Carrot Cake Oatmeal (v, gf)

With Easter just around the corner, carrot cake is raking in its yearly popularity again and for good reason. After all, the combination of sweet cake with a hint of spice, nuts and savoury is just delicious! However, it is unfortunately not socially acceptable or very good for you to eat cake all day. So…

Easy German Potato Pancakes (v, gf)

The German obsession with potatoes is one of the most real stereotypes there is. Potato dumplings, Dauphinoise potatoes, boiled potatoes, potato soup, potato salad, mashed potatoes - you name it, we love it here! Especially in my family this humble vegetable is the carbohydrate of choice and it was always a great day when my…

My Zero Waste Journey II: Kitchen

Welcome to week 2 of Zero Waste March! Today I want to talk about one of my favourite parts of my flat - the low impact/zero waste kitchen. Just this week I read that marine biologists have been finding plastic fibres in even the deepest ocean trenches (Jamieson et al. 2019). How terrifying that plastic…

My Zero Waste Journey I: Bathroom

With the weather finally starting to get better and spring in the air, it's also time for spring cleaning. This is also the perfect opportunity to think about all the "dirt" humans are generally accumulating on our planet. Consumerism and industrial production are rapidly depleting our planet's resources, while 79% of all plastic ever produced…

Beetroot Soup for Valentine’s Day (v, gf)

Do you also feel like January dragged on forever? After the holiday season the snowy and cold weather seems to have slowed down time somehow. But Frebruary is here now and that means Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. While I do believe that this holiday has been commercialised to a ridiculous degree, I…