I LOVE cinnamon buns.. or scrolls, whatever you call them, I think they are the best for all kinds of Swedish fika (our word for a relaxed coffee and something sweet break!). But I'm not a huge fan of making dough so I used to never make them myself, saving that treat for when we [...]
If you naturally have dark hair going blond is quite a process and as my lovely hairdressers says transformation (unfortunately!) doesn't happen overnight. Here I'm sharing a bit of process of going blond- with my hair quality magically intact in the process. I should add that if you don't want to read about all my [...]
Nothing is quite as relaxing as turning on the coffee machine a Sunday morning, putting on an apron and bake a little something for breakfast. Well, that is if what you're baking is ridiculously easy and require hardly any effort at all but still comes out a real treat! My mother in law sent me [...]
I would like to start this post about our journey with infertility by saying I know how fortunate I am having a beautiful little daughter, and that I am currently pregnant with her sibling. It is not something I was sure would ever happen and I am so eternally grateful it did. This post is [...]
I love banana bread and as you can see on the photo so does Pippa! What I don't always love is the crazy amount of sugar some recipes state that you should put in it. Pip doesn't need it and I eat so much chocolate I don't feel the need to make my banana bread [...]
The countdown to Christmas is on! And my sweet tooth, which is never truly under control, is very happy about that. With Christmas comes a lot of baking and organising as well as trying to find that perfect present for our loved ones, and for us here on the farm we're smack bang in the [...]
I loved breastfeeding. It was a special time that I look back at fondly and was a little sad when it ended nine months in when Pip weaned herself of breastmilk. While I could have kept going for longer she clearly was ready and preferred a bottle. It worked well for us as Brett could [...]
While it's not quite Christmas yet we have now entered the time of the year when it's completely acceptable to start the Christmas decorations, something I see as the green light to start making Christmas candy and cakes too! And maybe because of that (I do have a very sweet tooth!) it is one of [...]
The above question is one I’ve been asked quite a lot of times over the last five years since I moved to the farm on the south west coast of Wester Australia. My reply is always the same: you fall in love. Head over heels in love with someone who happens to be a farmer [...]
These brownies are the kind of brownies that you just want to keep eating until there's not a single little crumb left but also save so you can have one every day! They are new favourites in our house and I think you might like them too. Just don't do what my husband have done [...]
I love grocery shopping. I love walking around the shop picking up random things up and day dreaming about all the delicious things that extra jar of chutney could be put in, disregarding the fact that I already had three sitting in my fridge. The problem for me has always been that if I pick [...]
Make them small and you can eat them all.. well with these little cakes you are going to want to eat them all! At least if you like chocolate (if you don't I'm not sure if I feel sorry for you or envy you!). I hope you like them as much as my husband who [...]
On one hand this is one of those cakes where you seriously consider eating the batter and skipping that whole "bake in the oven" thing. The batter is that delicious and it's a good idea to not have any little helpers around when making it, leaving you to lick the bowl yourself. On the other [...]
I have a confession to make. I am TERRIBLE at not telling my husband, or anyone in my family, what they are having for Christmas. I sometimes even offer to give it to them early because I'm exited to see if they like it. I know... so bad! But it's deeply rooted in me and [...]
It's December 2017, a few months after Pippa's birth and I've been um-ing and aa-ing wether to write her birth story or not but I decided I wanted to do it not only to share the story here but also to make sure I really remember it all. It's easy for things to become such [...]
I love cinnamon buns, or scrolls if you're English speaking but we Swedes always call them "bullar" = buns! Anyway! I love them with a passion. I think most Swedish people do, it's in our blood. No "fika" (cup of coffee and cake which can be taken any time of day) is complete without it. [...]
I could write an essay about how delicious this cake is but I won't, instead I just encourage you to make it as it's absolutely delicious! An absolute crowd pleaser that I've made for everything from dinner parties to birthdays. If you don't like mint chocolate you can make it with any other chocolate too. [...]
I'm sorry to break it to you but these vacuum cleaners aren't very good when it comes to dust. But what they lack in the tidying up department they make up for in taste! The lovely little rolls are named after what vacuum cleaners looked like in 1920’s, but according to Wikipedia they might also [...]
This is my favourite cake of all time, simple to make and utterly delicious. You can put anything you like in it, from cocoa powder to berries or citrus zest and it always comes out tasty. To me a Sockerkaka tastes like Swedish summers and happy childhood memories and it's a cake I want my future [...]
In Sweden we have a thing called "Sju sorters småkakor" or seven little cookies. They are simple cookies that we make for our version of afternoon tea, called a "fika". As much as the etiquette required you to have a lower limit of seven cookies on the cookie plate when your bridge friends came over [...]
