Christmas is approaching fast, we can see everywhere Christmas fair flourishing as well as Christmas lighting ceremonies. Children start working on their Christmas list (which tends to me a mile long!) and many women start their lists as well, people to send cards,...
Halloween is approaching fast and we will see children dressed up knocking at our door asking for “tricks or treats”. What candy could you hand out which are not hazardous to kids health? We wouldn’t need to ask if we were just talking about a couple...
October is the breast Cancer awareness month. We can see everywhere pink ribbons flourishing and slogans asking you to free your boobs from the torture instruments that are supposed to be those bras. Yes, some studies claim that even wearing a bra would increase your...
The gardens are blooming (if not drowning this summer), crops are growing heartily and the earth has warmed up (!). Summer is (or rather should be) in full swing. With the longer daylight hours, we can (or could) spend long sunny afternoons enjoying the outdoors and...
I have been writing this post in December 2015 after the Paris Climate Change Conference in November 2015. It was a busy time (especially as we were taking the decision for our life change and cross countries move) and I did not take the time to publish it. I have...
I am sharing here a recipe of a savoury cake (which can also be transformed into muffins of course). This is ideal for picnic or walking diner and if you do mini muffins, you can even serve it during an aperitif. I have used here a combination of tomatoes and basil...
Nowadays there are so many diseases progressing and affecting more and more people. The number of incidence of cancers is rising to never seen numbers. Age is not anymore a factor and many young are affected. Cases of neurologic diseases such as dementia, Parkinson or...
I wrote last year about Easter chocolate and the horde of sugar it brings into our home. Refine sugar is an unmissable ingredients of those treats. If I take for example one of the famous little gold bunny for 100 grams, you have 550 Calories, 33 g of fat, among which...
Advitam is an expression that slowly seems to get lost in today’s language. It is Latin and it means “to life” or “for life” if you prefer… Not so long ago, it was not uncommon to see people saving money to buy items of high quality and keeping the same item for life....
When I was still living with my parents, if I would ask my Mother if she would like any high tech cooking appliance for Mother’s day she would invariably return the question to me: would you like a cooking appliance for your Bday or your Xmas? The point she was making...
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