by Bettina | Aug 5, 2026 | Food recipes
There’s a stretch every July when my kitchen hits about thirty degrees by six in the evening and the thought of switching on the oven makes me want to lie down. For years my answer was a sad bowl of cereal or a handful of crackers, and then I’d be back in...
by Bettina | Jul 31, 2026 | Food recipes, Recipes
Every year the same thing happens to me: the easy, lazy rhythm of high summer collapses overnight into the back-to-routine scramble of late August, and my eating is the first thing to fall apart. The August I finally got ahead of it — by spending a couple of hours one...
by Bettina | Jul 27, 2026 | Food recipes, Recipes
I spent one heatwave convinced I was constantly hungry, snacking my way through the afternoons and feeling worse for it — until I realized most of those “cravings” were actually thirst. The afternoon I swapped my usual biscuits for a bowl of frozen...
by Bettina | Jul 24, 2026 | Food recipes, Recipes
There’s a particular kind of misery in standing over a hot stove when it’s still 28°C at eight in the evening, and I’ve felt it enough times to swear it off. A few summers ago I made a rule for myself: on the hottest nights, dinner happens with a...
by Bettina | Jul 18, 2026 | Food recipes, Recipes
I used to dread weekday lunches in summer. By the time noon rolled around and it was already too warm to think about cooking, I’d end up eating something beige out of the freezer or skipping lunch entirely and crashing by three. The Sunday I finally spent half...
by Bettina | Jul 12, 2026 | Food recipes
For years I genuinely believed I just “didn’t get full from salads” — I’d eat a big bowl of leaves for lunch and be rummaging through the snack drawer by 3 p.m., a little annoyed at myself. The day a nutritionist friend looked at my usual lunch...
