The Chocolates Of Life

Author: Biencutza

  • [Netherlands] Rotterdam – the city that never stops rebuilding

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    We just got back from a party/visit weekend in Rotterdam and I must admit that now I admire the Dutch even more. For their lifestyle, for their way of having everything organized, even if at first sight it all may look like a mess, for their relaxed attitude. I have been to Netherlands before, to…

  • Spinach Pie

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    Quick, healthy and easy to make recipe. Unfortunately, it was so delicious that there wasn’t any left to take a photo with the result. It was eaten in no time, so I don’t have a final version of the pie, but here are the steps to prepare it.

  • [Documentary] Land Rush – Why Poverty?

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    From time to time I feel like watching more documentary movies, than artistic ones. This time, I discovered one about Africa and the lands used for agriculture there.

  • [Film] Carnage

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    Black humor. That’s how I would describe Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage. Sometimes shocking, it actually made me laugh. It reveals the bad in us, all our self deceptions, all our prejudices, our way of patronizing others and feeling better that the rest.

  • Trout and vegetables in the oven

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    I received the best feedback so far from my boyfriend for this recipe, so it’s really worth posting it on the blog. He even said that the trout was more delicious that the one we have at a famous restaurant in Romania. For the whole evening, he kept saying that he has never eaten something…

  • [Documentary] Home

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    I’ve seen this documentary a couple of years ago while visiting some friends in Berlin and it’s hard to say exactly how it made me fill. I felt impressed by the power of the things around us, angry at the damage we have made, but also optimistic thinking that there is something that can be…

  • [Film] The Turin Horse

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    The film starts like this : ‘On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip…

  • [Books] Pismovnik – Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin

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    I received this book as a gift for my birthday from a good friend, with a taste in books I really admire.  She read a review in an urban magazine and said to her self that the subject would actually fit me just fine. So right she was as I finished reading Pismovnik, almost devouring…

  • [Books] Choke – Chuck Palahniuk

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    I haven’t read any of Chuck Palahniuk’s books before, but I saw Fight Club some years ago, and now I bought three of his books to see what’s the story with this guy. I read Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Choke. Although everybody said that Fight Club is his best book, my favorite is definitely…

  • [Film] On Golden Pond

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    New house, extra large screen TV, comfortable couch and warm blanket! All this on a cold winter Saturday evening, with nothing else to do but relax a little. And we chose ‘On Golden Pond‘ and a glass of red wine to go with it.

  • [Books] The Beautiful and Damned – Scott F. Fitzgerarld

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    I bought ‘The Beautiful and Damned‘ just because I remembered that I enjoyed somewhere in high-school ‘The great Gatsby’. The introduction said that the action happens in the same era, so I said why not. I didn’t have too many expectations from this book, I imagined I would enjoy reading it, but in the end…

  • [Film] Evil (Ondskan)

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    I saw Evil some years ago and somehow it got to my attention again a few days ago, as a friend of mine reminded me of it. I didn’t remember exactly what the story was about, so I decided to watch it again.