Coffee wells & oil

Don't throw away the coffee wells after making your coffee!

Do you know coffee is a primary product? It is consumed worldwide. On the other side, it can cause pollution because of the release of the disposable cups and of coffee wells in the environment. Coffee wells thrown in the rubbish bin go to the organic waste which is taken to the city dump causing problems of pollution.

In our previous video we made compost with coffee wells (Homemade compost)

                                                         

Today, we'll help you to repair your wood furniture, only using oil & coffee wells. 

 

I was inspired by my aunty's coffee rostery (coffee factory) in Italy. It's Caffé mo.ca of Moka Express. so, we just wants to give to all the coffee lovers a way to recycle their coffee wells in a daily use.

The coffee wells darken the wood and the oil illuminate it. 

Watch our video to know how to do it. 

we hope you enjoy your furniture

Octopus Vinaigrette salad

Octopus salad is easy to make, even for children. But, if you're too young, be careful with the knife when you're cutting vegetables.

You'll need:

• cooked octopus tentacles (200 g)
• 1 lemon
• vinegar (we like red wine vinegar)
• 1/2 onion
• 2 carrots
• 1/2 paprika pepper
• 1/2 green pepper
• 1/2 yellow pepper
• 1 cucumber
• olives
• olive oil
• parsley
• black pepper
• salt

How we make it? This is our method:

• We usually buy cooked octopus tentacles so we have the just quantity and it is easier to prepare becuse it is cooked at the right point. If we buy freezed octopus we cook it (withouth defrosting before) a couple of minutes in the microwave with some water.
• Dice the octopus and all the vegetables.
• Mix them alltogether.
• Add lemon, parsley, salt, black pepper, olive oil and vinegar as you like.
• Store in the fridge until you have to serve it.

We hope you enjoy the salad and that you follow our blog and videos.

By

Sara Luisa and Marta

Hummus

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Today we're doing our second cooking session. We´ll cook hummus and it will be delicious!!! 

The word Hummus comes from the Middle Orient and it really means ... chickpea in Arabic. The recepie we are going to show in the video is typical of the Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine cuisine.

You can pick it up with pita bread or with carrots or snacks of bread as we usually do. 

The ingredients for hummus are:

• tahini
• lemon juice
• garlic
• chickpeas

We like to add some black pepper and sweet paprika.

The ingredients of tahini are:

• sesame
• liquid (water or oil)
• salt.

We usually use olive oil because it is healtier. 

The hummus should have a proper texture, neither too slack nor too stiff.

We hope that you enjoy it.

by 

Sara Luisa and Marta

Homemade Compost

Today we'll make some compost. 

Compost is good for plants. It's like food for them. It makes them grow better and healthier. Compost is the decomposition of organic waste where the vegetables and animals rests are transformed into fertilizer.

In the video we show you how to make a homemade compost bin using plastic bottles.

Compost can have different elements and each compost is different from others due to the elements that you put inside. Let's see what we can use to make it.

To make the compost we´ll need:                We can´t put:

organic rests                                                    inorgnic rests (such as plastic, metal, glass)

vegetable peels                                                bones, fish and meat

coffee wells                                                       liquids (such as milk, coffee, oil, alcohol) 

egg shells                                                          dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheese)  

prunning remains, dry leaves                       battery

WARNIGS

1. Take the leached away every day to avoid smells. You can dilute it in ten parts of water and use it to water your plants: it's rich in nutrients and microrganisms that helps your plants to grow.
2. If you cut your vegetable waste in small pieces they will degradate sooner, and remember to cover with a thin layer of soil every day to avoid smells. 
3. Keep away from adding cooked food, fish waste or meat. the decomposition can cause smells that are unpleasent in a urban environment.
4. You must steer clear of introducing infected plants in your compost, otherwise you could spread the pests into your garden.

It will take two or three months to mature and be an organic sustrate to mix with soil for your plants. 

We hope that you liked our compost bin for a city balcony.

by

Sara Luisa and Marta

Tasty Potato Salad

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Today, we will start our cooking session. 

We will make a potato salad with tuna. It's so easy that you can do it without any problems. 

I also give you a small pill of science in the kitchen. Watch the video and try too ....

Please, use the following ingredients:

• Potatoes (enough for four people)
• Canned tuna
• Salt
• Olive Oil.

This salad is easy to make and very tasty. If you like, you can add more ingredients such as olives, boiled eggs, oregano or tomate cherry.

Be careful, you can get burnt with boiling water and as a result of using too much salt you can get sick, so use the less possible. 😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾

To save water and reuse it, you can reserve the potato boiling water for watering plants when it is cold: it is rich in nutrients!

We hope that you enjoy our cooking experience and the salad.

Recycled Bottle Pots

Today is

WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL DAY

Protect the environment, REDUCE first, REUSE and at last RECYCLE!

Do you know there is lots of plastic in the ocean and  it produces pollution dangerous for marine life🐟🐳🐋?

To protect the enviroment, we recycle plastic materials!!!💗

If we want to reduce the contamination in our planet, we have to start from little things in our lives. We reuse plastic bottles to use them in our garden. But, first, we have to transform them in something more useful...

We're going to show you how to make recycled bottle pots!

Please, for this activity use the following materials:

• A plastic bottle with tap
• A corkscrew
• A saw knife
• Soil
• Plants
• Water
• Kitchen paper
• A marker (if you want to draw something nice on it)

We hope that you enjoy our video and reuse lots of plastic bottles to protect our environment.

By

Marta and Sara Luisa

Pintaderas para celebrar el Día de Canarias

Today our video is in Spanish.

Nuestro vídeo de la sessión de hoy es en español.

On the 30th of May, Canary Islands celebrate the Canary Day with typical dance, songs and activities to remember our historical roots.

El 30 de mayo, las Islas Canarias celebran el Día de Canarias con bailes típicos, canciones y actividades para recordar nuestras raíces históricas.

Today, we´re going to make pintaderas using clay like Canary aborigines did.

Hoy, vamos a hacer pintaderas como los aborígenes usando arcilla (barro en canario). 

These are our pintaderas.

Estas son las pintaderas que hemos hecho.

The following images are of original aboriginal pintaderas.

Estas imágenes son de unas pintaderas aborígenes originales. 

Fuente: El Museo Canario

Here there are more.

Aquí hay más.

 

The arqueologists think that aborigines used them to seal their family's belongings or they used them to make tattoos.

Según los arqueólogos  los aborígenes usaban las pintaderas para sellar las pertenencias de su familia o se tatuaban con ellas.

We hope that you enjoyed our video and that you can make some pintaderas to celebrate Canary Day.

Esperamos que les haya gustado nuestro vídeo y que puedan hacer algunas pintaderas para celebrar el Dia de Canarias.

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                                                                   Sara Luisa and Marta