Rice porridge is a very traditional Scandinavian food. It is also incredibly versatile.  It is traditionally served as the last course of the Christmas meal. When I was in elementary school in Finland the school cook would make rice porrid… Read full post »

    Growing up a foreigner in America is an indescribable thing. It has a way of steeping your perspective in comparisons and what ifs. You learn to be at first, overly defensive of the culture you came from, then you reject it to embrace American culture, then you go back again,… Read full post »

When I was growing up in Finland, me and my older sister, Julia, would visit our grandmother the next town over. Our mom would drop us off at the train station and our grandma would pick us up at her end.

Visits to grandma's were especially fun when it… Read full post »

April in Georgia is a funny thing. It typically brings the last frosts, the first scorchers, and piles of pollen. If you've never been to the south it might be hard for you to appreciate just how muggy and humid it is. The air is so thick it weighs heavy… Read full post »

Homemade rye bread is one of the main reasons I took an interest in baking. This staple of the Finnish diet is as coveted by Finnish immigrants as sunlight and American clothing are by the Finns still in Finland. It's essentially impossible to find rye bread in the States that… Read full post »

I like to find different ways to utilize left overs. Eating the same thing for several days can be unappetizing and since it's just me and my boyfriend we always have leftovers.

 I made a soup two days ago (which my post was about two days ago) that we had a good… Read full post »

My boyfriend Derek and I have been living together for about three months, officially that is. Before that we were bunked up in my bedroom at the apartment I was sharing with two girls for three months. So we went from sharing the two hundred square feet of my bedroom and… Read full post »

Soup is a wonderful comfort food. I am a big fan of finding new recipes to try but something about my mom's potato soup just makes me feel good. It's easy to make and is ready in just about half an hour. What I really like about this soup is… Read full post »

Baking bread is as challenging as it is rewarding. My first two batches were unleavened hard little pieces of chewy dough that would have left bruises if I'd thrown them at a person instead of into the trash can. They were entirely inedible and disappointing. When I finally made a… Read full post »

Carrot cake. The heavy weight of the spice cakes. Sweet, yet with a slightly naughthy side. My favorite cake.

My relationship with carrot cake has been a somewhat turbulent one. It all began with my older sister. As a little girl I idolized my older sister. Her favorite color… Read full post »

Try them with butter, or with cheese, or better yet with butter and cheese. Grits, they're mmmm good. Some people like them with bits of bacon, some people even like them plain. I like my grits with butter, a slice of cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's as delicious… Read full post »

I love food. I only partly mean that in the compulsive eating my feelings kind of way. Inside me there is a greedy chubby kid that for some reason I picture as similar to Dudley from the Harry Potter books. Due to growing up as a part of the generation of… Read full post »