Do you know the name of this grain? Probably not enough left to make our bread! By now most people are familiar with the ancient grain spelt, especially those of you who can’t digest wheat that well. It was important to the Greeks and the Romans and they probably liked the nutty flavor of it [...]

We are still baking like crazy with our Rofco bread oven. This little box works miracles for bread. The hot stones make the bread live, open up, and rise till the roof! All the heat which is stored in the big stones is transmitted directly through the bottom of the dough turning it into bread. [...]

We waited long, but it was worth it. Finally our Rofco bread oven has arrived from Belgium. Brought by the Rofco Company owner Micha himself, it came with elaborate and enthusiastic instructions. That was last Friday. And we haven’t stopped baking since! The first two breads that came out of the Rofco were, in our [...]

I never chop with the big knifes Ed uses in the Kitchen. I find them too big and too scary to handle them with confidence. So this week I got this beautiful Japanese knife as a gift. I immediately baptised it my ‘ladies’ knife, because it fits perfectly in my little hands and I can [...]

Wii at Trifles are in the spell of the Nintendo Wii! The Wii has been launched two days ago in The Netherlands and wii got our hands on one of the few that arrived in the first batch. As you probably know the Wii has a wireless controller which can detect movement of your hand, [...]