I am a bit of a romantic, or perhaps just nostalgic, but I love a good picnic. A tartan picnic rug, white linen napkins, old fashioned cutlery. Just add sunshine, a grassy field and some lovely food. Heaven! One of the many things I love about Luxembourg is the variety of bread and rolls you […]
Midsummer up north
20/06/2014 by 1 Comment
The midsummer celebration is an old pre-Christianity tradition in many European countries, mostly so those in the north. At some stage however Rome decided that church should be part of it, so instead of celebrating the solstice, the nature and fertility – everyone were now supposed to celebrate the birth of John the Baptist.
Yummy home-made butter!
06/05/2014 by Leave a Comment
“Be careful not to over whip the cream or you’ll end up with butter!” Ever heard that phrase? I have, and I’ve certainly told my kids enough times. Now – what if we actually do “over whip” that cream today? Let’s make delicious home made butter!
Healthy eating on a budget
22/04/2014 by Leave a Comment
Would you like to eat healthy whole food, buy only organic and not totally blow your budget? At first this might seem impossible when you check the price tags, but stay calm and keep reading – I’ll give you my personal tricks for feeding your family awesome food while keeping the cost down. Let’s start […]
Book release: New & exciting ways of baking
19/03/2014 by Leave a Comment
Passionate foodie and CLEW contributor Lisa Fuchs releases her first cookbook “Delicious grain free baking”. Read more about it and get a sneak peek at one of the fancy recipes. After about a year of intense blogging of grain free baking recipes, I realized that I kept coming back to some of my recipes. I […]
Kids in the kitchen, kids at the table
06/03/2014 by Leave a Comment
It isn’t always easy to find time and inspiration for the evening meal when both parents are working, and then you set the plate of food down in front of your children and they turn their nose up at it! Even when one parent stays at home to look after the children, and has prepared […]
Sticking to a diet
17/02/2014 by Leave a Comment
So you made it your resolution a while back that 2014 was going to be a healthy year? And how is that working for you? Restricting ourselves in any way never sounds tempting. I’ll give you a few hints though on how to be able to stick to it. When we first started our journey […]
Breakfast special
31/01/2014 by Leave a Comment
First post of 2014, so I’ll start at the beginning. Breakfast! For a CLEW team breakfast, I took along fig bircher muesli, which is easily and – more importantly – quickly thrown together the night before, ready to be spooned into bowls the next morning. It was a big hit! I found that a raspberry […]
Shopping healthy
10/01/2014 by 2 Comments
The new year has started and I bet most of you have one new year’s resolution in common. You want to eat healthy. Right? You have probably heard of trendy diets like Atkins, LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) and Paleo (eat like a caveman). So where do you even begin? You begin when you go shopping. […]
Adopting traditions
06/01/2014 by Leave a Comment
Today, 12 days after Christmas, we celebrate Epiphany – or Three Kings Day, or the Twelfth Day – the day baby Jesus was presented to the three wise men. It is a public holiday in many countries. As expats, we have adopted the tradition of the galette des rois – King cake – a French tradition […]
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