Autumn has arrived!!

Hello, it has been quite a long time! I decided to start writing again, at the end of my autumn holiday, simply because my fingers and my mind were thrilling to start writing. This post will be about the new season. I usually think autumn is all about rain, rain and more boring rain (especially in the Netherlands). But in the last few weeks I have encountered some beautiful personalities autumn also holds.

Since two weeks we have a new family member: our dog Rocky. He is a labrador Retriever and he is just so sweet. During the holiday I have spent quite some time with him in the forest playing and wondering. He already feels like my best buddy! During these walks there is enough time to take a step back, enjoy the moment and wonder. Taking different routes through the forest, I have encountered many different nature views which just make my day! I don't have many pictures because "Live for the moment, not for the memories".

The autumn season also brings many new types of food. During this season, I love working with pumpkins, apples, kale, different types of lettuce, potatoes, etc. As you might have already guessed, there will be a delicious autumn recipe posted soon!

Recipe: homemade pizza

Hi there! Today I will share with you a really easy and fun recipe. Pizza is of course not known for being healthy, but making it yourself is actually healthier and a lot more fun! You can pretty much make the pizza the way you like it, with toppings of your own choice. I will share with you how I made it, but it is up to you to change it.

What you will need (1 portion):

• 2 slices of puffed pastry
• 2 slices of gammon
• 4 aspergus
• 10 black olives
• a handful of pizzacheese 
• italian species

Optionally, you can make the tomatosauce yourself, like I did, for this you will need:

• 7 small tomatoes
• a handful of rocket lettuce
• salt and pepper

Preparation:

1. For the sauce, put the tomatoes, rocket lettuce and some salt and pepper in a blender and blend until you have a sauce
2. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius
3. Place the puffed pastry next to each other and spread with the tomatosauce
4. Add the gammon, aspergus and black olives
5. Finish with a handful of pizzacheese and some italian seasoning
6. Put in the oven for about 20 minutes
7. Ready to serve!

It doesn't get any easier! What are your favourite ingredients, to put on top of your pizza? I would love to read a comment from you. Have a wonderful day -x-

Recipe: tagliatelle with pesto-salmonsauce and oventomatoes

I love how with a season dissapearing a new season comes delivering new colours, new weather and new food. I enjoy cooking with ingredients that are typical for a season because you are sure they are fresh and they just give that little extra spark to that dish. This time of the year, with its cold mornings and warm afternoons I love making pasta. The great thing about pasta is that it is such a wide range of different recipes that you can experiment with. You can make a very light pasta but also a pastabomb full of flavours.

My brother and I were home-alone yesterday and we decided to go with some easy pasta with a nice pesto-salmonsauce. Paired with this we decided to go for oventomatoes because with the right ingredients the flavours marry together really well. All really easy to prepare and absolutely wonderful for your tastebuds!

What you will need (2 portions):

• 250 grams of tagliatelle
• a cup of sour cream
• 2 tbsp of green pesto
• 5 sun-dried tomatoes
• 15 cherrytomatoes
• balsamico vinegar
• italian spices
• basil
• 100 grams of smoked salmon

Preparation:

1. Cook the tagliatelle following the instructions on the wrapper
2. Meanwhile, pre-heat the oven on 190 degrees celsius
3. Put the cherrytomatoes in a bowl and add a splash of balsamico vinegar
4. Add some italian spices and some basil to the bowl and put in the oven for 20 minutes
5. Cut the sun-dried tomatoes into small piece as well as the salmon
6. Put the sour cream, sun-dried tomatoes and pesto into a pan and stir until the flavours have all maried together
7. Optionally, add some pepper to the sauce
8. Place the salmon onto the plates and add the tagliatelle
9. Put the sauce on top of the tagliatelle and finish with some oventomatoes
10. Ready to serve!

Please leave a comment telling your opinion about this recipe. Also, what is your favourite dish, during this time of the year? Have a rocking day! -x-

What's going on?

