Any-Berry Shrub Drink Recipe From Bon Appétit.

Hi, Creative Friends,

Spring is in full bloom and if you are lucky like me, delicious spring fruits are popping up everywhere! Making something in the kitchen has never been easier with the ripe strawberries, tart rhubarb, blushing apricots, and dark red cherries that are magically appearing in our markets. Creating a sweet treat with any of these fruity gems is a great way to find joy in spring. So, let’s…

Create Joyful Treats With These 3 Lovely Recipes.

1. Peachy Keen: Any spring birthday or anyone who loves butter will adore this Brown Butter Peach Bundt Cake from Sally’s Baking Recipes. Use farm-fresh peaches and taste the sweet, tart buttery goodness that comes with each bite!

2. Berry Good Shrub: If you need a way to toast up a new grad or whip up something special for a big birthday, try this delicious “Any-Berry Shrub” drink recipe from Bon Appétit. It’s easy to whip up and a great way to create something non-alcoholic, refreshing, and new.

3. Easiest Way To Celebrate Spring: Rhubarb. It looks like red celery and when cooked tastes like heaven! Grab a big bunch at the local market and whip up this super easy Rhubarb Sauce. The recipe only takes a few ingredients. Within a few minutes, you will have the tangiest, sweet, and most joyful topping for ice cream, yogurt, or toast ever!

Drop me a message and let me know what you are working on or your favorite way to create with spring fruit!

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xoxo,

Andra

California Wildflowers Print For Sale At INPRNT

Hi, Creative Friends-

It’s officially springtime! Hopefully, vibrant flowers are blooming, the sun is glowing and birds chirping wherever you reside right now. As the season turns to spring and we welcome in the longer days, we might find we need to get outside and get creative. This week here are…

3 Creative Ideas That Will Help You Make A Happy, Beautiful Spring.

1. Take Up A New Sport:  Getting outside can make our bodies and minds thrive! Why not try out a new sport like running, paddle boarding, badminton, pickleball, surfing, or swimming? Grab some gear and get outside to feel the spring sunshine and air make us happy.

2. Garden Beautiful: Managing another thing in our lives might have us saying, “No Way!” but planning a spring garden can yield so much happiness in spring and beyond. To make planning a garden accessible, check out this “Spring Garden Planning: A Beginners Guide” on Home For The Harvest. It looks like a great way to make spring beautiful and if you need some inspiration as your garden starts to grow, purchase this California Wildflower art print from my shop on INPRNT.

3. Beets & Blackberries: Creating something delicious in the kitchen is always a fabulous way to make spring happy. Try this fresh recipe for “Beet & Blackberry Salad” From Salt Spring Kitchen. to make your body and mind feel beautiful.

   Drop me a message and let me know what you are working on and how you will make your spring creative, happy, and beautiful.

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   xoxo,

   Andra

Peachy Keen Art For Sale At Society 6

Hi, Creative Friends,

Spring is in full bloom and if you are lucky like me, delicious spring fruits are popping up everywhere! Making something in the kitchen has never been easier with the ripe strawberries, tart rhubarb, blushing apricots, and dark red cherries that are magically appearing in our markets. Whipping a sweet treat with any of these fruit gems is a great way to take a mental health break but if you need inspiration…

This week, let’s create daring treats with 3 lovely recipes…

1. Peachy Keen: Any spring birthday or anyone who loves butter will adore this Brown Butter Peach Bundt Cake from Sally’s Baking Recipes. Use farm fresh peaches and taste the sweet, tart buttery goodness that comes with each bite!

2. The Royal Punch: If you need a way to toast up a new grad or whip up something special for a big birthday, try this delicious drink Apricot Sunray Punch by The Spruce Eats. It’s easy to whip up and a great way to create something daring and new with the royal fruit of the spring, the apricot!

3. Easiest Way To Celebrate Spring: Rhubarb. It looks like red celery and when cooked tastes like heaven! Grab a big bunch at the local market and whip up this super easy Rhubarb Sauce. The recipe only takes a few ingredients and in a few minutes, you will have the tangiest, sweet and lovely topping for ice cream, yogurt, or toast ever!

