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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • The first step with bread is grinding the corn. This a basic way to make it edible for the tribe. Have you ever tried to bite on a corn of wheat or rye?

    Mix it with water and cook it to make it softer, and you get a kind of porrige. Leave it warm over night, and you have a sourdough. Rekindle the fire on the next day, and you’ll have a proto bread.

    From there to the white bread made with a dozen chemical stabilizers, acid regulators and raising agents as they are sold in the supermarket is just the result of refining the process.





  • Like with any other ability, like painting or playing an instrument, learning a language is something that some people can do better than others.

    And while starting to learn a language as a baby or toddler has it’s advantages (Our kids basically grew up bilingual), I started learning English in school when I was 11, and I still managed to learn it. Yes, native speakers will still tell me that I have an accent, but I’m good enough that they cannot place it, just that it is not native. With only 2-3 weeks a year in the UK, it is probably the closest I can get. Written English is another matter, anyway. I’ve probably read way more English books than the average native speaker…






  • We have two supermarkets within five minutes walking distance, if you make it ten minutes, it’s four.

    Also within ten minutes walking distance are two middle schools, a primary school, and two kindergardens, several doctors and apothecaries, several shops, and the central bus station.

    The latter is a bit of an disappointment, as not only the bus service is low frequency, and it takes an hour+ to the city.


  • My son was rather shocked when he followed me making his favourite pasta sauce:

    • 500g large onions peeled and cut in eights,
    • 1kg carrots, peeled and cut into thumb-sized pieces,
    • 1 large celery bulb, peeled and cut in rough cubes,
    • a few spoons of salt to start the spicing process.

    Fry in a large pot with a helping of olive oil. When veg starts to brown, add

    • 1 tin (4.5kg) of chopped tomatoes,
    • 1kg of leek, halved, cleaned, and cut in thumb-sized pieces,
    • one bulb of garlic,
    • 200g of Italian herb mix.

    Let this simmer on low heat for 3-4 hours at least. Take the large blender and go through the pot. It does not have to be completely ground down, if small chunks still exist, it is fine.

    Then take

    • 3-4kg of minced beef,

    And fry it in chunks of about 300g each in a pan while stirring into crumbs. For the first one or two pans use some oil. When browned, take a ladle of the sauce and add it to the pan. Stir until both parts are well integrated, then add them back into the pot - on one side, do not yet stir them under. For later pans, take off the fat that collects on the surface to oil the pan.

    When all meat has been done like that, stir it under and let it simmer for another hour.