Hello there. It has been a little while as you can guess. So what's going on? Holiday's over, which means the 'normal' life begins again. With this, I mean school, training, after-school activities, jobs, etc. So as you can probably understand, I haven't had a lot of time to do some blogging. Because that is what it is about: time. For a moment, think about something that you really want. Then, think about something that you really want to avoid. Both of these things, probably involve time. Isn't it weird how our whole world revolves around 2 things: money and time (okay and maybe also the sun). So, back to where this is all about.

This is my second week at school and we are already bombed with assignments and homework. Luckily, with some planning I can manage it all just fine. Quite some things changed this year because everyone follows different classes and all the schedules are switched around. However, I love meeting new people and following my own path.

With school starting again, my hockeyseason started again as well, and what a start! We already did three matches just to get into the rhythm again and we won all three of them :) Now, I've got training two times a week and one match in the weekends. Being so busy with school and hockey, I'm letting the running rest for a little, since I don't want any injuries. This means running while be taken down a notch.

Furthermore, I have found some great recipes that I tried or still have to try, so I will definitely be updating some of those very soon! That's it for now, I will have to continue my homework haha!

What have you been doing recently, now that holiday's over?

Have a fruitful day! -x-

A morning workout

Since my fieldhockey season only starts in the last weeks of the summer holiday, I try to stay fit via other sports. During the 3 weeks I spent in France, I went mountainbiking with my dad, did some running with my mom, practised some exercises in the pool (think about swimming laps, aquarunning, etc.), did some kayaking and went hiking for a few days. Now that I am back at home my mom and I go for a nice morning run in the forest at least 3 times a week. 

The reason I am writing about this, is because I figured I would tell you something about my motivation to start running and about my workout routine. My main motivation to do sports is because it is healthy. We all have those days where you are just not motivated to do anything, let alone getting up and start exercising. I too have those days, it is normal I guess (?). 

I have been playing hockey for quite some time now, and it is a great way to exercise and meet new people. My weekly hockey routine consists out of two trainings and one match in the weekends. Still, I chose to start running next to my weekly hockey routine. My mom started running a couple of years ago, She wanted to become strong and fit and she has really inspired me to start running. It is a lot of fun to hear about all her stories evolving around running and if you want to read for yourself, you should check out her (Dutch) blog, under the label: 'rennen'.

So, back to my motivation to start running. I really wanted my body to become stronger (which is also very handy for hockey) so I decided to join my mom in a run on a sunday morning. What suprised me very much is the freedom and energy you encounter during and after the workout. Gosh, how great it feels when you have started your day all healthy. You would think you get very tired after a morning workout, which indeed is true, but the energy you gain outweighs the tiredness. So I started joining my mom every sunday and we always picked different routes through the forest so we won't get bored. Our loyal dog always comes with us and it brings me a lot of joy to see him so happily running through the forest (after which he will lay outside in the grass for the remaining day resting). 

Now that the previous hockey season has finished, we were asked to do some intensive sporting each week. So I decided to go and do running 3 days in a week. And, if you were wondering: yes, I still face those days where I am just not motivated to do anything. However, I know now how important it is for your health and how great it feels, coming back after a refreshing morning run, ready to start the day!

Health & Joy

A new blog means a new space for ideas, theories, plans, opinions and adventures. Silspiration it shall be called. Why? It is based on the meaningful word inspiration. I love this word for its strongness and large capacity of different perspectives. First, because of the inspiration that has been sent to me. All the influences from society have always given me inspiration to try new things, to think out of the box, and to be myself. Second, the inspiration I want to send out to others. All the people that inspire me have been inspired by others. I love the idea of giving to others, what people gave to me. I changed inspiration to silspiration, because that makes it my own. Sil is my nickname and is short for Silke. So there it was: Silspiration.


Silspiration is a website full of inspiration to live a healthy and enjoyable life. Health and joy are, in my opinion, so close related that they shall be the fundament of my blog. I love cooking and eating healthy and my biggest passion is sport. I really want to inspire and teach people how fun health can be. Often, people believe eating healthy is boring and sporting is a waste of time. However, getting to know how important a healthy lifestyle is and experiencing how easy it is to keep up with your health, I can assure you that health will bring joy!

On this website you can expect pieces of writing about sport, food, cooking (so lots of recipes!). Also you will find writings about fashion, lifestyle and school.

Enjoy, take your time, and discover Silspiration!