Engaging kids in the organic gardening from an early age has many benefits: it teaches them about nature, sustainability, environment, patience, to appreciate food, etc. When they are older, ...
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How to Roast and Eat Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin seeds are truly nature’s wonder food. They are full of vitamins and minerals including zinc, iron, magnesium, copper and potassium. Half a cup pumpkin seeds provides us with our daily ...
Healthy and easy: Berry Pudding
I'm very excited to see the first strawberry flowers in our container garden: the berry season in upon us! We will have just enough of our strawberries to taste, but usually go to the berry farms to ...
Homemade Vanilla Extract in Less Than 5 Minutes
Vanilla is my all time favourite spice! There’s something luxurious, exotic and warm in the vanilla scent. This might be why: vanilla plant belongs to the orchid family growing in tropical regions ...
Spring in Our Container Garden
The days are getting longer, the soil is warming up: SPRING has arrived (in the southern hemisphere, that is)! For now all our vegetables are growing in the container garden quite happily, as you ...
Simple gluten & dairy free orange cake
Orange cake is a special treat, especially in winter when cakes with apples and pears dominate. Many recipes involve boiling the orange for an hour or so - the length of the process always puts me ...
Keeping Pet Chickens In Your Backyard
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. ...
12 ways to use up old bread
Bread is a staple food in our home: we eat a lot of it, especially when it's freshly baked. Bread making is passion of mine. Nothing compares to the aroma of a loaf just out of the oven! But when ...
Easy vegetarian recipe: Sataraš
Sataraš (pronounced sah-tah-rush) is a quick and simple vegetarian recipe very popular in South-Eastern Europe. It is easy to make and usually prepared during the summer and early autumn days when ...
Food additives: What is your daily dose?
Born in Europe, my husband and I were brought up without the fast food chains, on homemade and often home grown food. I watched my grandma and mum cooking and that experience definitely influenced my ...