This is one of my healthy breakfasts, but of course I cannot just put quark in a bowl and be finished. No, no. There must be a little experiment. The low-fat quark is good, the protein powder makes it stronger, the blueberries bring the sunshine, and the sparkling water makes it lighter, almost like the…
Ingredients Equipment Preparation Two days before cooking, cover the pork spare ribs with dry rub. Wrap the ribs tightly in cling film or place them in vacuum bags and vacuum-seal them. Put the ribs in the refrigerator for 48 hours so the rub can go into the meat. Cooking Method Heat the barbecue or smoker…
Health and lifestyle balance, this sounds first a little bit like a leaflet in the doctor’s waiting room. You sit there, you look at the paper, and it says eat salad, make steps, drink water, don’t smoke, don’t eat this, don’t eat that. And yes, okay, this is maybe right. But for me health is…
Monday morning, 8th of June, just after eight o’clock, and in the north the sky was grey. Not a little bit grey. Proper grey. The sort of grey where you think, yes, some sunshine would be nice now. The Mayor had some sunshine where he was, and he said he would put a little bit…
When I hear the word balance, I do not first see a scale or a yoga picture or somebody sitting very quiet with candles. No, no. For me, balance is much more practical. I see my kitchen. When I have had a hard working day, when the head is full and the body says, “Okay,…
Sometimes the boring things in life are not so boring when you give them a little game. The Mayor told me about this yellow car game. When you drive a long distance and you see a yellow car, you must say, “Yellow car!” Even when you are in the middle of a sentence with your…
Monday morning, the 18th of May, The Mayor called me Mr. Brand, and I said, yes, here I am. I was ready for hedgehog. In our garden, we have five hedgehogs now, and somehow they had become the important people of the house. The Mayor said they had questions for me, because hedgehogs want to…
It was Friday, not Monday, and already that made everything a little bit different. Normally when The Mayor and I meet, it is Monday morning, eight o’clock, and the week is standing there with both feet on my chest. But this time it was Friday. The sun was shining, the engine was warm, the grill…
Monday, eight o’clock in the morning, and the day was already gone. Finished. That is what I said to The Mayor when we started our weekly meeting. Monday was there, yes, but in my head it was already running away from me. The week had begun, the work was waiting, the normal things were standing…
I remember that morning quite well, sitting there and talking with The Mayor. He had this question in his head—how to make work more fun—and I could already feel where this was going. I told him straight away, “Sometimes difficult… better we leave that topic.” We both laughed. But in general, yes… in general, it…
