The power of music - self recovery playlist

Music is a big love in my life but it's a love that comes and goes. I don't really understand it myself but let me try to explain. I've been playing music, singing, listening to music since I was a little girl but I have episodes (days, weeks, months even) when I don't really listen to and search for new music (except for the radio in my car). I actually find this a bit embarrassing to admit but well, you might know by now that I'm very bad at habits and keeping up with music is one of those things that need a lot of work still. Having said this, I do have a subscription to Deezer (a streaming service like Spotify) and I wouldn't want to live without my playlists. One of the playlist that has gotten a lot of attention lately has been my Recovery playlist. It's a playlist with songs to give me more self confidence, promote/create self love, leave past mistakes behind, forgive myself, recover from everything that's is haunting me (which is also a story for another time) and just clear my mind.

Mashed Potato & Caramelized Onion Patties

It's been too long since my last (and first) food post! If you missed that I talked about how to make my super fast avocado dip. I love reading food posts on other blogs and even though I'm no "kitchen princess" as we like to say in Belgium, I like food and I'd love to do more food posts myself. So why the food-post-break then? There's even a whole category for it! Well, I thought we would have moved by now but renovations are still not finished. That means no kitchen with my own name on just yet, patience Margot. Not having your own space makes preparing food posts a little harder. Especially since my mom and brother will look at me weird when I want to take pictures of my food at every angle before eating it. But after almost two months of nothing food related here on the blog I just couldn't wait any longer to try some new things, so I sneaked an afternoon of cooking in my mom's kitchen in my calendar and made these incredible mashed potato and caramelized onion patties.

21 reasons why you should love yourself

Initially I was going to write an entirely different blog post. A post about me feeling horrible, sad, unworthy of love and ashamed of my body. A feeling that started after viewing some pictures of myself on my 25th birthday party. Last Friday I had thought that I looked gorgeous in my shiny bright blue dress but I must have been wrong. Feeling sexy must have been a mistake. I just couldn't shake the sadness and the shame and kept thinking "If this is how other people see me, why do they love me? Why does he love me?" If you too are feeling ashamed of how you look, I am here to tell you you don't have to be.  You are allowed to love yourself. No matter what. That's what I realized, looking again and again at those pictures. Feeling sexy wasn't a mistake.

5 minute avocado dip

Even though this looks like guacamole, I wouldn't dare call it gaucamole. Or sometimes I do, when I'm with friends. But it's not, because there's no tomato, onion or jalapeño involved. It's a simplified avocado dip with exactly the same purpose as guacamole: to enjoy with some crispy tortilla chips (or any other purpose you would use guacamole for, but let's be real: it's best for dipping triangle shaped crispy heaven!). It really only takes 5 minutes to make this and you don't need a whole lot of ingredients. So let's whip this up, shall we?