Potato Salad

I made this for lunch last week and want to share this recipe. It’s a very simple vegan potato salad, I adapted my mother’s recipe to make it vegan, and it turned out great. What I like about this salad is that it’s very easy and quick to make, and everyone, vegan or omni, loves it!

Chives, parsley, fennel, tomatoes and avocados.

I usually keep it simple and use only potatoes, fennel, tomatoes and chives, but I wanted to use what I had in the fridge, so I added some parsley and avocados. I’m not a parsley fan but it worked out fine in the recipe, and the avocados were also a good addition. I think the fun thing about potato salads is that mostly anything works, so you can just be creative.

I made vegan mayo from Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray’s 30 Minute Vegan, I love that recipe! It’s our only option here in Santiago, we can’t find vegan mayo at the supermarket. I once found a soy spread that was very expensive and tasted nothing like mayo, but it’s not on the market anymore (and even if it was, I wouldn’t buy it again).

Instead of using regular salt in the mayo, I used this garlic and seaweed sea salt we bought a while back, I must buy more of that stuff, it’s delicious and gives food a mild garlicky taste without being all over the place. I must have used about two or three generous tablespoons of mayo for the salad.

Potato Salad

Potato Salad

I steamed 5 potatoes, that were already peeled and cut into medium pieces, and let them cool for about half an hour before mixing them up with the other vegetables and the mayo. Once everything was mixed together, I checked the salt and that’s all, it was ready. Isn’t this a great recipe for a picnic or potluck?

Color Scheme Suggestions Easter

I have a friend that says that she needs colors and fantasy in her life. I couldn’t agree more!

For me, color is what gets me going. I can get inspiration from an image that has a harmonic color scheme, and sometimes (not always) I find it easier to define the colors I’ll work with before finishing a sketch or project. For me, deciding the colors of a layout is not a detail, it’s part of the project itself. And a very important part, I may add.

I thought it would be interesting to have a color scheme suggestion category in this blog, to help inspire other people and also to debate on the subject.

To start, I’d like to suggest color schemes that can be used very well in Easter projects. Easter speaks to me in pastel, soft colors. The queen pastel color is probably peach. It’s earthy and invinting, and can be combined with a number of complementary colors.

Here are some color combinations you may find inspiring if you are working on an easter project:

Easter Color Schemes

Of course, you don’t have to use these color combinations only in easter.  You can apply them in any project in which you’re goal is to deliver a message of something warm, invinting, calm, pleasant and relaxed. Pastel color schemes are also very present in design for kids.

Here are some examples I find inspiring:

Laura Ashling Botannical Birds collection.

Aimée Wilder's Clouds wallpaper.

Aimée Wilder's Clouds wallpaper.

Baby quilt from Casa & Ideas.

World Matrioska textile from Macrina Busato.

I hope you found the suggestions inspiring. Colors have a strong power to communicate emotions and concepts, not only in surface design but in general, and choosing the right color scheme for your project can help you achieve your goal.

Photo references:

Laura Ashling from Print & Pattern.

Aimée Wilder from http://aimeewilder.com/.

Casa & Ideas from www.casaideas.cl.

Macrina Busato from Growing Graphics book, from Index Book.