Recent developments cause us to want to make a statement about a situation that fills us with horror and makes us sad. Everyone has been following the news in Israel and Palestine and it will leave no one unmoved.

If you've ever travelled to East Africa, you've most probably tried mandazi (fried donuts) with bharazi often found in smaller restaurants or sold by street vendors. We loved it! Traditionally bharazi is made with pigeon peas.

UGANDA ~ Ever since we visited Uganda, we enjoy making mandazi now and then: light fluffy doughnuts. They are a great snack on their own but we love them paired with bharazi, an East African dish of pigeon peas simmered in coconut milk.

What is your favorite Dutch oven bread recipe? Would you like to share that with us? Could be a very simple bread, but maybe you have come up with a variation that you want to share with us? Maybe you added seeds, or spices?

Ukraine has always been high on our list to visit for our Bread Project Wolrdwide. Unfortunately we can't go there now and we all know why. Nevertheless, we would like to give bakers from Ukraine a place in our special photo project. Especially now!

Today I read in the newspaper that Ghada Sabatien, a widowed Palestinian mother of six in her forties, has been killed by Israeli forces. Shot because she apparently ignored soldiers’ calls and warning fire to stop approaching them and died from a torn artery and massive blood loss. No weapon was found on her body.

Rajasthani parathas (a flatbread native to the Indian subcontinent) are made with a blend of chickpea and wheat flour, and this version is spiced with curcuma, fenugreek and ajvan seeds.

On Zanzibar, an insular autonomous region of Tanzania, I met Zainabu, originally from Mozambique and now frying doughnuts in a road stall.

She fried many a day and taught me how to make them.