As we are approaching St Patrick's Day, I thought it apt to show some of the green items for sale in the Cudeca Charity Shop that I volunteer in on Plaza de Merced, here in Malaga.
If you like the look of any of them, make sure to get down to the shop first thing on Monday morning to buy when the shop opens. Particularly if you plan to wear green on St Patrick's Day!
I decided I'd change up my Keto bread (see recipe here) and add lemon juice and poppy seeds to see if I could make it more of a cake instead of a bread.
Well it worked out beautifully and tastes great. Lovely, lemony and zesty!
This loaf was a hit and I'll definitely make it again......but for the moment it's going on my plate along with a few slices gone in to the freezer for another day.
The Picasso Museum here in Malaga is open until 5pm on Sundays with free entry in for the last 2 hours. Normally there would be a massive queue for this attraction during most of the year but with reduced tourists numbers in the city, due to Covid, we were able to rock up at 3pm and head straight in to the permanent Picasso exhibition and the newly opened Barceló exhibition.
In PIGSY art news, I can report that there are now PIGSY's in Singapore. See here for details of The Ireland Funds Singapore "A Sense of Ireland 2021" Festival.
In addition to the above, we are working away on PIGSY's next solo show which is coming up at the end of March in La Casa Amarilla, Ciaran is finalising the art work selection and getting pieces framed and stretched. While I'm working on the promotion end of things, writing press releases and getting press packs together. All a lot of fun and very exciting for PIGSY to have an art exhibition here in Spain!
On Saturdays I volunteer in the Cudeca Charity Shop on Plaza de la Merced here in Malaga.
Today there was the most beautiful vintage Barbie for sale in the window. Last week there was a different two (see my blog here) but I have to say I really liked this one. It would look perfect at the top of most Christmas trees - yes, that's what I like to do with Barbie dolls!
So I did a yellow on yellow clothes display. However, it looked like a bit too much yellow so I switched it up and added a blue scarf and a hat with a blue decorated band.
Not too sure which one I prefer. Let me know what you think!
Very exciting to wake up to an article in the Irish Times about PIGSY's art and our life here in Malaga on our "year out" otherwise known as a career break.
With the article up online, I spent the morning promoting it on social media and updating the PIGSY website with the details on the Press and Media section. It was quite incredible the amount of traffic it sent to his website and all day he was receiving texts about the article along with emails and of course lots of instagram messages too. A fun busy day for sure!
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Great to see a new café open here in Malaga. It's Helvetik and is located on Calle San Juan (in what I think was formerly an ice cream shop). I look forward to trying their coffee!
I had seen this sugar free very dark chocolate by Valor in my local Carrefour and wondered what it was like and what I could make from it. Valor is a famous brand of Spanish chocolate and when I looked closer at the packaging I saw that it was made with Stevia in place of sugar. I'm intrigued by Stevia and wondered what it would be like in the chocolate.......oh and I also love dark chocolate!
In order to make the bark, I melted two bars of the chocolate (it broke up so beautifully with an excellent chocolate "snap" sound) and then added roasted and salted almonds along with a small bit of shredded coconut. I then sprinkled the top with a bit of salt for more flavour.
Here is how it turned out
Here's the nutritional info for the chocolate (per 100g)
Energy - 568 kcal
Fat - 49g (31g of which saturates)
Carbohydrate - 19g (o.5g of which sugars)
Protein - 11g
It tasted absolutely delicious - we had a little bit after our OMAD dinner yesterday evening. A really nice treat and there is a big stack in the freezer now so we can have a little bit every time we want a little treat.
Check this out!
I like the look of these Peanut Bars. Peanut flour is a new one on me. Have YOU heard of it?!
So I like to track things - and I get a kick out of looking at stats, particularly for my blog on the Blogger website and also on PIGSY's squarespace website, which I maintain.
So, for those who are interested, here's some stats about this blog
My stats, after blogging for close to 10 years, are that I am averaging about 50-60 hits a day. LAst month there were 1493 views of the blog while this month there has already been over 1600 views with 7 days to go.
I should note that when I share my posts on Social Media I get increased views. However, I don't share all of my posts due to their content, for various reasons.
In total, I have had 1494559 all time views on the blog. That's quite a number!!
In non-stat related news, Ciaran and I were interviewed by CLIC here in Malaga - you can click here to read part 1 of the interview and part 2 here and part 3
