Hasta luego amor de mi vida 🤍 see you soon!

Yesterday August 2, at 10:30am my best friend and love of my life crossed the rainbow.

We have been together since 2008, when by chance, my 8 year old cousin wanted to breed a shnauzer. The thing is that this puppy, which I wanted to be a beagle, would stay with me after a month, because she didn't live in Lima.

At the vet's office they took the last 2 mini shnauzers out of a basket waiting for an owner. When they put the two puppies on the floor, the little Scotty (no name at that time) came running to me, and at that moment we decided that this would be the "chosen one", fortunately his little brother found his family at the same time because a woman who was there saw him and fell in love.

When we took Scotty to my house, nobody liked him, because he was a black hairball.

That's how when I was 19 years old he formally came into my life, from that moment on... we didn't separate, I would say that we have lived many stages together, from studying at the university, the dawns, the loves (Scotty sorry for having given you so many imposter parents that didn't work), the disappointments, specializations, the small career changes, the master's degree. Scotty literally is just another graduate, but unfortunately he could no longer come with me to fulfill my dream of studying abroad, because of his age, this was impossible.

I could expand infinitely on all that we lived together, and the pure love that it means and will always mean to me. I have never felt that someone loved me the way he showed me, his look, his love, his patience, his kisses, and I feel that a part of me is incomplete, but I also know that he will always be guiding my steps and taking care of me, for me he is my angel, and we will meet when it is my turn to leave, so this is just a see you soon, I love you with all my soul my baby.

Night life !

The other day I was asking my boyfriend if there were any special places here in Montreal, like bars or discos, where they play rock music, because in Lima I used to go to the "Noche de Barranco" from time to time to dance with friends and listen to indie or rock music.

And since we both like that kind of music, it would be great to spend a Saturday night in a place like that, but he told me that the ones here are really crappy...

I guess I have to wait....for a next visit to Lima!

#montreal #mtl #lima #rock

Dua Lipa in Montreal !

 And I think is gonna be a long long time...!

Last Saturday morning I was scrolling through my IG account when suddenly an ad popped up reminding me that Diosa Lipa was coming on Monday to Montreal to give a concert.

I was hesitating whether to go or not, since she will also be performing next Sunday in Osheaga, anyway, the thing is that I was just waking up, with one eye half closed, so my hand just went straight to pay for the ticket...and just like that, on Monday I was already at the concert at the Centre Bell!

I wasn't very close to the stage, because there were only a few spaces left, but I can say that there wasn't a moment when I didn't sing, jump or dance to her songs.

She is a very good singer and dancer, I definitely recommend not to miss a Dua concert!

#DuaLipa #concert #montreal #Dua #song #music

Oatmeal cookies

 

These oatmeal cookies are the best and easy to prepare!

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Servings: 24 cookies

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F

Ingredients:

Dry ingredients

- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

- 1 teaspoon baking soda

- 1 teaspoon cinnamon

- 1 teaspoon sea salt

- Pinch of nutmeg

Wet ingredients

- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature

- 1 cup brown sugar

- 1/2 cup granulated sugar

- 1 large egg

- 1 large egg yolk

- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

- 3 cups of oats

- Flaked sea salt for sprinkling on cookies

Instructions:

Dry ingredients

In a bowl whisk together the dry ingredients and set aside.

Wet ingredients

In the bowl of a stand mixer add the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar (white sugar), beat it until creamy for 2 minutes, then add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract and beat until combined smooth.

With the mixer off add the mixed dry ingredients and combine in a low level, finally stir in the oats.

Baking:

Use a line large baking sheet with parchment paper, scoop the cookie dough into round balls, it is 2 tablespoon per ball, and bake it for 12 minutes.

Remove the cookies from the oven and sprinkle the cookies with flaked sea salt, let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes.

Enjoy :)

Lemon Blueberry Cake

 

I'm happy to share with you this delicious cake, I usually prepared them as a gift because you can make a lovely presentation with the blueberries and the frosting on top!

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cook time: 35 minutes

Serving: 12 cake slices

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F

Ingredients:

Cake:

Dry ingredients

- 2 cups all purpose flour

- 3 teaspoons baking powder

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

Wet ingredients

- 1 cup granulated sugar

- zest of 1 large lemon 

- 2 large eggs room temperature

- 3/4 cup canola oil

- 1 cup plain greek yogurt

- 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice

- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

- 1 1/4 cups blueberries

Frosting:

- 1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar

- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter melted

- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

- Blueberries for decoration on top of the cake

Instructions:

Dry ingredients

In a bowl sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.

