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A few days ago I stumbled into a recipe on the beautiful blog of Apples under my bed. It came exactly at the right time as I was searching for some …
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Breakfast rituals. A lot has been written about it, by myself included. I have told you earlier that I have a few breakfast templates that I rotate during the week to …
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Saving tomato seeds from shop bought tomatoes is really easy. I have been doing this for the last three years pretty successfully. Every year I grow a handful of tomato …
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I’ve been cultivating our kitchen garden in France since 2013. This will be our third year. It will be the first year that it will be properly composted as I …
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I had the impression that I had written a post about planting green asparagus plants last year, when we planted our first asparagus. I tried to find it today, but …
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A few days ago the strangest thing happend. Eduard put in a request for a kasha breakfast. I never expected that to happen, as Eduard isn’t too fond of breakfasts. And …
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The word kasha /каша. I know it, but it doesn’t bring up very defined memories of a specific dish. I can only link it to texture and consistency. In my …
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Being an expat or a short-term migrant in a new country is not always easy. One of the things that I find very difficult to cope with, is not being …
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Last weekend was filled with a few of the last days this fall that felt like summer. With the thermometer showing 26 degrees in the morning and 23 …
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Appeltaart is the dutch word for ‘apple pie’. I know I’ve complained earlier about the dutch cuisine, but I have to admit that the dutch apple pie is a masterpiece …
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