Create with your hands
Create with your hands
These rustic oats biscuits are so hearty and filling. The oats give them a natural sweetness, and the addition of a tiny bit of sugar makes them absolutely perfect. Because the biscuits are so filling, you won’t eat your entire bake in one sitting. Which is nice, if your kids also look at you with disappointment when they find out you ate all the biscuits the night before.
These sweet sesame squares are like tiny energy bars, they are very satisfying and filling. From eastern Europe all the way to parts of Asia, there are different variations on this sesame candy. They are slightly nutty and ever so sweet with that lovely honey flavour. These sesame squares are based on the Greek pasteli, they go way back in history.
Ireland is a European country, and you would expect this would be a no brainer. When I first went on holiday to Ireland, I just assumed that I could drink the tap water. And it was only after we moved here and his colleagues were complaining about the water, that I even looked into it.
Let me tell you about my day to day routine, I will cover my average weekday since weekends tend to be very chaotic. On Saturday mornings my husband and I quickly do what chores need doing and get breakfast ready, while our eldest gets herself ready and takes her sister out of her crib. My husband then gets the baby ready for the day and after breakfast we do something fun with all of us. On Sunday it goes much the same but the breakfast is then more of a brunch, it is a family tradition to have some freshly baked buns with a boiled egg for everyone.
This lovely vegetarian dish is one of my favorite childhood dishes, we almost ate it every fortnight. One of our dear friends was vegetarian and came for dinner every Monday evening. My mother, who grew up with the standard Dutch dinners of potatoes, veggies, and some meat on the side, found it challenging at times. So she tried her best to find as many vegetarian dishes as she could. Some were almost inedible, but most were just beyond tasty. And out of all those dishes, this broccoli gratin is my all-time favorite.
My cloth diapering journey started years ago with the birth of my first daughter, I never even considered disposables. My mom used cloth nappies with me and my brother, and it felt only natural that I would do the same. But it didn’t exactly go as I had planned to, it felt far too complicated and cumbersome. But now with some trial and error, I have cracked it and now my cloth nappy routine is a breeze.
You might be wondering how I came up with the name Sprouting Wheel. I tried to think of a name for my blog or business long before I ever even started to think about what exactly it is I wanted to do. Now that might be the wrong way round, but it just felt right.
Maybe one of the simplest soups, but because of its simplicity, you want to take extra care when making it. Since the main ingredient are onions and you don’t add much else in great proportions, you can’t hide behind other grand flavours. So you want to properly caramelize the onions to get that delectable balance between savoury and sweet. To add just that extra bit of oomph, I like to add some Marmite, it seems to enhance the flavour of the onions.
Where do I see myself in 10 years, that is the big question is it not. We all have some idea of what we would like to have achieved in 10 years but the truth is however long 10 years sound, it just flies by. But today I shall focus on a mixture of the realistic and idealistic future.
This complete meal is based on one of my childhood favourites, well actually, the only difference is the meat. My mom used to serve it with a meatball for each of us. And a meatball is tasty but I didn’t have mince on hand, fortunately, I did have some nice pork chops. So, I marinated the pork chops and prepared the mash and beans. The beans we traditionally always cut as diagonal thin slivers, it’s a pain to do it by hand. And if I were to eat them on a more regular basis, I would definitely invest in one of my dad’s bean cutter things.