Rezeptkarten-Ketting im Stempel-Café / Recipe Card Ketting at the Stempel-Café

Auch diesen Monat gibt es wieder ein Rezeptkarten-Ketting im Stempel-Café und dieses Mal lautete das Thema "Italien". Mein Rezept für Stephie ging gestern auf die Reise, leider wieder mal auf den letzten Drücker, was total dämlich war, denn ich wußte gleich vom ersten Tag an, welches Rezept ich ihr schicken wollte, ich hatte auch die Tilda gleich am Anfang des Monats fertig koloriert und alles lag bereit, aber dann hab ich wieder einmal alles andere vorgezogen. Und diesen Monat war das echt eine Menge, wie dem einen oder anderen vielleicht aufgefallen ist.
Aber gut, wenn die Post mir nicht wieder einen fetten Strich durch die Rechnung macht, dann ist die Karte ja heute angekommen oder kommt morgen an, das ist ja noch früh genug *lach*.
Das Rezept ist übrigens von Jamie Oliver und wirklich super lecker. Ich habe damals ausgerechnet dieses Risotto aus dem Buch ausprobiert, weil ich es absolut nicht mit Ziegenkäse habe und mutig sein wollte. War wirklich super lecker. Die Portionenangabe sollte man allerdings ernst nehmen. Ich habe damals das Rezept halbiert, denn Ralf ist ein starker Esser und auch ich esse nicht wie ein Spätzchen. Ich hatte mit Resten gerechnet, so ist das nicht, aber wir haben tatsächlich, obwohl es nichts dabei gab, jeder nicht mehr als ein Viertel der Menge geschafft, also tatsächlich das, was pro Person als Portion angedacht war.
Schmeckt aber auch am nächsten Tag noch gut. Dann ist es allerdings ein großer pappiger Klumpen, hübsch anzusehen ist es dann wahrlich nimmer XD.

Like every month we had our Recipe Card Ketting at the Stempel-Café message board in April. Our theme was "Italy" and this is my card. Sadly I am once again very, very late even though I knew from the very first day in April which recipe I wanted to use and I haven had my Tilda colored in within a couple of days and ready, but I just kept doing other things first and there have been a lot of other things this month as some of you may have noticed. My blog hasn't been this active and alive in quite some time.
If the German Postal Office is doing their job for once, my card should have arrived today or will tomorrow. It's still in time, but I really have to stop pushing the recipe cards to the verge of being too late.
This recipe is one of Jamie Oliver's and I chose it as my first to try from this particular book, because I am so not fond of goat cheese and wanted to be brave and daring. It tastes absolutely delicious though. You just have to take the portion estimation seriously. Back when I first made it, I made half of the recipe, which would have been for four persons, but I didn't think much of it, because Ralf is a very healthy eater and I am also not eating like a mouse or like a lot of women do, but this risotto killed us *lol*. We really only managed a quarter each. I expected leftovers, mind you, but not a complete meal. But it tasted great the next day as well. It's just not very pretty to look it, because a one day old risotto is one big, sticky blobb of rice *lol*.
Since my version here is in German, you can find the original recipe in this book. (Risotto with spinach and goat cheese.)

Rezept / Recipe:

Stamp: Magnolia
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky, Bamboo Leaves & Desert Sand
Cardstock: Rayher & Stampin' Up, white blank
Patterned Paper: Digital paper
Coloring: Copics
Dies & Punches: Nellie Snellen & Stampin' Up
Ribbon: 3mm Ivory satin ribbon from stash

Storage 101

Hello everyone! Like I said yesterday, I don't have anything crafted to show you today, but it's still crafty. I believe, crafters are all pretty much the same. We buy tons and tons and tons of stuff and need a lot of storage space for it or at least some clever ideas, if space is limited.

I in particular am a very glittery girl. I don't use it too much on my cards, because I know most people don't appreciate too much bling bling *LOL*, but I still have a huuuuge amount of Stickles at hand. And these little bottles are a real hassle to store intelligently, if you ask me.
You should keep them upside down to avoid air bubbles and the likes, but keeping them in baskets or boxes like I did until a few days ago is never a good idea if you have lots of them.

I wanted a new storage. One that wouldn't take up huge amounts of space on my craft table, but would allow me to see all my Stickles at one glance. And keep them upright down of course.
This is what I came up with:





The Alcohol Inks don't need to be stored in any special way, but I had some space left and wanted them out of the way, so what would have been more obvious.

So, what is this? These are acrylic T-Displays (there are L-Displays as well, but you won't be able to use both sides on those so I preferred the T-version) and I used simple self adhesive velcro dots to keep the bottles in place. The displays are A4 size.
It works and beautifully so. I have had them since Wednesday and everything stays ins place, loading up both sides isn't too heavy and they are easy to move around.
Also A4 is the perfect hight for the Expedit racks from IKEA.

What do you think?