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Cream contouring palette has finally arrived on drugstore shelves! It's Catrice Allround Contouring Palette, which costs 4.29 € and has very similar but sleeker packaging than their Allround Concealer one. I dont' own any other cream contour kit, so this was my first time using a product like that. It has 5 shades – 2 dark ones for creating shadows, 2 light ones and a pretty pearl shade highlighter. The palette is quite simple to use and if you don't know where to put which shade you can always look at pictures on the back. Because it is a cream product, you have to warm it up a bit first for easier application, either on your skin (between your fingers or on the back of the hand) or on the metal palette with spatula as I usually do, which is necessary especially if you work on others, for hygienic reasons. The palette is nothing special really, but it's not bad either. I kinda got the feeling that intensity faded when I put on loose powder, but maybe I just applied too little - which brings me to the next problem. The packaging is quite small and wont last long but on the other hand  it's easier for carrying it around with you because of the same reason. For this pride is definetly worth buying.

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Tudi drogerijske police so končno dočakale kremno paletko za senčenje obraza. To je Catrice Allround Contouring Palette, ki stane 4.29 €, in ima zelo podobno, vendar elegantnejšo embalažo kot njihov Allround Concealer. Ker do sedaj še nisem imela nobene kremne paletke za senčenje, sem sedaj prvič uporabila tak izdelek. Vsebuje 5 odnetkov – 2 temna za ustvarjanje senc, 2 svetla ter osvetljevalec perlaste barve. Paletka je precej enostavna za uporabo in če ne veš kam nanesti določen odtenek lahko vedno pogledaš za zadnji del embalaže. Ker je to kremni izdelek, ga je najprej  potrebno malce ogreti za lažji nanos, kar lahko storiš na koži (med prsti ali na zadnjem delu dlani) ali pa na kovinski paletki s spatulo, kot ponavadi naredim jaz, kar je  še posebej potrebno če delaš na drugih, zaradi higienskih razlogov. Paletka ni nič posebnega, vendar vseeno ni slaba. Dobila sem občutek, da sence niso bile več tako intenzivne po tem, ko sem čez dala še puder v prahu, vendar sem mogoče samo nanesla premalo intenzivno - kar pripelje do naslednjega problema. Izdelka v paletki je dokaj malo in se ga kar hitro porabi, kar je po drugi strani iz istega razloga zelo priročno, saj ga lahko nosiš s sabo kamorkoli greš. Za to ceno nakup definitivno priporočam.

Pasta in Cream Sauce With Salmon and Swiss Chard

Today I have something different for you. I don't want my blog to be just about makeup, so I decided, that I would make a recipe, because I really like to cook and eat. Cleaning after it is a different story. 

With summer around the corner, there is already seasonal vegetable available and we always have fresh swiss chard from the garden in the refrigerator. You can also use spinach instead, it wont make much of a difference.

Ingredients (for 2 persons):

- 1 salmon filet

- 50 - 100g swiss chard (depends on your taste, but keep in mind that once you put it in a pan it will      shrink drastically)

- 1 - 2 tbsp sour/cooking cream

- 2 pieces of cream spread cheese 

- soy sauce

- 3 small/ 2 bigger garlic cloves, minced

- 1/2 tsp onion powder

- 1tsp basil

- 1 pinch ground cumin

- 1 pinch curry

- salt

- pepper

 

For pasta, I used wholegrain rice fusilli, about 300g. My mother is obsessed with healthy organic food, so we rarely have anything with white flour in it. Everything is made either out of rice, spelt/dinkel wheat, corn (even that is very rare, because it's supposed to be too genetically modified) or other flour, preferably gluten free. I actually really like this, most people don't have quality food like this at home. We also don't buy a lot of processed food, which is, I guess, the main reason I learned to cook, because if I was hungry I always had to prepare my meal first, opposed to just taking it from the freezer or something like that. 

For the sauce I first added garlic on coconut oil and quickly fried it for a few seconds, just until it started to smell a bit, not too much, then I added chopped swiss chard. You can easily replace it with spinach, the outcome will be the same. I'm not sure what the difference in taste between the two of them is, but I think that spinach has a bit of a stronger taste (don't take my word on it!). Next I added about 1 1/2 tsp of soy sauce, stirred it well, then covered the pan with the lid and cooked it on a middle heat for a few minutes, just so that the chard shrinked.

I cut salmon into pieces and added it to the pan. See how the chard almost disappeared? I fried and sirred it for about 5 minutes and then put in spices. I actually didn't add any salt, because the soy sauce is very salty on it's own, but you can add it if you want. You can also use fresh onion as the first step before the garlic, but I hate cutting it, so I just used a bit of onion powder.

I looove cheese and cream and I want to put them in everything! It kinda cancels out the rest of the food which is supposed to be healthy, but hey, who doesen't like to eat good? Adding cream spread cheese is optional, but it really makes richer and creamier flavour. If you don't have it in a triangles like this, you can replace it with a big tbsp of any creamcheese spread you have. If it has herbs in it, even better. Then I covered and cooked it a bit, so the cheese melted. I didn't have cooking cream so I used sour cream. It's good with both, but if you use cooking cream, then the sauce won't be so dense. You can even use both of them if you like. All you have to do next is stir really well and let it simmer on a low temperature a bit. Don't cook it for too long, otherwise sour cream will curdle.

That's it! It's really simple and anyone can do it. If you want, you can also add different vegetables, for instance, I like to add zuccini/courgette and leek if I have any.

 If you decide to make this recipe, please let me know how it turned out :)

Love, Lucija