It has been a least a year of testing and re-testing spelt sourdough breads, reading and following instructions in different bread books, I even took a friggin’ course on it and still I had yet to produce one loaf that was anything similar to my no knead bread with commercial yeast. That is until twoRead more
Down the street and around the corner is our 85 year old neighbour whose prune plum tree towers above the house and all the other fruit trees sprinkled around the backyard. Mom and I headed out in the heat of the afternoon with buckets and a box to scale the tree and pick ourselves sillyRead more
Last summer I would have never begun to attempt making this. Too daunting, too much work, too tricky. But since I started this blog in January I find myself drawn more and more to the kitchen, to get my hands in dough, to try new recipes, new techniques, new ways of being creative. It happenedRead more
It’s been just under 3 years since I arrived to stay on the Sunshine Coast, but I’ve been coming to visit my Oma and Opa since before I could walk. One of my favourite memories to this day is heading out in the summer heat to pick blackberries with my Oma. I would squeal withRead more
An ode to summer, an ode to humongous organic blueberries, an ode to a farmer named Jacob. We arrived in the heat, the kind of heat that makes everything quiet. Here was this very tall, jolly looking man ready to show us around his farm… specifically his blueberries fields. Up onto the tractor and awayRead more
When the weather heats up I feel less and less like turning the oven on and making it even warmer, but we’ve been having an awfully mild summer over here on the west coast so I flung open the doors, cranked the oven on and whipped up a batch of these way too good cookies.Read more
Muesli… the slightly lazy person’s (aka me) granola. Or so I thought. It has been quite some time since I made my ancient grains granola, but I could no longer put it off with all the summer fruits and berries ripening right now. I thought I was pretty crafty and would save myself some time by makingRead more
Summer has finally arrived here on the Sunshine Coast! I am supremely grateful for all the rain Junuary brought for my garden, veggies, and rain barrel, but am happy to be able to have all the doors open wide and feel the breeze across my arms as I type. Everything seems to be ripening earlier this year,Read more
My typical bread baking “schedule” usually looks something like a rollercoaster: bake bread, eat bread, eat bread, no more bread, buy bread, don’t like bread, bake bread again. Sometimes I just don’t feel like making bread, other times life has been way too full and I’ve been mucking around in the kitchen baking up all kindsRead more
I first tasted these cookies a couple weeks ago when my step-mom whipped them up to have while I was visiting. I was warned by my Dad and brothers that they were kinda “blah”, but one bite later and all I thought was GREAT, more for me! These cookies are definitely not sweet in theRead more
It has been a looooooooooooong time since I made scones, but my Mom’s rhubarb plant has been growing like crazy since we made rhubarb cake so I decided to help the plant lighten the load. You might be thinking rhubarb is way too tart for scones, but it actually really lightened up the rich butteriness ofRead more