Be thankful

Thanks to a very good friend of mine I am trying to be more thankful.

He reminded me of how lucky I am to be who I am, to be able to do the things I want to, to be able to think about others, to be able to live the life I am living.

People need to take more time being thankful for everything they have. 

I was frustrated because on that day everything seemed to be going wrong. Literally everything. At least I thought so. I missed my train, my bus, wrote a bad test (at least I thought so - it felt so bad), let things fall down, spilled my drink.....

So what if I miss my train? I can take the next one ten minutes later. It doesn't matter if I come to school ten minutes later. I should be thankful I can go to school. Thankful I have enough money to use the train. Thankful my body is capable of running to the train instead of being sick. Thankful I am actually able to think about how much this missed train affects my life instead of thinking whether I will survive this day, get enough to eat and drink, see my family and friends.

Same goes for the bus. So what?

The test turned out a whole lot better than I expected. I should believe in myself more.

Oh well, things fell down and spilled. Keep it together felilu! Geeeez.

I am thankful for being healthy, having amazing family and friends, time (!), enough money to live a great life... (wow. I'm one of the 8%...).

Thank You God.

Photo Project: "New"

I love finding new things (another one for my I love... posts)

The new thing in my life right now is meeting two friends at a café and playing a game. First of all it was the first time we three met up and second of all: playing games at a café/restaurant. So cool! It was great and we all decided we'd have to do it more often.

In spring we'll take our bikes on the train and ride out into the country to do a reeeeeally long bike trip. The three of us plus our bikes and my camera - it's going to be awesome. And new :) 

New friends, new things to do with them, new photography location in all of the beautiful fields out there.

I'm excited already. But right now I even if nobody else is... am enjoying the cold weather. I prefer snow but hey - you can't have everything can you?

Recipe: Orange Chicken

So the other day we wanted to cook one of our favorite recipes: General Tso's Chicken.

We came back from food shopping and realised we forgot the ginger. Since we were definitely too lazy to go back we decided we had to cook something else.

So onto Pinterest I went. I found this amazing recipe on my Snacks & Main Dishes board.

It looked interesting and I had pinned it ages ago so I thought we could give it a shot since we had already cut the chicken.
We tweaked it a bit since 1) we don't have a slow cooker and 2) I can't follow recipes.

Ingredients:

500g chicken breast (cut into bite-size pieces)
sunflower oil
juice from 3 oranges
3 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp salt
pepper
4 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 egg
3 tbsp cornstarch
750 ml water
+ rice

Heat up a pan with sunflower oil (better for frying than olive oil). Meanwhile mix the orange juice, ketchup, 1/2 tbsp salt, brown sugar, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar in a small bowl. Mix the egg with the cornstarch in a larger bowl and add some salt and pepper. Dip the chicken into the egg mixture and start frying it in the pan. When the chicken is lightly golden brown, add the ketchup-orange sauce to the pan. As soon as it starts a-cracklin', pour in some water. Repeat this process until the chicken is completely cooked and serve with rice.

Done ! And it tastes reeeeeally good!

Have fun and tweak the recipe if you can't follow them like me ;)

I Love...

...being able to wake up to him in the morning. Not every morning, but sometimes... <3