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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Pumpkin and Fennel Salad

At the market last weekend, fennel bulbs and pumpkins were everywhere.  That means cold weather is upon us.  June 1st is the official start of winter in Melbourne, although the temperature is still in the pleasant range.

Pumpkins are so …

Soft Butter Spread Recipe

In my previous post on butter, Butter vs. Margarine, I wrote about why butter is a better option.  As I mentioned at the end, there is one thing about butter that isn’t so handy: it’s solid and hard to …

Butter vs. Margarine

Summer school holiday is over.  The school started on Monday and  kinder is back to full hours next week.  For me it means back to lunchboxes, school -kinder-home triangle, but also back to writing in peace and quiet .

Sandwiches …

Christmas at Sustainable Echo

It’s December the 23rd!  Where did all 22 days disappear all so suddenly?  It feels like yesterday when I filled the advent calendar for the kids and took the picture below to post on the 1st!

Nevertheless it was a …

Make Your Own Bread – Inspirational Video

Bread making is one of the simplest ways to make your life more sustainable.  It is not a coincidence that we say bread is staff of life.  Do you make your own bread?

This inspirational video was created by Make …

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