Crunchy PecaNut

Yesterday Szamos' Poppyseed mousse, Starbuck's Strawberry and Cream Frappuccino and the Strawberry cheesecake wasn't enough sugar rush, I was starving for sweet food. I thought I am sweet enough, but maybe not on this weekend :)

So continuing the creative cooking/baking period I came up with the following idea:
cheesecake crust, poured with hot, fluid Nutella and covered with pecan nut and maple syrup cream (with butter, eggs blabla). Aaah, so hot! Now I feel like entering the heaven.

Savory grey mullet

Some months ago, when I still lived in Germany, some of my friends told me, that there is a new fish market opened near my hometown. I imagined something really biiig, like Tsukiji in Tokyo :)
In December I visited it with a friend, and the whole market turned out to be a small shop, tinier than my living room, and with unfriendly sellers! But if I was already there, bought some fishes seemed exciting. One of them was the grey mullet. And because it is Sunday, also Hinamatsuri in Japan (girl's day), it is a great time to cook something healthy after eating Poutine and "gesztenyepüré" (sweet chestnut puree with lots of whipped cream).. O.o

Here it is, a very easy recipe found on a forum, and transformed it a little bit according to my taste and fridge:

• 200 g grey mullet
• 2 tbs freshly pressed red orange juice
• pepper mix
• 6 leaves ramsons (bear garlic or bear leek)
• 2 big long slides of bacon - baked and cut into small pieces
• 1/4 cup breadcrumb

 This is also the order, how to place it into a pot and bake it for about 20 minutes on 175 °C.
One of the most deliscious fish I have ever eaten!
Note to self: breadcrumb could be roasted a bit before.

Putin try :)

Found an interesting food on Twitter (see, professional growing sometimes has additional advantages): a Canadian one, called "poutine".
The base recipe is very simple: fried potato, curd cheese and brown gravy. From the 3 main ingredients which one can be bought in my country? Potato :D Zzzzzzzz... nothing similar to curd cheese, so had to improvise and bought Bulgarian goat cheese. And cooked brown gravy, which turned out to be caramel brown, so I added artificial coloring.

Because of my own strict rules, be consequent, I cannot call it poutine (however I found a "Greek poutine" recipe with feta cheese). So how to name the baby? Goutine!? :)

The world of monochrome - part 1.

Found a nice video tutorial for painting. I tried to follow the instructions, more or less with success.

This is a monochrome winter picture, only 2 colors were used: white and burnt umber.

Little Blue Girl

Practising this Photoshop stuff. Grrr... After trying to paint everything by mouse, I made a decision: hurt for a digital tablet! So the finishing touches have been already done by my Wacom.

The drawing were created with pencil and later inked with artistic pen.
Scanned and transferred to PS.
Coloring, coloring, coloring, drinking, shit what happened, eraser... better to go to bed... new day, new life, coloring, coloring... something similar was the process. :)

The little blue girl is Isanami from Brave10.
The background was downloaded from the net and I applied wind effect on it to make it more blurry.

Enjoy it with some nice jazz music by Diana Krall:

Sunset scene

Found a nice palette knife technique picture, and tried to make similar - but with brush. Damn, wasn't the best idea, as the knife leaves different lines, but as I don't have it and don't know the exact technique yet, I had to work with the tool I have at home.
Made it also for a friend of mine, and I'm really happy that she liked it:

Slowly I should find out how to paint a signo on it :)

Upside down drawing

I am reading the book Drawing on the right side of the brain by Betty Edwards and doing the drawing tasks.
A very interesting example is if you turn a picture upside down, your left brain gets confused and refuses the participation. So your right brain can be the leader and finally you are in R-mode (Right brain mode), your imagination is free, you will care only about the curves, lines, angles and portions; and do not care anymore what you are drawing.

I made two drawings today. The first is the way how I draw it, the second when I turned it.
Picasso's Igor Stravinsky:

Horse from unknown artist: