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Deviled eggs

As my sister recently observed, from an early age Dutch children are trained in raising money for charity and other kinds of projects. The school needs a new playground? The kids get family and friends to sponsor them for running rounds. They sell lottery tickets in support of the tennis club and tulip bulbs for [...]

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Petrified cheese

There are many great things about having kids. Especially in the early stages of parenthood, it  means you get to wake up/ be woken bright and early each and every day, early enough to greet the sun in summer or take a pre-dawn walk in winter (yeah, we really did that – out of compassion [...]

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Egg salad with curry and Dijon mustard

The purpose of permaculture design is to create as many beneficial relationships between the elements as possible. One well known example is the chicken tractor: you make a bottomless pen for your chickens and move it around your property. Wherever you put it, the chickens will weed, till and manure the soil – and give [...]

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Open face sandwiches with home made potato salad

So, we made the potato salad to eat on Christmas Eve and then we made another batch to make open face sandwiches for New Year’s Eve. As we do every year. And the sandwiches that are not eaten on New Year’s Eve, we pack in a box and take on our traditional family walk on [...]

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