Wet ingredients

In other bowl combine the sugar and lemon zest rubbing both together with your fingers until fragrant, add the eggs, oil, yogurt, lemon juice and vanilla extract. Stir until well combined.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and whisk until the batter is smooth, then gently fold in the blueberries, that are previously covered with flour so that they do not remain at the bottom of the cake.

Poor the batter into a prepared round cake pan. (The cake pan should be covered with butter or nonstick cooking spray, at the botton of the pan you can put a parchment paper sheet so that the cake does not stick to it).

Baking 

Bake for 35-50 minutes, it depends on your oven, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. After this remove the cake and let it cool for 20 minutes, then run a butter knife around the edges to release the cake from the pan and remove the parchment paper sheet too, let it cool completely.

Decoration with frosting:

For the lemon frosting, in a bowl put all the ingredients and whisk until smooth.

When the cake is cool pour the frosting onto the center of the cake with a spatula and garnish with blueberries.

Enjoy :)

Giveaway for summer in Montreal!

 

Dear friends I'm making this giveaway for 2 people, the one who leaves more comments in this post can be the winner of this adorable dinner for 2.

The place is Garde Manger Restaurant which is located in the Old Port Montreal.

Don't miss this good opportunity!

About the restaurant:

Is a beautiful restaurant with view to the river, they offer mainly seafood and good wine, is the perfect place to share a romantic dinner with your lover or bestie.

https://www.gardemanger.ca/

#city #quebec #montreal #giveaway #dinner #summer

July 3rd, 2022

March 30,2022

Sometimes is sunny, sometimes is gray

March 25,2022 Les Grands Feux Loto-Québec

March 15, 2022

The son of my bf, meet Kylo ☺️

Skilled Chocolate Chip Cookie

March 16,2022

Everytime I go out just to walk around the Old Port, I find something new 🇨🇦

March 17,2022

Things that you can find just around the corner in Montréal 🤍

March 18,2022

After 6 months living in Montreal I finally received the visit of some members of my family ☺️, they came from New York City driving in just 5 hours. 

Here my aunt Mónica and Andrei my cousin 🤍

March 19,2022

One month ago I was checking on Kijiji to buy a used bicycle, suddenly two nice friends gave me theirs, now I have 2 🚲, how lucky I can be 😜. 

When I was living in Lima, I used to do 42 km every Sunday, now I just do 24 km. from Plateau to Longueil ☹️, how lazy I've become. 

LIMA

Lima was founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535 on the Catholic holiday of Epiphany, when the Three Kings visited the baby Jesus, and was therefore known as Ciudad de los Reyes or City of the Kings. Close to the coast and more accessible to Spain than the Inca capital of Cuzco, which was high in the mountains at 11,200 feet, Lima became the capital of viceregal Peru. The city suffered devastating earthquakes in 1687 and 1746, both of which destroyed much of the city. During the independence period, Lima remained staunchly Royalist, being among the last cities to turn to the Republican cause.

Lima, city, capital of Peru. It is the country’s commercial and industrial centre. Central Lima is located at an elevation of 512 feet (156 metres) on the south bank of the Rímac River, about 8 miles (13 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean port of Callao, and has an area of 27 square miles (70 square km). Its name is a corruption of the Quechua name Rímac, meaning “Talker.” 

The city forms a modern oasis, surrounded by the Peruvian coastal desert a short distance west of the Andes.

 

MONTRÉAL

 

Montreal, city, Quebec province, southeastern Canada. Montreal is the second most-populous city in Canada and the principal metropolis of the province of Quebec. The city of Montreal occupies about three-fourths of Montreal Island (Île de Montréal), the largest of the 234 islands of the Hochelaga.

VENICE

Venice, Italian Venezia, city, major seaport, and capital of both the provincia (province) of Venezia and the regione (region) of Veneto, northern Italy. An island city, it was once the centre of a maritime republic. It was the greatest seaport in late medieval Europe and the continent’s commercial and cultural link to Asia. Venice is unique environmentally, architecturally, and historically, and in its days as a republic the city was styled la serenissima (“the most serene” or “sublime”). It remains a major Italian port in the northern Adriatic Sea and is one of the world’s oldest tourist and cultural centres.

