Away again?? Yes I know I just returned from Girona and the Costa Brava in Spain, were my husband Ludger and I launched our new travel blog www.personaltravel.biz . This new blog aims to combine travel ideas for above and below water. A way to share our travels adventures past, present and future and to suggest ways ...

The weather so often a topic this summer is finally warm creating an overabundance of ripe summer fruit. Unfortunately the prices at the market haven’t really dropped and fruit remains too expensive to make jam or simple fruit sauce with. Luckily I live near endless banks of blackberry brambles offering succulent juicy berries for the ...

Yes, I went wild!!! With the wild pollen samples I received from Global Harvest. I had never tried pollen before but it instantly became my secret weapon. I mean ingredient of course, forgive me. Having recently created the delicious Minted Smoked Trout Beet and Wild Dill Pollen Dip (see the post and recipe under the link) with the wild ...

What is it about the number three that is so fascinating that it keeps popping up? As children we were 3 siblings and we read: The 3 little pigs, The 3 bears, The 3 Billy goats gruff, we sang 3 blind mice, and later learned that there were 3 witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, we read ...