Hammiehoeve – a local egg producer and so much more!
Food Heroes of Enschede #1 This Food Heroes series is looking to highlight all those food producers who have worked tirelessly (and are still working today!) through Covid-19 to produce…
My Love Affair with the Egg: How food writers and chefs have guided and inspired our cooking of this humble ingredient
The Egg I can trace my love affair with the humble egg back to childhood memories of my father bringing home a tray of eggs (36 in total) bought from…
Christmas cake: Why we eat it and when to bake it!
Childhood memories are often the most vivid and evoke emotions which otherwise lay dormant. It is in this context that I start my discussion on Christmas cake, a cake most…
Sofia Vasheruk plays Beethoven
The Oost-Nederlands Symfonieorkest offered an enticing programme featuring the Russian-born pianist, Sofia Vasheruk playing Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto, the Emperor in the Ontmoetingkerk, Enschede on Saturday night. In a program originally…
Something Better Change
Could Cycling be the Answer? Now, without sounding too much like the Stranglers and their 1977 hit Something Better Change, after moving to the Netherlands, some things have had to change.…
The Power of Music to Move the Soul
As I stand here in my Dutch kitchen in the sky, I have been reduced to tears, and not for the first time. In my vain attempt to stay in…
The Joy of Starting Anew: My New Life in Enschede
It is now over a year since my family and I moved to Enschede in East Netherlands and started our new life in the Dutch kitchen in the sky, and…
Sofia Vasheruk Delights Enschede!
Returning from performing in Venice earlier in the week, there was an audible gasp as Sofia Vasheruk (looking radiant in pink) and her husband, Andrey Nesterenko took to the stage…