Tsulli's garden of thoughts
- English is not my first language, so my entries may contain typos.
- Trigger warning: Anxiety.
30-12-2025 | Happy New Year, everyone!
I was going to make a small post about Christmas but, simply put, I spent the day eating and helping my family. For the feast, I made a salad. I will probably repeat that dish for tomorrow. Why? Because it's FUCKING HOT in Brazil. Due to that, I normally don't want to eat 'full meals' per se. For example, my favorite dish from the things we had to eat was fish! Due to that, I will share my recipe with you:
What you will need for Tsulli's non-original-salad-that-I-got-the-recipe-somewhere:
Please keep in mind that I'm brazilian so, descriptions can be a bit off due to that.
English version:
- Cut Lettuce leaves. Like, just cut your lettuce into tiny parts according to taste.
- Chopped tomatos, my favorite.
- 1 canned corn.
- 1 canned peas.
- Chopped ham according to taste.
- Grated carrots. One is enough but you can add more.
Assemble everything into a big bowl and stir.
For dressing you will need a blender to blend:
- Around 6 tablespoons of Mayonnaise.
- 1 box/tin of Milk cream.
- Big chunks of chopped carrots.
- Salt according to taste.
- You can add spices such as paprika or pepper. This is optional.
Just put the dressing on top of the salad and stir again. I use Shoestring potatoes (Batata Palha) in the end first because I like it and second to make it more presentable.
Em português:
- Salada cortada. Delícia. Só corte, vai dar bom.
- Tomate picadinho, amo.
- 1 lata de milho.
- 1 lata de ervilhas.
- Presunto picadinho, conforme o gosto.
- Cenoura ralada. Uma é suficiente, mas você pode adicionar mais.
Mexe, mexe, e remexe em uma vasilha top.
Para o molho da salada você vai precisar de um liquidificador. Bata:
- Cerca de 6 colheres de sopa de maionese.
- 1 caixinha/lata de creme de leite.
- Cenoura cortada de qualquer modo mesmo. Uma só tá bom.
- Sal à gosto.
- Você pode páprica ou pimenta. O tompeiro que quiser extra.
And that's it! Here is a photo of how it looks:
It's a good side dish!
That's all I wanted to share for now. Tomorrow, I won't probably be able to write anything, so I wanted to say something in advance.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for reading this text and also checking up on me. Neocities is a great site and has an awesome community! I extend my big virtual hug to you!
Whether you celebrate the New Years now or later, or not celebrate at all, just know I am thankful for 2025. With their ups and downs, another year has gone by.
Here's a curse (or perhaps a blessing?): 2026 is going to be GREAT! We don't have a choice. Tcharam~
Really. Awesome things will happen. It's already happening, because you are here!
Happy Holidays, my dear friend.
16-12-2025 | Allowing imperfections.
I began this blog in the end of the year 2024.
By that time, I was very focused on layout instead of content. 2025 came by and I also found myself struggling with looks and 'what my personal site' should and shouldn't be. Due to that, I hardly ever uploaded anything that I deem trully significant.
Unconsciously, that also extended to me as a person.
A lot of things happenned and piled up, all at the same time; I lost people, things, jobs and places and it triggered my need for perfectionism.
Turns out, as expected, life won't be 100% perfect, no matter how willing we are to 'fix it'.
Lately, I'm trying to be kinder: to myself and also to my life, in general. Turns out trying to be strict doesn't cut for me. It doesn't makes things easier, as much as I would desire.
It only makes things worse.
So, I'm trying to do one thing at a time. I do know it is an overtold advice, however, it is a good one.
I'm trying to apply it by trying to 'GET OUT OF MY HEAD' and doing more. Also not think much about the 'result' of things, because I am someone prone to overthinking and overanalyzing.
Turns out, (what a surprise!), that starting something and keeping it going is the hardest part of any worthwhile endeavor.
And doing anything worthwhile is tough. I'm trying to make things clear and stress-free as possible both here in this garden and also outside, in my life.
That's it for now. Take care, everyone.