Look! The chilli I picked was green. We left it a week on my cake stand that sits on the kitchen island (because it’s too beautiful to hide away) and it turned RED. We had no idea that would happen so were somewhat surprised! Anyone have an explanation?
Every other Monday night I teach English at an asylum residential centre just down the street from where we live. The centre is run by an NGO within the government system and about 90 people can live there at any one time. (There’s another centre a few blocks away run by the government that apparently…
It’s been a while since I’ve baked anything more adventurous than muffins (although I did make some lovely orange chocolate muffins last weekend). I’ve been churning out the bread with the help of my lovely 10 euro bread machine but no exciting new sweet things. Our first anniversary seemed like a good occasion to try…
A while ago I mentioned my parents were starting their long-dreamed of garden re-design. Well in two months it’s come on quite a logn way and I’ve been demanding daily photos of the changes! Rasmus and I go back in two weeks time for a visit so I get to see it in person then,…
Also on my list of 26 things is the ambitious “grow something that we can eat” goal. Well, despite great efforts on my part, frequent talking to the plants to encourage them to grow and the purchase of a very cool hot pink watering can, the entire summer was a huge failure of epic proportions…