by Bettina | Jul 7, 2026 | Food recipes
The picnic that started all of this was a disaster. I brought a heavy, mayonnaise-drenched potato salad to a family cookout on a 30°C afternoon, it sat in the sun for two hours, and by the time we ate I felt heavy and slightly worried about the mayo. I went home...
by Bettina | Jul 6, 2026 | Food recipes
Last July we had a stretch of evenings so hot that my kitchen thermometer read 31°C at 7 p.m., and the thought of switching on the oven made me want to lie down on the tile floor. For about a week I survived on cereal and toast for dinner, and by Friday I felt...
by Bettina | Jul 3, 2026 | Food recipes
For years my summer mornings followed the same sorry pattern: I’d wake up late because the early sun threw off my sleep, skip breakfast in the rush, and then find myself standing in front of the office vending machine at 11 a.m., shaky and irritable. The turning...
by Bettina | Jun 24, 2026 | Food recipes
I started making these the summer my oven basically went on strike. We’d just moved into a top-floor flat with west-facing windows, and by 4 p.m. my kitchen turned into a furnace — yet my sweet tooth didn’t get the memo. So I started keeping the freezer...
by Bettina | Jun 19, 2026 | Food recipes, Recipes
For years I treated my skin as a problem to fix from the outside — serums, masks, the whole bathroom shelf. It wasn’t until a summer when money was tight and I was eating my way through a friend’s allotment glut (tomatoes, cucumbers, more courgettes than...
by Bettina | Jun 12, 2026 | Food recipes, Recipes
Let us be honest: the last thing anyone wants to do on a sweltering summer day is turn on the oven and heat up the entire kitchen. But the craving for something sweet? That does not take a summer vacation. The good news, beautiful, is that you do not have to choose...
