Blueberry Victoria Sponge Cake

I am still on a mission to convince people that eating cake for breakfast is perfectly normal. Especially in England, this is not the done thing  – not even on a birthday or another special occasion it seems. I remember being at a friend’s house for a leisurely Easter breakfast a few years ago and […]

Easter Bread “Hefezopf”

Happy Easter! I am in Berlin for the Easter weekend and will therefore only do a very short post, as I am on a mini laptop that’s not the easiest to type on… And as it’s almost Easter Sunday I have to quickly get upload this post, on time for the occasion. I wanted to […]

Peanut Butter Cookies

I am rather busy at the moment having started a new job and sorting out all sorts of things that have been put on hold while I was in Africa. I therefore didn’t have a whole long morning to have a leisurely brunch this weekend. Instead I had to have a brunch treat that I […]

Passionfruit & Coconut Mini Cakes

  I know that somewhere on this blog I said that I like to follow the seasons with my choices of food and that summery strawberries don’t work for me in winter. That is still the case but there are some exotic fruits I make an exception for, the passion fruit for example. After all, […]

Botswana’s Breakfast Porridge

Excuse the long silence but I have been away for a few weeks… I visited Botswana, in southern Africa, to volunteer at an orphan nursery and pre-school/day centre in Maun, a small town in the north of the country. I heard about this project through some Australian friends of mine who built this school and […]