Mini Tomato and Feta Frittatas

Yesterday I made these delicious mini frittatas for dinner. A frittata is simply a baked ommelete, and very easy to make. I found this recipe (click) for a tomato and feta frittata on a blog called Food Coma, and thought it sounded really good. But since I don't have an oven safe pan I had to find a different solution. The recipe for mini frittatas from the June/July issue of the Dutch version of Jamie magazine inspired me to make mini frittatas in a muffintray. I also adapted the recipe from Food Coma a little, because I don't have any cups to measure the ingredients. Here is my adaptation to the recipe, it will make about 6 mini-frittatas (enough for 3 -6 people, depending on whether you are having them as a main dish or a side dish). I made 5 with tomato, feta and green scallions, and one with just feta for my brother. 

Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 cloves of garlic, minced
4 eggs
2 green scallions (for the Dutchies: bosuitjes)
1 Tasty-Tom tomato
100 g feta
salt and peper

You can add less or more garlic, scallions, tomatoes and feta, depending on your taste.

Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celcius, and grease (do this well, it will make it much easier to take out the frittatas once finished) 6 holes of a muffintray. In a pan, saute the garlic in the olive oil for 1 minute over medium heat. In a bowl, whisk together the eggs + salt and pepper. Chop the green scallions. Add the garlic and green scallions to the egg mixture. Pour some egg mixture into each hole that you greased in your muffintray. Cut the tomato into pieces (they don't have too be too small) and crumble the feta. Add tomato and feta (again, don't make it too small) to the egg mixture in the holes of the muffintray. Put the muffintray into the oven and bake for about 12 minutes, so that the frittatas have turned golden-brown. Let them cool a bit before taking out of the tray.

I served these mini frittatas with Turkish bread and a simple salad with tomatoes.

If you don't like tomatos or feta, you can add other ingredients, such as mushrooms, ham, bacon, other types of cheese.

Are you going to try out these mini frittatas?

Yay!

Remember I blogged about Daily Noted's give-away last week? The winner was announced today, and I won! I'm really surprised, especially since it was the first time I joined a give-away. Thank you to the girls from Daily Noted!

I won four Safari nailpolishes, a bag of fimo canes and two nailpolish wheels! A great prize, because a girl can never have enough nailpolish, and I didn't have any fimo canes or nailpolish wheels yet. Once I receive the prize I will dedicate a blogpost to it and let you know what I think of the products.

Some new things

Yesterday I met up with 2 good friends, Kim and Yolanda (I hadn't seen her in 3 years! And Kim had never met Yolanda before.) in Utrecht. We had a lot of fun, and of course we spent most of our time shopping. I think we spent about 45 minutes in the H&M, and in the end we all bought the same cardigan, but in different colours. I bought a light blue one, Kim a dark blue one and Yolanda a pink one. Now we're cardigan triplets! Here are some pictures of the things I bought (and got).

The cardigan that I bought. It looks a bit weird on this picture, but I couldn't be bothered to do all the buttons.

A white singlet with black stripes and bows. Also from H&M.

A present from Yolanda, two photoframes and Autodrop (candy/liquorice in the shape cars). Yolanda put pictures of the three of us in the big photoframe, and wrote next to it that we could use it for the first picture of the three of us together.






I also bought caramel tea at the Xenos, but I don't have a picture of that. And Kim gave me and Yolanda chocolate muffins, but we ate them straight away so we don't have any pictures of those.

Did you go shopping or get any presents recently?

David & Goliath

"We make stupid stuff, so you don't have to."

David & Goliath is a brand which was founded in 2000. They make different items, including clothes (ranging from sweaters to pyjama pants), with a sense of humour. The items have prints of well-known David & Goliath characters, and often also have funny sayings, for example: "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them.". The brand focuses on girls and young women, but they are also starting to make things for men.

