The Coffee Lab, Worthy's Festival still going on...

 Beer festival this coming weekend with lots of other activities like a Dog show, Bell ringing,  Competitions , Music and so much more....Pop in to see it :D

 Last Saturday I met my friend at the grounds to go to see the Start of the Festival. We bumped into someone very proud of his coffee stain ;p How unusual ;) I thought to myself... He told us , his Cafe is opened today,

  so we decided to start the festival with the coffee.

 Coffee lab, that sound sooo goood and quality too :) That really explained the stain ;)

 Here is my special coffee being made and cake being cut. I couldn't possibly have the cake, as I already had tons of ice-cream with my lovely God Daughters before I met my friend in Kings Worthy ...She didn't resist and had that yum cake.

This is my coffee, beautifully done...

 It was made by professionals. This little card, would provide you with info, how to get on the course to become Home Barista, Professional Barista Level One, Filter Brewing course and if you like Latte Art, you can try that too ;)

 So if you love your cuppa , just like I do, maybe you would give it a go ...and get yourself on that course !

So what do you think?

 While enjoying a sun outside on the Cafe balcony, we were offered some water from a lovely member of staff and talked coffee of course ;D I mentioned, I had a coffee plant, when I was about 15 , had it for few years. I had to leave it to my parents to take care of it and all my other plants while I went to America. The Coffee plant sadly died.

 Anyway...these are the fresh unroasted coffee beans , which I was given for the experiment by friendly guy, who works there. I thought what a lovely family business it is. The owners are so passionate about coffee and that is how you should be, having whatever business. Passionate, devoted, proud of what you do and driven !!! That is what they are and they do run a successful business.

 So here are my coffee beans, which I will try to plant and grow into healthy coffee plants...

We will see if it works... They asked me to come back to show them how I am doing with growing them.

 We than walked around the grounds ...

met few more friendly people...it is nice to see the community to gather and have some lovely times socializing ...

Hope to go to Bell ringing on the weekend.

That must be something !!

What about 6 am? I would be sooo popular ;D Someone 

would have to push me out of the bed first...so it is not happening ;p

Vanilla xx

Blackberries and corn , Summer is gone

Yes , end of August, end of Summer holiday...

is when you enjoying corn and blackberries.

Easy to make Blackberry desert. 

You could call it Messy Missi Blackberry if you like ;)

You will need : freshly picked ,blackberries.

I love our organic , juicy and massive blackberries. My Darling was picking them every day, when we were staying home in Slovakia with my parents. 

It is some kind of tradition or daily routine,when we are back home,

We walk around the garden and each time,there is something new and ripe to pick.

Can't wait to have my own garden.

One day...:)

 This was the desert for the party I organised. As we all are away a lot,we don't get to see our family and friends very often. So I thought ,lets invite all those lovely people around to spent day with us and have a good time.

Ingredients needed for this delicious treat:

1 box of meringues
1 box of cream cheese
1 whip cream
Stevia natural sweetener
and Vanilla sugar

Blackberries

Mint to decorate the puds ;D

Whip your cream, mix it gently into the cream cheese. Add Stevia and bit of Vanilla sugar, it does make a different really ;D it smells and tastes beautiful.

Crush blackberries ( I do it with the fork ) they don't have to be pureed just crushed ;p so juice runs out of them a bit and that will colour the mixture of cream and cream cheese lovely. 

Break meringues mix them in and share mixture between glasses.

Decorate with mint and blackberries .

I was surprised , when I asked my Darling to bring me some Mint, he brought some mint flowers too. That was nice touch I thought. They looked really yummy.

And they really were. 

You still might find some Blackberries somewhere out there in the meadows or on the side of the  woods.

Or in supermarket ...and romantica is gone ;) supermarket's blackberries...hmm better then no blackberries at all...when you feel like you have got to give it a go and make that scrum pud.

Enjoy and let me know, how you have got on...

It's easy ;)

Love Vanilla xx

Kuala Lumpur next

After amazing time in Singapore we wanted to go to Kuala Lumpur. We decided to get there by overnight train. It would be great experience and also you can save money for not booking a hotel. You can book train on website: http://www.ktmb.com.my/, although it never worked for me. The website always showing no trains available, so I e-mailed office and did reservation, all nice and quick. But, once we got to Singapore it turned out they lost our reservation and what was worst there was no train for day we needed. Luckily we found out we can buy bus ticket on the day of departure and also you can purchase vip tickets. Vip tickets means reclining, big chairs and only 4 people including 2 of us in a compartment. Journey takes about 6 hours including crossing border which by the way was quick and easy. Also all the buses are departing from Singapore center, whilst if your travel via train to Kuala Lumpur, you have to get to Woodlands, it takes you about 30 min, then you have to take bus to Woodlands Train Station which takes you another 20 min and then another bus that will take you to Johor Bahru Station and then you get train to your final destination. So lots of hassle, time consuming and very poor customer service.
We have spend 3  nights in Kuala Lumpur wich is more then enough. Below few pictures from places we have seen and been to.

That's what happen when you drank and you trying to take picture ( as you can guess it is Kuala Lumpur at night )

KLCC

Petronas Towers

The scary part about Petronas Towers is the Skybridge, a double decker connecting both Towers, located on the 41 and 42 floor. The Bridge is not attached to the structure but instead is designed to slide in and out to prevent it from breaking, which in my case I could see it and feel it. My husband said to me that suddenly my face became very pale and I just couldn't move. Before you get here you have to buy ticket and book time to entry Petronas Tower Sky Bridge. And tickets are limited to about 1000 a day. But really worth it. In our ticket we have included entry to the 86 floor which was amazing and seemed more safe  to me, lol. 

 Lunch brake :)

Batu Caves

Orchid garden

Bird Park

Butterfly park

Sultan Palace

National Mosque

And of course shopping

I always recommend to visit Kuala Lumpur, but it wasn't one of my favorites place. I didn't feel safe there, also cousin with Arabic and Indian influence which is not my taste at all. Kuala Lumpur is also very cheap place to be so other then plane ticket you won't spend to much money. Good place for shopping, lots of restaurants but alcohol very expensive. So much to see and to do, Kuala Lumpur  was on my must see list for long time, it seemed to me like a dream. And as you can see dreams do come true, when you believe and work hard to it :)

Pepper xxx