 

ROME

Rome, Italian Roma, historic city and capital of Roma provincia (province), of Lazio regione (region), and of the country of Italy. Rome is located in the central portion of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber River about 15 miles (24 km) inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea. Once the capital of an ancient republic and empire whose armies and polity defined the Western world in antiquity and left seemingly indelible imprints thereafter, the spiritual and physical seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and the site of major pinnacles of artistic and intellectual achievement.

 

PRAGUE

 

LISBON

Lisbon, Portuguese Lisboa, city, port, capital of Portugal, and the centre of the Lisbon metropolitan area. Located in western Portugal on the estuary of the Tagus (Tejo) River, it is the westernmost capital city in continental Europe and serves as the country’s chief port, largest city, and commercial, political, and tourist centre. The city’s name is a modification of the ancient Olisipo (Ulyssipo), and its founding has been attributed to the legacy of Ulysses (Odysseus), the hero of Homer’s Odyssey; to Elisha, purported to have been a grandson of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham; and, more credibly, to Phoenician colonists. 

 

PARIS

Paris, city and capital of France, situated in the north-central part of the country. People were living on the site of the present-day city, located along the Seine River some 233 miles (375 km) upstream from the river’s mouth on the English Channel (La Manche), by about 7600 BCE. The modern city has spread from the island (the Île de la Cité) and far beyond both banks of the Seine.

 

MADRID

Madrid, city, capital of Spain and of Madrid provincia (province). Spain’s arts and financial centre, the city proper and province form a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) in central Spain. Madrid’s status as the national capital reflects the centralizing policy of the 16th-century Spanish king Philip II and his successors. The choice of Madrid, however, was also the result of the city’s previous obscurity and neutrality: it was chosen because it lacked ties with an established nonroyal power rather than because of any strategic, geographic, or economic considerations. 

 

FLORENCE

Florence, Italian Firenze, Latin Florentia, city, capital of Firenze provincia (province) and Toscana (Tuscany) regione (region), central Italy. The city, located about 145 miles (230 km) northwest of Rome, is surrounded by gently rolling hills that are covered with villas and farms, vineyards, and orchards. Florence was founded as a Roman military colony about the 1st century BCE, and during its long history it has been a republic, a seat of the duchy of Tuscany, and a capital (1865–70) of Italy. 

 

Chocolate cookies

You are going to love this double chocolate cookies made with basic ingredients like cocoa powder and chocolate chips.

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 10 minutes

Serving: 33 cookies

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Ingredients:

Dry ingredients

- 2 1/4 cups all-purpouse flour

- 1 teaspoon baking soda

- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt

- 3/4 cup cocoa powder

Wet ingredients

- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature

- 1 cup granulated sugar

- 1 cup light brown sugar

- 2 large eggs

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Decoration

- 1 cup chocolate chips (I usually use milk chocolate chips because I love sweet things but you can put also semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips)

- 1 cup chocolate chunks

- Sea salt flakes for sprinkling on cookies at the end

Instructions:

Dry ingredients

In a bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients and set aside.

Wet ingredients

In a mixer, cream the unsalted butter with the sugars until smooth, add the eggs one by one, also the vanilla extract and mix until combined.

Gradually add the mixed dry ingredients and beat until just combined, finally stir the cups of chocolate chips and chunks and your dough is ready to bake!

Time to bake

Scoop the dough into rounded tablespoons and place them on prepared baking sheet with parchment paper.

With the oven already in 350 degrees F bake the cookies for 8 minutes and remome the sheet from the oven, you can add chocolate chunks gently into the top of the cookies for make them look better while they are still warm and put them back in the oven for 2 more minutes until they get soft in the center but set around the edges, remove them and sprinkle with flaky sea salt.

Let them sit on the baking sheet for 3 minutes, and move them to a cooling rack until they are completely cool.

You can store them in a airtight container for up to 4 days, or freeze the backed cookies or the cookie dough.

Enjoy :)!

BERLÍN

Berlin, capital and chief urban centre of Germany. The city lies at the heart of the North German Plain, athwart an east-west commercial and geographic axis that helped make it the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany. Berlin’s former glory ended in 1945, but the city survived the destruction of World War II. It was rebuilt and came to show amazing economic and cultural growth.