Quantity: ~2 liter, 6-8 servings

Ingredients:

• cooking oil / butter
• 1 onion
• 2-3 cloves garlic
• 2 potatoes
• 2 carrot / 1 winter carrot
• nettle tops (top 3-4 pair of leaves)
• water
• dash of (apple) vinegar
• salt

Extra:

• 1 top of mugwort (bijvoet)
• 2 stems of fennel (venkel)
• 2 stems of lovage (lavas …

We made a shampoo bar / soap for washing our hair. We did this for the first time in 2021 and after we had used up the first batch, we made a second batch in 2022.

We took every precaution to do this safely. Please familiarize yourself with the process before …

Ina found an interesting video on YouTube a while ago that talked about turning the cherries from Cornus mas (European cornel / gele kornoeille) into something resembling olives.

We have discovered three Cornus mas in the park nearby. This year the trees had a mast year. Naturally we decided to try …

This month I made another batch of apple vinegar. I had harvested a few apples from my mother's front yard. They had fallen down and were brown and desseccated in the middle. The tree had rejected them as viable seeds because of this. The outer part was still usable to …

This month I made mustard from mustard seeds grown in the Proeftuin. The recipe follows further down the page. But first a bit of botany.

Flowers of Sinapis alba (white mustard) being worked by a bee. Lower on the stem you can see the seed pods developing. As the plant …

I use the following basic recipe for all my breads:

• 200g sourdough starter
• 700g whole meal flower
• 550g warm water
• salt to taste
• linseeds / sesame seeds / sunflower seeds to taste

On this site I have dedicated a few articles to making bread. Peruse them at your leasure:

• Lessons learned baking …