I really like the range of characters and sayings that are printed on the different items sold by David & Goliath. Sadly there is no David & Goliath shop in The Netherlands. So when I was in London, I just had to go there! I ended up visiting both the shop at Covent Garden and the one in Carnaby Street, because at Covent Garden they didn't have the items I liked in my size. Both shops are amazing, so if you are ever in London (or any other place where there is a David & Goliath shop), walk in, even if it's just to laugh at the funny items they sell. You can see the items I bought in London in my England shoplog, which you will find a few posts down. 

Here are some more items that I like:

 

 What do you think of David & Goliath? Do you have any David & Goliath items?

Tea Tree Oil

Tea tree oil comes from a tree, the Melaleuca alternifolia, which only grows in Australia. This oil can be used to treat skin problems, something which the Aboriginals have already known for ages. The oil has many powerful sides, it for example kills bacteria and works as a painkiller. I have been using products containing Tea Tree oil for about 5 years, and at the moment I wouldn't want to use any different products for my face. I initially started using it as a treatment against my acne, but the products are still very useful when most of your acne has disappeared. The brand I use is called Courtin, and they have many different products containing Tea Tree oil, ranging from a face wash to foot cream. Of course there are also other brands selling Tea Tree products, I have seen some products in The Netherlands at Kruidvat, The Body Shop and De Tuinen.

My daily Tea Tree product ritual, which I would recommend to anyone, with or without acne:

Night (before I go to bed)
- clean face with the hand and face wash
- apply 24 hour cream (a day and night cream in one!) to face

- put a dab of pure tea tree oil on pimples (don't put it on your whole face, because it will dry out your skin! Also do not use it when you are going into the sun because, in combination with sunlight, it will bleach your skin.)

Morning (when I come out of the shower)
- apply 24 hour cream

These three products (the hand and face wash, the 24 hour cream and the pure tea tree oil) are the ones I use most. I really like the smell of the products, but for some people it takes a while to get used to it. My favourite product is the 24 hour cream, because it makes my skin really soft.

Do you use products containing Tea Tree oil, or did you ever use them? And what do you think of them?

Daily Noted's Give-away!

Daily Noted is one of my favourite blogs. It is run by 7 girls, and they each have their own day on which they post an article. This means there is a new article every day! The girls write in Dutch, but I think it's worth it to look at their blog even if you don't speak Dutch. I think the blog is very original, because the articles are not just about one theme, they are very diverse. So if you don't know Daily Noted yet, just go have a look!

Yesterday, Daily Noted started a give-away (<- click) to celebrate the fact that they have more than 100 followers (quite amazing because they only started a bit over 7 months ago) and 50,000 pageviews. And the prizes in this give-away are quite amazing! You can win 2 nail wheels, a bag containing about 500 fimo figures and 4 Safari nailpolishes.

I joined the give-away, are you going to join it too?

Blueberry Muffins



This afternoon I made some delicious (well actually I haven't tasted them yet, but I already made them before and they were delicious) blueberry muffins! And it's actually quite easy to make them, here is the recipe:

According to the book I used, this recipe will make 12 muffins. I got 18 out of it, so I think it really depends on the size of the holes in your muffintray.

Ingredients

115 g very fine granulated sugar

1 tablespoon grated lemonpeel
300 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 whisked (not sure whether this is the right word to use, but just whisk/mix them with a fork) eggs
2 1/2 dl milk
115 g butter, molten
1 teaspoon vanilla-essence
350 g blueberries (fresh or frozen)

Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius, gas setting 4. Put 12 paper liners in a muffinplate.

Use a spoon to mix the sugar, lemonpeel, flour and baking powder in a middle-sized bowl. Use a mixer to mix the eggs (remember to whisk them with a fork before doing this),  milk, molten butter and vanilla essence in a different bowl for one minute. Add the dry ingredients to this mixture, add the blueberries and use a spoon to mix everything. It is allowed to be a bit lumpy. Put the mixture in the muffin shapes.

Bake the muffins for 20 minutes. Take the muffinplate out of the oven and leave it for 5 minutes. Take out the muffins and enjoy!

Source: 500 cupcakes by Fergal Connolly

If anyone wants the Dutch recipe, just ask, and I will copy or scan it for you! :]

Are you going to make these muffins?