productive. I have no appetite these days. Ignoring that I push myself to eat. Still learning how to taste everything. To be well for to see the heaps of snow melt, the flowers bloom and birds return to my backyard. To be well for the next year’s winter and fall in the melancholic mood of it again.
My WIAW pictures — so boring. Though anyways, the things I ate while snowing.
First meal: (still don’t know how to call it, because it’s neither breakfast nor lunch) Fruit and yogurt.
Lunch in the café.
Snack: these are my favorites at the moment. Rice Cake pizzas. Topics vary every day.
Dinner: the usual quick meal when I’m lazy to cook. Chicken + Salad. Dressing is always some kind of oil + lemon juice.
Dessert: decaf coffee and homemade chocolate truffles (I actually had two). Plus some reads.
Oh, winter! I hope you are enjoying yours?!
Have a cozy coffee break, my beloved readers!
xoxo
Coffee Addict 
❤
aww!! That’s the cutest EVER 🙂 Love you too. Your meals today looked delicious. So lucky that it is snowing over there!
No, hun! I’m lucky to manage to dig out my Beetle out of the snowdrift 😀 every morning! Nowadays it’s just too much. But we’re having White Christmas over here after all!
Greta, those snow photos are gorgeous. I’m not a huge fan of snow whatsoever, but I almost wish i were there to experience it w/ you! Also, your meals (especially the rice cake combo) look delicious.
Have a wonderful day hunnie ❤
Oh, please come over! After a cozy chat over some tea, you could help me shovel the snow near my house. Good exercise 😀 but I bet you wish to be somewhere warm after all!
Thank you for this kind comment, Jessie. And have a great day yourself!
xo
–i’m actually not a huge fan over warm drinks (weird right?), but we’ll just pretend that the smoothie I’m drinking is tea, I would love to help you shovel. Growing up my brother & I were always in charge of shoveling the driveway, so you better believe that I’m pretty much a pro at it Ha Ha!
Now, I’d really like you to come, you shoveling-pro 😀 😀 😀
Also you could teach me how to make a good smothie – I suck at this! But I guess I should dig into your blog to find some tips about the latter! 😉
Those pictures of snow are breathtaking. I hope we have snow here for Christmas! We’ve had some, it’s just that none of it has stuck 😦
I think your neither breakfast nor lunch could be called Brunch! 🙂
I wish I could send some snow over!!!
Though usually we don’t appreciate things we have, you know “the grass is always greener on the other side” 🙂
Have a great day!
Your photos are stunning! And I love the effect of snowing on the page!
I am enjoying cappuccinos and milano cookies this winter from my office at home! 🙂
The cappuccinos and milanos – ahh, so Italian!
Jealous!
xoxo
Not much snow here in Michigan yet. It’s been too warm!
Come on?!!!! Don’t tempt me to visit! 😀 😀 😀
I want the truffle. I make them myself. I wonder if your recipe is anything like mine. They are easy to make. And so yummy!
No snow here. (Northwest Washington state)
Gosh, I want to know your recipe Gel! I finished mine yesterday and I’m thinking about making some more of those chocolate wonders. Could I ask you to make a post on your treats, please? 😉
Yup!. I’ll do that, today if I can make the time.
It will take too much time for me to do my own post on this so….
Think I’ll just give a quick set of tips here.
I suggest that you skip the bar of chocolate, use coconut oil and if you can find it (food quality) cocoa butter instead. If you can’t find cocoa butter, then just use coconut oil.
Melt those but don’t let them get very warm. Add honey. remove from heat. Add coconut milk, a bit of salt and vanilla and stir. It should be warm enough to melt everything but not too warm, or the oils won’t mix with the other ingredients.
Stir in cocoa power adding a spoon full at a time. keep adding cocoa powder while stirring until it’s like thick frosting. Since it’s still warm it will be soft and as it cools it will get firm/hard. So don’t make it too thick while it’s warm. Don’t over stir. Let it cool enough to form into balls. Roll in cocoa powder or coconut shreds. Serve cooled or at room temp.
The trick is to find the combination of ingredients that’s sweet enough for you and the softness or hardness that you enjoy best. More coconut milk equals softer final product. More honey equals sweeter.
Sounds easy and yummy, Gel!
Than you so much for making time to share this with me.
‘ll be creating those tonight. So exited!
Have a wonderful Friday!
xo
Oh I’ve never thought of rice cake pizzas!!!! Cool idea 😀
Yup! I love those! Crunchy pizzas! I suggest you try those, it takes 6 minutes to produce 😀
Love any recipes that doesn’t take long to make 😀
Haha! Me too!
We, surprisingly, haven’t gotten a lot of snow yet this year. I’m in New England (USA), and we usually get quite a bit. I am counting my blessings every day!
Despite having grown up with it… I really hate it. The driving, the shoveling, the soggy pants, and the bitter cold! Blech!
Oh, yeah, and we’re having this “joy” starting November up to April!!! So sympathy is accepted 😀
I should really move!
I love the snow. Where I am it is so warm right now, so I am envious.
Greta, I know you live to read. Do you find that you like to read different books when it snows?
There’s really nothing to be envious about. Winters here are just too long.
And yeah, I tend to read differently when it’ cold. Less popular literature, more classics, more Russian authors and biographies – I only read those during winter. Can’t wait to dig in a new about Coco Chanel 😉
Sitting here jealous of your sunny Friday 😦
xo
Yum.
Brrr.
I’m loving my 80 degree winter!
Get out of here, you and your 80s!
But I still have to ask – would you swap the locations? Just for a couple of hours? Please?..
As usual I love your photos! And I love your food. I never thought of rice cake pizzas before and definitely have to try that.
I’m loving that the fruit shop I go to a lot has REAL watermelon this year, instead of the seedless (tasteless) ones. Watermelon in hot hot summer weather = bliss 🙂
Love and hugs xox
You’ve never heard of rice cake pizzas, Fi? Come on?! It’s the diet food! I thought you knew it all. Still, being sensitive to gluten those allow me to at least smell the real pizza taste!
And watermelons sound divine. Especially in summer.
xo
believe it or not, nope, never even considered putting pizza toppings on rice cakes! Maybe because I’ve never been that much of a rice cake fan. I am so so so fortunate not to be gluten sensitive, truly, I wouldn’t be able to cope with all the restrictions!
The way to my heart right now is fresh cold watermelon, and lots of it lol 🙂 xx
As tasty as your watermelon sounds, I hope you’re not going to pee every five minutes, as what this fruit does to me! Hihihi!
whoops LOL it does it to me too! But I have trouble drinking enough to stay hydrated, actually I struggle to drink at all most days, so it helps with that!
Good for you, dear!
I’m so sorry, Fi, this comment just got out of my control. Hihihi! Go eat watermelon! Hydrate! 😀 😀 😀
Hahaha the comments have a life of their own!!!