Archive For The “Easter” Category
It’s snowing as I’m writing this post. The weatherforcast is promissing us the coldest Easter since 1964 – colder than Christmas! But it’s Easter and we’ll celebrate, whether it’s snowing or not. Today I’m baking the Easter lamb. Not a real lamb, but a surrogate from enriched yeast dough. I have a vintage baking form [...]
I am very fond of quinoa. This tiny grain with pretty curlicues contains about twice as much protein as other grains, an array of minerals and vitamins and is gluten-free. But the reason it should be in every busy mother’s pantry is that it cooks in record time: 10 to 15 minutes. It allows you [...]
The way Easter is traditionally celebrated in the Czech Republic frequently shocks feminists from foreign countries. This is how it goes: guys go out and cut young, soft branches from willow trees and braid them into a kind of whip, decorating the top with colorful ribbons. Then they take a basket and go around the [...]
Things are beginning to look a bit more hopeful at the allotment: the different kinds of mustard greens and radishes are growing nicely (but still just about 1 cm high), the cold frame is greening up again and just yesterday we spotted the first asparagus poking their heads from the dirt. But the first new [...]