Drop me a message and let me know what you are working on or your favorite way to create with a spring fruit!

Also, thanks for reading. This newsletter takes some time to pull together. Consider showing your support by forwarding it to someone who might need some inspiration or buying some of my artwork at INPRNT or Society 6.

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Keep going, creative friends!

xoxo,

Andra

The Spring Tulips (Art Print For Sale at Society6)

Hi, Creative Friends,

This week was a complicated one. There were many distractions happening in the world and seems like after a year of being locked down, the world is prepping to return to normality.

As always, re-entry is always rocky and frankly distracting.

However, did you know that distraction can actually help the mind get better at problem-solving and creative thinking?

This week, here are 3 things, and a few more, that inspire creative distracted thinking:

1. A great book and why we need to get distracted and let our minds wander. “The Net & The Butterfly: The Art & Practice Of Breakthrough Thinking” by Olivia Fox Cabane & Juda Pollack. It talks about how we need to let our creative genius wander only then will we catch that elusive idea.

2. Following Deb Perleman on Smitten Kitchen and cooking in the kitchen is always a good distraction. Feed your pandemic anxiety with something quick, sweet & delicious! Try Deb’s Salted Brown Butter Rice Treats to soothe the sweet tooth and check out her cookbook “The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook” by Deb Perelman for more ways to distract and create this weekend and beyond.

3. If sketching out feelings appeals to you, try starting a sketchbook. These “Ecoline Watercolor Markers" and the “Stillman & Birn Zeta” Hot Press (Smooth Heavy Weight Paper) sketchbook or a thinner but more economical sketchbook “Kunst & Papier” Binderboard sketchbook are great tools to start laying out the ideas. You can find great classes on how to start creating a habit of sketching on Skillshare. There is a terrific sketchbook painting class by Leah Goren “Illustration & Inspiration: Keeping a Sketchbook.” She uses gouache, which is an opaque watercolor, for her sketches but you could use any kind of watercolor, including the “Ecoline Watercolor Markers” mentioned above to start sketching away.

Drop me a message and let me know what you are working on or a distraction that inspires you.

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Keep going, creative friends!

xoxo,

Andra

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Day 27. Recipe 27.

It isn't often we fall in love hard for something. Every once in a while, however, a substance comes along that sweeps us off our feet. We find ourselves surrendering to the bliss that is brought on by this thing that suddenly gives our lives pizazz and meaning.

And it's always the simple things where we find love.

Cacio e Pepe is no exception. 

Deeply salted noodles caressed in Pecorino Romano cheese is the taste of divinity. 

My husband unknowingly requested we buy red sauce "Just in case the kids wouldn't eat the plain noodles."

Oh, how he ate his words as the entire family sat together quietly filling our bellies to the brim with Cacio e Pepe.

Everyone fell in love hard with this recipe.

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Cacio e Pepe 

(adapted from Tales Of Ambrosia)

• 1 lb Rummo Bucatini or Rummo Spaghetti dried pasta {affiliate link}

• 1/2 cup sea salt

• 2 cups of Pecorino Romano Cheese, finely grated

• Black Pepper to Taste

Step 1: Bring a tall pot of water to a boil with the sea salt. Add the pasta and cook according to the package directions.

Step 2: 3 minutes before the pasta is done, place a large microwavable serving bowl in the microwave and heat for approximately 1-2 minutes until warm. Remove from microwave and set next to the stove.

Step 3: When the pasta is done, using a ladle place 1-2 scoops of salted water from the pasta in the warmed bowl. Add half the cheese and let melt. Drain the pasta and add it to the heated bowl stirring with the salted cheese mixture. Add the remaining cheese if the pasta is too wet. Top with black pepper to taste, add any remaining cheese. Serve immediately and enjoy!

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Who thinks this is love on a fork?

Until tomorrow friends!