Cooking at Home. Bulgar Salad.

Welcome back at our new section "Cooking At Home With J.T." We already let you know How To Make Spring Rolls and after that heavy meal Jason decided to make something fresh and light. Today we are going to make Spring Bulgar Salad. I made a lot of photos while Jason was cooking, so it'll be very beautiful blog post with photos.

Ingredients:

1-1/4 lbs. dry bulgar wheat

1.5-2 oz. of shredded Parmesan cheese (Asagio or other hard cheeses will work too.)

1 Tablespoon Sea salt

1/4 Tablespoon Black pepper

2/3 Tablespoon dry Dill

1 Tablespoon dry Basil

1/4 bunch Cilantro

1/4 bunch Parsley

1/4 bunch flat parsley or Italian parsley

1 Lemon

3-4 Roma Tomatoes

3-4 pieces of Garlic

3 oz. chopped Almonds

1 bunch small Green onions

1/4 cup White vinegar

3 Tablespoons Olive oil

Let's start :

Use fine grater to grate lemon rind.

Then chop up the fresh herbs and put in a bowl, add in dry herbs and salt.

Squeeze in juice from lemon and add in white vinegar on top of herbs. Chop tomatoes and put them on top of the herbs.

Boil bulgar wheat until it just starts to get on the soft side of chewy. Rinse bulgar with cold water and strain several times until bulgar is cool and the water runs clear. (This gets rid of the starchy water and keeps the bulgar from being clumpy or sticky.)

Put bulgar and the ingredients from the first bowl into a large bowl, add in olive oil and stir.

Next add in almonds, lemon zest and cheese then stir thoroughly. Refrigerate at least 4 hours and you will have a delightfully light and zesty springtime salad. Makes about 10 servings, if you are lucky!

Private Sale. Handmade Jewelry

Time to tell thank you to all of my Customers who support my art in handmade jewelry.

RitaSunderland.com will be running Private Sale for those who like and support handmade. Don't miss these great sales. They will not be last long.

Do you want to see what will be in our next Private Sale ? Click to Subscribe and get first hot deals. Jewelry By RitaSunderland.

Look What I Made

In today Look What I made blog I'm happy to share what I made for Tori Spelling.

As gifted to Tori Spelling !

When good luck smiles to you, you can get awesome great opportunity! That's happen to me and other 30 artists from The Artisan Group! We were lucky to get our names chosen in a raffle for Gift basket to Tori Spelling.

The time goes fast and Everything is ready to be send to Tori and her family.

I designed that beautiful jewelry set for Tori and her two daughters. Natural gemstones with gold. Carved pink Peruvian Opal with Garnet and Quartz .

When I was creating this set I was also thinking about Mother's day gifts. I think it'll be cute if mother and daughter will have the same handmade jewelry. I hope she will like this set!

Soon it will be available for purchase at my store RitaSunderland.com

Cooking at Home. Spring Rolls

Welcome to my new series on food "Cooking At Home With J.T." . I am a lucky women, my husband has the passion for cooking and most importantly he is willing to share the whole process. He is an artist who cooks from the heart and I have never seen him reading books on how to cook. He creates his dishes by feel and every time he serves a meal we all clean our plates in a few seconds. Remember I am trying to keep up with him while he creates and none of the recipes are written down, we rarely eat the same meal twice as he is always making something new.

How to make Spring Rolls

Ingredients

4 cups of lightly cooked bisamati rice

½ head small cabbage

6 larger green onions

6 larger pieces of garlic

2 sheets of seaweed roasted

One, about 3 inch long, piece of ginger root (skin peeled)

2 medium carrots

Crab meat of your choice or budget

1 teaspoon of white pepper

3 table spoons of soy sauce

1 tablespoon of fish sauce (I used three crabs brand)

1 package of frozen spring roll dough of your choice

1 egg white whipped

I cut the cabbage thinly; then chopped the garlic and ginger, I then sliced the green onions and crushed the 2 sheets of seaweed, and I grated the carrots finely. I put it all into a large bowl and mixed it with the white pepper and the fish sauce. I put about 4 table spoons of vegetable oil in the wok on med high heat, and then I added the cooked rice and soy sauce while continually stirring. I then added the bowl of mixed ingredients once the rice became even in color. I stir fried while stirring just until the cabbage starts to become soft.

I lay each sheet of dough and add 1 heaping teaspoon of the cooled mix on to the first third of the dough. Then I fold the sides over the mix and start my roll. I finished the roll by brushing egg white on before the end to act as glue. This makes 25 to 35 egg rolls. You can freeze them just be sure to use wax paper between so they do not stick together. You can pan fry or deep fry them until deep golden brown.

These are simple fast and delicious, plus by using rice instead of the usual glass noodles the are much more filling. That is awesome when you have hungry kids.

If you family is not into seafood skip the crab and fish sauce, instead try tofu, pork or chicken. If you want less filling and more traditional egg rolls the replace rice with more cabbage or glass noodles.

Wedding Jewelry Challenge. Day 3 - 5

Welcome to my 2012 Wedding Jewelry Challenge. After too many excited news I'm trying to catch up with my planed challenge.

Today I'm going to post 3 items which I created for the wedding challenge.
They are already listed at RitaSunderland.com and waiting for the brides.

For my Day Three challenge it will be Sterling Silver Necklace. As only I found those swirl tubes I fall in love with them. They are light and very delicate. I was inspired by the sweetheart neckline wedding dresses style. Nice coin pearl pendant as a part of this necklace.

For my Day Four I went with Pink Quartz earrings. Very unusual twisted shape gemstones and sterling silver. Very cute and adorable. They can be made as a bridesmade gifts if baby pink is your wedding colors. Take a look at those cute earrings.

For my Day Five I made matching Pink quartz bracelet with sterling silver. 3 twisted stones and bright silver chain. Not to much and not to little. Just add some sparkle for the evening lights.

If you are with me during this year Wedding Jewelry Challenge you are more then welcome to join me and post your creations. Please read the rules and welcome to join me!

2012 MTV - what's next ?!

Believing in positive thinking and the law of attraction

I always knew if you doing what you want to do and not what you need to do, that you are in a harmony with yourself. You are not stressing out; you simply enjoy your life and are attracting more and more good things in your life. I know finding this is not easy during these times. So as only you will dig in and find the right road for yourself, everything will come to fruition with happy colors.

It was only one month ago I discovered information about The Artisan Group and I joined this group of artisans. My discovery was too late to participate in the gift lounge event at the 2012 Oscars. As luck would have it, the next big event is MTV movie awards. Most of the available spots were already reserved as well and only business cards spots were left.

I spent a couple of days thinking whether or not I should join this event. Life is like a game, you make rules and you spend the rest of your life modifying these rules to grow as you grow. So I said to myself: “If I sell one brand new design necklace within this week, then it will be a sign that I need to participate in the 2012 MTV event.” Well today was the day! One of my wedding necklaces sold within 10 hours being posted.

Now as fate would have it I and my business cards will be a part of the 2012 MTV Movie Award TAG team! I hope someone discovers me and my jewelry creations!