Kale is in Season

The winter has arrived! I would actually hope it would go away for a while still, but it has its benefits - beautiful snow, good reason to cuddle inside - and tasty kale! We've been having kale a lot now after it got the frost it needed.

Cucumber Frenzy

We did have some cucumbers growing in our garden, but not enough to make conserves of them.

Mustikkakukko - Recipe and How-To

One of the tastiest, most original Finnish pastries I have ever tasted is the mustikkakukko. It is a traditional sweet pastry from Savo region in the… more

How To Make Delicious Pickled Pumpkins

Our pumpkins are now ripe, and we have quite a few! This article is about one really big one which we made into pickled pumpkin, a delicious condiment for all kinds of dishes during the winter. Check out our little video and read the article for… more

A Day at the Apple Juice Makers

This has been an extraordinarily good apple year. We have some apple trees in our garden, one of which made a huge harvest. Alone this tree grows more apples than we are both able to eat as fruit and in cakes. I like apple juice very much, but… more

Sea Buckthorn Harvest

It's now time to pick the sea buckthorns, our name-giving plants delicious and vitamin-filled berries.