It’s been a weird year. I took up a new hobby (watercolour painting) in the early months of the year which seemed to overpower all other hobbies including baking and further into the spring, gardening. But even when the boil of my new hobby slowed to a low simmer I still felt completely disenchanted byRead 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
Toasted Ancient Grains 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 someRead 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
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
Sometimes you just want cake… you NEED cake. It’s not anyone’s birthday, anniversary, special day, event or even Cake Day (every November 26th if you wanted to know 😉 ) but you make cake anyways. This Vanilla and Chocolate Spelt Marble cake was that cake for me. A little vanilla, a little chocolate, dense butRead more
Seeing my friends try out my recipes and get giddy when they have success makes me wildly happy. So when one of those friends I’ve known my entire life (Hi Erica! 😀 ) asked me to create a trail mix/granola type cookie I was thrilled…. and it gets me baking something other than the “typical” recipes I usuallyRead more
Last year when the rhubarb started poking its head above the ground my Mom told me how she used to dip the end of a stalk in sugar and munch away on it like that when she was a child. Odd, I thought, but what the hey, I’ll give it a try. Uh nope. TastedRead more