Is my home grown veggie actually healthier?

I’m in dubio about making a new vegetable garden coming spring. Last June I moved to Amsterdam where I have a wonderful garden with a little garden shed. It was a little late to plant many vegetables then, especially because the big cherry tree covers a big part of the garden in shade. I thought [...]

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Thai Cooking

After three and a half weeks of rice and noodles I’m happy to be back in my own kitchen. I discovered the Thai kitchen, sometimes even in the mornings, and I started to appreciate spicy food. In times the tears were running down my face and I felt the flames shooting through my throat but [...]

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The Pita Machine

Back from the Holy land! Even my camera made it home after spending a week in the police station in the airport of Riga. I generally lose everything that’s not attached to me, that’s why my boyfriend is in charge of the passports and flight tickets when we travel. At first I was slightly offended [...]

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Spices for a palace kitchen

There is one problem with these pictures…. they don’t bring to you the aromatic scent these spices fill the air around them with. On the same day I received the cucumber plant gift, of which I ate the first cucumber today!, a colleague brought me a beautiful gift of a selection of spices from a [...]

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A city farm

Gardening is such a joy! I might sound like a 70 year old country lady (no offense) but I can’t help but love this work. It gives me so much satisfaction when after all my hard labor work I can see everything start growing. My hands are black as coals just as the bottom of [...]

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Athens, Greece!

What a shock after those cozy islands where the pace is comfortably slow and the air smells like flowers and sea. Athens is so noisy, dirty and extremely crowded. But as in most big cities there is a lot to discover and to experience. We kept all the shopping for the last moment so when [...]

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Santorini, Greece!

Santorini, our second destination, is a different story than Naxos. Everyone knows the pictures of the sunsets and the white house’s on the edge of the cliff with the blue roofs. Well, that’s how it’s like, just like in the picture, really beautiful and luckily we did not have to share the view with to [...]

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Naxos, Greece!

If there is a heaven I hope it looks like Naxos. This is such a beautiful island with beautiful food, where herbs, figs and nuts grown next to the road; goats freely roam the hills while making music with the bells around their neck. And then there is something I can’t catch with my camera [...]

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First Barbeque of the year!!

It was great weather the week before my exams! That’s of course good and bad news. I was waiting for some spring days the entire winter so I was very happy they finally came but at the same time I was stuck to my books. I decided to make the best out of it and [...]

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Goose eggs and country life

This weekend I spent a night at a friend’s place in the country on the border of a nature area called ‘het verdronken land van saeftinghe’. It was great being out of the city for a change, have some beautiful far stretched views and a feel of the farm life that seems so far away [...]

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