It’s time to harvest the purple sprouting broccoli. I love growing this vegetable, even though it does take a long while from seed to harvest. It grows slow and seems dormant for a long time of the year, but you can grow them in pots until a spot opens up in the garden during summer and just when you feel… Read more »
It’s February and my seed list is showing me the first things that are ready to be sown. The days are finally lengthening noticeably and that’s a good thing, but for sowing you don’t need warmth, but light! Although this mildly soft winter we are having in the Netherlands probably will help to sow some things a teeny tiny bit… Read more »
January was a good reading month! Both as in quality of the books, my Goodreads challenge and the #StartOnYourShelfathon. I also finally got me a library subscription again. Yay! According to Goodreads, I need to read 1,5 book a week to get to my goal of reading 70 books this year. And as I wrote above, it was a good… Read more »
In my early teens I was an avid postcard crafter. There was a mass hype where you saved and collected all kinds of tea envelopes to use for folding techniques to make awesome postcards with. I was really really good at it and even years after the mass craze ended I still had boxes full of the collected tea envelopes… Read more »
After reading the non-USA bookbloggers blog post at the Quiet Pond I thought it would be interesting to share with you how a non-USA reader gets her books. As you can see from my TLD I am Dutch and living in the Netherlands. I read in both Dutch as English. While we have libraries in every city and every couple… Read more »
I just love my muffin tin! And because a lot of my recipes come from the oven, I tend to pour any batter available into the tin instead of the regular baking tins. Food just tastes better when the tiny muffin shapes makes you happy as you eat. For January I am baking my zucchini bread in muffin shapes. It’s… Read more »