Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
My kids' all time favourite desert in summer is ice cream. I would end up with heaps of plastic ice cream containers at the end of the season. They are reused mostly, however the thing I didn't like about buying ice cream was the ingredients list: artificial colours, flavours etc. Commercial one is full of air and that's why it's sold by volume instead by weight.
How to Make Basil Pesto Sauce
Basil pesto is a treat and the best way to enjoy basil. And I'm talking about homemade pesto sauce, not the shop bought one form the jar. The fusion of flavours in it is a marriage made in heaven.
Pet chickens: Keeping chickens in the city
Let me introduce our gorgeous city chickens: Princess, Singapore and Sunflower. Singapore is the black one, still occasionally called “he” although reliably proving the opposite every morning. Sunflower (on the left) has brown feathers, lays biggest eggs and is first in the pecking order – meaning she is the boss! Princess is our daughter’s darling, brown too, but laced with more white feathers than Singapore. How it all started? For quite a while, our kids were asking if they could have a pet, as most kids do. We’ve tried to settle for a fish, but “we can’t play with a fish!” was ...
Sustainable Living
Sustainable Living Festival, Melbourne 2013
Hello everyone, After a long break from blog writing and work, what better way to...
Have a Happy and Sustainable Easter
Easter is tomorrow morning and the eggs are just about finished. Traditionally,...
Earth Hour 2012
Earth Hour is this Saturday! Held each year at 8:30pm on the last Saturday in March,...
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Eco Kids
Homemade Natural Pink Food Colour
By now it is very well known that artificial food colourings are linked to kids...
Homemade Natural Glue
During their childhood, kids use a large amount of glue. Most of them are chemical...
Eco-Fun for Kids: Grow Your Veggies and Eat it Too!
Engaging kids in the organic gardening from an early age has many benefits: it...
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Food & Drink
Soft Gingerbread Cookies Recipe
It’s one week till Christmas and I have just started to bake cookies. Mostly to give away as presents. Our family is in Europe and the US so it’s only four of us to cook and bake for at Christmas. For us I usually make summer pudding. This year I made soft gingerbread cookies as edible ornaments and we’ve put some on the Christmas... [Read more of this review]
Easy Homemade Applesauce Recipe
The other day I spotted a jar of applesauce on the shop shelf. I can’t remember ever buying one, as it is so easy to make homemade applesauce. The first time I ate applesauce was in Germany (Apfelmus) where it’s traditionally served with roast pork or potato pancakes. Applesauce is basically cooked and pureed apple. It can be eaten warm... [Read more of this review]
Homemade Natural Pink Food Colour
By now it is very well known that artificial food colourings are linked to kids behaviour problems. So why not give our kids the best start in life and avoid artificial additives as much as possible. It’s not only food colouring bottles that we need to throw away, but also to start to look at the ingredients lists and eliminate artificial additives... [Read more of this review]
Healthy Vegetarian Salad “Sustainable Echo”
This November Sustainable Echo is turning two! To celebrate its second birthday, I decided to make a healthy vegetarian raw salad we named after our blog, instead of a birthday cake. If only our kids would trade their birthday cake for something like this . As a 2 year old baby, SustainableEcho.com is quite patient, easy to look after and doesn’t... [Read more of this review]
Semolina Soup Dumplings
It’s the middle of the winter here down-under and what better way to warm up than with a hot soup. Our all time favourite is this veggie soup with semolina dumplings. Very popular throughout Europe, semolina dumplings (Griessnockerln, Griesskloesschen, griz knedle) can be added to any clear broth soup. I’ve got this recipe while living... [Read more of this review]
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