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Fast and healthy burrito, baby!

Hi guys!

I was craving for comfort food today and decided to create a healthy version of burrito. I pretty much just improvised but it turned out to be really good! This is an easy dish to optimize (a natural choice of word for an email marketer...) to a healthier version. The bad brother of my version is pretty naughty with all its cheese. I decided to share this idea with you as a "foodspiration".

For my burrito-baby I used:

Gluten-free tortillas

Tomatoes

Cucumber

Tabasco

Home made chili salsa

A lot of home made guacamole (without cream cheese)

White beans

Boiled brown rice

Fresh coriander

Red onion

Salad on the side

Just pile everything on top of the tortillas and pop it in the oven for about 10 minutes until they warm up a bit. As usual I overestimated my hunger and thought I could eat two of these bad boys but no, one was enough!

Before the oven

Talking about burritos... I tested with a couple of friends a burrito place at Neukölln called Burrito Baby. They had vegan options as well (or maybe all of them were?). The burritos were massive and _so_gooood_. You might explode but I'd still recommend taking the nachos as a starter because WHY NOT (what I really wanted to say is: YOLO)!

Massive burrito at Burrito Baby

I recommend...

Hi guys!

There are many things I've tried recently and I think you should try them as well.

Here we go.

I recommend...

Sunday brunch with friends. Everybody brings something, you get yourself way too full, then go on talking about everything under the sun., until you feel like you can have a third piece of cake.

Frozen yogurt... especially Yoli in Berlin. You get to choose as many toppings as they can fit in the cup. And oh how they try to fit as many as possible to please you. Bless them.

Nail polish with sprinkles. Thanks to the sprinkles you get nice looking nails while balancing both your laptop and the nail polish bottle on your belly and watching Big Bang Theory at the same time. Blindfolded. Okay not the last one but the it was dark.

Balancing things on your belly brings me to recommending to see the bright side of things. See, the balancing wouldn't be as easy on the abs I was expecting to have around this time. All stiff an uneven as abs are.

The nail polish is Like "Sweets way" from nails inc.

Let it be. Or don't. "Let it be" is the new vegan café at Neukölln. They serve sweet and salty crepes, sandwiches, cakes and hamburgers.

Sales. It's on baby!! My sale shopping was spontaneous and rewarding. I was mainly excited about the sales at Sandro, my favourite shop.

Sandro, Sandro, Filippa K + the necklace 2nd hand

World Press Photo exhibition. It features the award-winning photographs from the World Press Photo Contest for press photography. This gives a good overview for what happened in 2013. Although most of the images are quite shocking and sad... You can see it in over 40 countries. It's on now in Berlin at Willy-Brandt-haus in Kreuzberg until July 3rd.

Trying out plant based diet. This has been on my mind for a while and after so many people recommended it to me, I finally rented "Forks over knives" from iTunes. It's a documentary that explains in a pretty convincing way why you should eat plant based diet... for your health, all the ethical matters being a good side effect of it.

Mini holiday in Finland

Hi Guys!

My quick trip to Finland was a while ago but here follow "found from the phone" -pictures!

My friends took me from the airport at night and we headed to a nightclub straightaway.

That's about all the glamour I had on that trip because when in Finland...

The most massive two scoops of ice cream at Kristiinankaupunki.

I got my long graved "new potatoes" and Finnish style BBQ

Islas 2-year birthday party

Isla watering the flowers with Vilma and Lallu

Sunbathing Teuva-style

Bits of May

Hi guys!

I hope you had a great weekend! I spent a longer weekend in Finland and it was great! I was checking my images from may and seems like I haven't been starving at least. Prepare yourself once again for my food images.

I baked this cute hippo-decorated cake for Ben. He's a fan of Nutella (oh yes you are, Ben!). So this is a Nutella cheesecake. Very sweet, extremely naughty but easy to make. The recipe is here.

Accuse me of starting to sound like the Finnish version of Martha Stewart but I've been dreaming of a veggie spiralizer FOREVER. You can cut veggies with it very fast, but the best part: you can make zucchini pasta with it! Noooo, using a grater IS NOT the same thing! This is all about fooling your brain into thinking you're eating a big pile of carb-a-licious pasta! I bought mine from Amazon. (here)

Please tell me the name of these flowers! I love them, they last so long!

The Book that I finished last month is a memoir of Grace Coddington. I enjoyed this book a lot! It was exciting to read about her eventful life and great a career as a creative director of Vogue.

We went to try pole dancing with some of my colleagues and had a nice dinner at Kimchi Princess afterwards. The class was great and food delicious! Awesome night! Even the long bike ride home after the dinner felt like riding an unicorn on the clouds. Or something.

Ben is the master of Risottos! This delicious dinner was waiting for me on a Friday night. I could have easily swallowed my tongue with it, that's how much I liked it :D

Then came Fanny's and mine cooking/baking night :D. We started by working out to prepare ourselves for the food (over)load. Then cooked/baked about 4 hours and finished off by watching a movie. I baked a raw blueberry cheesecake (an awesome healthy summer treat) and sweet potato brownies (that was too far from the original in my opinion. Fanny liked, but I think I could've made her happy by just offering her a spoonful of sugar ;)). Fanny prepared delicious Chinese food. Hmm, I don't know the names but everything was good xD.

Ever since Taija bought a gorgeous handbag (let's call her Céline), I realized I badly needed my own Céline as well, only I fell for Kate Spade instead.. As it happens, Riikka has a charming gentleman Michael Kors at home who had never even seen a sunlight! A bag date was needed. The bags needed a nice accessorize by their side and therefore we did our best to meet the standards. The location was a lovely rooftop lounge at Hotel de Rome.