Best lemonade – water kefir
Just so bubbely, perfect subtle sweetness but not at all sweet (I hate lemonades and would not like the kefir otherwise) and sooo versatile. Whatever taste you like (green tea,…
Amba (fermented mango sauce)
My favourite food from Israel. Brought there by Iraqui Jews its just the best, most flavourful sauce on this planet combining the incredible taste of fermented mangos with all sorts…
Kimchi
Never getting old. There is always a type of kimchi in my fridge - otherwise I don't feel whole. Its like an emergy food. It upgrades every salad, works very…
Watermelon skin in salt brine
One of my favourite zero waste recipes! (since I am one of the persons that could survive in summer on water melon only great little way of transforming the white…
Sea fennel in salt brine
One of the perks of living at the Atlantic, is having a sheer endless amount of sea fennel in front of the doorstep. It has the classic fennel-taste but also…
Pickled mangos
When on La Palma, I tried to ferment green mangoes in salt brine with herbs (laurel, rosmary). Their taste was far from the sweet yellow mango but very exciting and…
Co-existing with Cretean creatures on island hikes
Time for a holiday. When bad sleep and nightmares haunt, work becomes overwhelming, and productivity dwindles, it's clear signs of an empty battery. I am grateful for the opportunity to…
How diverse is the soil life across Europe?
On grasping soil biodiversity through DNA analysis or a little discourse into my PhD work (the struggle is real putting three years of research into a little blog article). The…
On soil sampling in Galicia
I work as a soil ecologist on a project aiming to assess the life in the soil around Europe (SOB4ES). In the first years, we mostly take soil samples to…
The operators of life
There is a world beyond ours A world, diverse beyond imagination A world that tidies up that recycles that nourishes A world in the dark that turns death into life…
The imperfect scientist
About my access to academia and why we need to accept that the concept of a perfect scientist is a fallacy, far from reality, creating wrong expectations. I am sharing…
On goats munching on Argan trees when in Marocco
Last autumn, at the end of my PhD, I made use of the freedom that brought the time just before my defense. I was able to finish last needed tasks…
The Galician queen sows on 2m of food residues
Closing the loop: Animal and vegetable farming can still be combined - a Galician lighthouse farm Somewhere between A Coruña and Santiago, in the deep green heart of Galicia, there…
Black Forest’s fascinating fungi and the buscavida berry
The ultimate buscavida berry (bon vivant, in German "Lebenskünstler") You belong to no one; you grow where you please. Your determination to thrive anywhere is unstoppable; you are nearly impossible…
Adventures around the agaves on Gran Canaria
After spending a month on La Palma, it was time for me to move on. The viewpoints there seemed a bit limited; I'm not sure if there's a correlation with…