[ Fooodies: Carrot Cake - AH ]

Hello! How have you been?

Ya know, I shouldn't be writing this post right now because I studied till 3 AM for my exam 

and I only slept for 3 hours. I'm super tired actually, but my blog gives me strenght lol

I'm super excited about this fooodie! I think I found my new true love <3

Last week my good friend visited me and we went to the supermarket (Albert Heijn).
She told me she was addicted to something and she really wanted me to taste it.

Can you guys guess it? (doh it's in your title)

My friend is super addicted to CARROT CAKE! She told me she almost eats it 3 times a week. "Dayum dat sheeets must be good" was my first thought =p

I've heard about carrot cake before and I've seen a lot of pictures and recipe videos.

Carrot cake is all over the internet!
But to be honest, it never appealed to me for some reason. Maybe because it's not that popular in the Netherlands? I've never seen it in any bakery before, only at Starbucks maybe. I always found it a weird combination.. Carrots and cake? They're both sweet, but nehh..

OK. I tried it. It was an instantaneous FOOD... wait for it .. GASM!

(damn I hate that word but I can't think of a better one at the moment)

The SMELL, dayum, (poet-mode!)

Hints of nutmeg and cinnamon as if we're baking cookies during fall...

Carrot cake, look what you're doing to me lol. Don't make me start writing poems about the taste!

The smell was heavenly, but the taste was even better!
The cake was super moist, the sweetness was perfect, the spices weren't overpowering, with every bite you could feel different textures in your mouth: moist cake, crunchy walnut, sticky glace and more crunchy walnut! I'm always scared when I see glace on food, but this combination was PERFECTION. The glace wasn't too sweet at all.

Like I said before, this cake is perfection. The only thing I would alter is.. MORE CRUNCHY NUTS ON THE TOP. And the best thing is: We only paid €2.17 for 3 pieces of carrot cake!

Yummyness~

Price

I hope you guys will try it out! it's so goood

xx Ka Wai 

[ Dayre ]

Hi everybody!

My best friend told me about this app, Dayre. It's new micro blogging app for smartphones! Normally I wouldn't be interested lol, but since I started this blog on Blogspot I thought I should try it out and give it a chance ^^

Dayre is like an online diary with lots of extra stuff! You can post pictures, videos, edit your photos with filters, insert cute stickers and mini blog posts (500 words per post). It's also possible to share your location (dis is for all dem stalkers out there lol).

Homescreen

Stickers

I think this app is really easy to use, because you can update your post right away. You only have to upload a photo, video or sticker and write random stuff and Dayre will do the magic. You will have a complete "blogpost" at the end of the day before you even realise it. 

This app compiles all your blogposts of that day in a chronological story. 

I'm still going to use Blogspot for special events/moments. And of course to share awesome sheets with you guys! Dayre will be a place for daily, actual, random, (boring), but personal updates. Don't even know if I will be using it in the future. 

Here's the URL to my Dayre account for the people who want to read my daily stuff: http://dayre.me/kawaima

DON'T CARE FLIP YA HAIR!

Ka Wai

[ Fooodies: Black Pepper Potatoes; KFC ]

Hey y'all!

Here's my first fooodies review (HOORAY) and our guest for today is: Black Pepper Potatoes
I went to KFC yesterday. It's been a loooooong time since I ate there.
I missed my hot wings qq

So I ordered a Hot Wings menu (like always) and Mantik chose the Zinger Burger menu and suddenly I saw a man eating the black pepper potatoes. The first thing I thought was: DAYUM, they lookin' fine! 

The potatoes looked like flat ribbed fries sprinkled with black pepper and other seasonings.

The results: They were delicious! The fries were crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. The seasoning was spot on and you could definitely taste the black pepper. It wasn't spicy though! They remind me of the twister fries from Burger King. It was really good~~ 


The price was a bit on the expensive side. We paid €2.49 for one portion. And the portion was not as big as shown in the advertisment *why colonel? whyyy?!*
But I thought it was worth it. You will not be dissapointed! ^^

Here are some pictures I took myself! 

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Yummyness~

Ka Wai 

[ The birth of fooodies! ]

Hey guys,

For the readers who don't know me yet: I am passionate about a lot of things.. and one of my biggest passions is...

Wait for it...

FOOOD

I know, I know, everybody loves food bladiebla..
But my love for food is different (my friends will agree on that)! I'll give you some examples lol

1. I love cooking and baking (I cook almost everyday)
2. I have a lot of cookbooks! (see picture ↓)

3. I ALWAYS think about food
4. I tried to make a recipe book in 2008 (not finished though)
5. On YouTube I'm only subscribed to cooking shows lol
6. 24kitchen is my favorite tv channel xD

Yeah.. I'm not sure if I should be proud of it LOL




But because of this I figured I should also do something with food on my blog.

Here are some ideas:
- Share my own recipes
- Blog about cookbook recipes I tried and how they turned out
- Food/snack/restaurant reviews
- Weird/strange foods

- Food challenges

- Handy tips and tricks a.k.a life hacks

I will label these posts with: fooodies
And no, its not a typo. It's foodies with 3 o's just like happy dooodling.
I'll explain it later~
There's a funny story behind it.

I hope these reviews and recipes will be useful to you!

Ka Wai

[ A bad habit ]

Huee guys!

This is my first blogpost *gasp*
I've never blogged before... so I'm kinda excited and nervous at the same time! 

Why did I start blogging? 

Firstly, thank you for asking! LOL I'm a loner, I know.. xd
I've never had the habit of documenting my life. I didn't have a diary when I was little, I didn't take pictures, I only had my memory. 

Do you see the problem here?!

My memory isn't THAT great. So lots of fun stuff that happened in my life would slowly disappear out of my head. Yup... true story qq

Luckily my parents and one of my best friends did take pictures of important happenings in my life like: birthdays, outings with family and friends, my graduation, school proms etc. 

Even though they documented these special moments of my life.. It's still different from my own experience. I was in all the pictures, but I couldn't show other people what I saw, what amused me and what touched me. Simply because I didn't care to take some pictures or write about it. 

This bad habbit changed when Mantik (my sweet bf) bought me a camera for my 20th birthday. He got me a Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR! I immediately fell in love with this camera <3

My parents did have a digital camera, a super small canon, but the memory card was CRAP-DE-LA-CRAP. We had a memory card with only 256 MB (whuuut?!).
It was a nightmare!
For example: When I went to Rome with my graduation class, I could only take 90+/- photos and I had to delete pictures to make room for other pictures!


OK. Back to 2014. 

When I started taking more and more pictures. I realised it's fun and important to document my life, because this way I won't forget all the memories I've made with my loved ones. And now I love to share these memories with other people!

Ok, You're capturing memories with a camera now. But why start a blog?
People always say: a picture says more than a thousand words etc.
I don't think this is correct. 
Photos can capture activities, (fake) emotions, happenings and landscapes.

But pictures CAN'T capture my thoughts at that specific moment, my view on certain things, my opinion about stuff and my inner emotions.

The only way to know someone's state of mind is when someone tells you or when he/she writes it down.
So, a blog is a better way to document these kinds of emotions, opinions, views than a camera.

I think it's fun to read how I thought about stuff when I was younger.. just to see how I've changed! 

Well, this is my answer. I hope I can keep up this blog and share happy, sad, exciting and fun moments with my family and friends and with you guys <3

DON'T CARE FLIP YA HAIR 

Have a nice day =D

xx Ka Wai