Food
Glyphosate – How to protect yourself!
Glyphosate is a herbicide, which means it kills plants. It is a broad-spectrum, non-selective herbicide, a product that essentially kills everything. Many people know it better as the active ingredient in the widely sold product Roundup. In food production, glyphosate…
Rose shortbread
Soft, light and dreamy Rose Shortbread simply is the best of both worlds! A light shortbread that just melts in your mouth combined with vibrantly pink rose petals that give off a soft calming scent. Shortbread, a quintessentially Scottish delicacy,…
Leek and Potato soup
Leek and Potato soup – as easy as it gets! When hunger sets in and food has to be on the table quickly and taste divine, this leek and potato soup is a life saver. It is full in flavour…
Harissa and Chickpea soup
Harissa and Chickpea soup is one of the fabulous recipes that can change over the year as new vegetables get ready to harvest. Even in the winter it works really well with root vegetables such as potatoes and carrots, just…
Nettle soup
Nettles makes for some early foraging It has been a long winter and it is about time we start foraging for some of the early beauties. The nettles have come through nicely over the last couple of weeks. It is…
Cooking with Cast Iron
Sustainable cooking It has started to bother me that we do not embrace “old fashioned” cookware. We trade metal spatulas and wooden spoons for their plastic counterparts only for the latter to be wonky after just a few uses. The…
Swedish Nubbe
The Swedish medicinal tincture in disguise. The Swedish Nubbe has had a central role in most Swedish celebrations since the dawn of time, who hasn’t heard of the wild celebrations of the Vikings?! If would be easy to write off…
Lussebulle – the Swedish saffron bun
Lussebulle The Swedish Lucia saffron bun There are few things that bring out my Swedishness more than Lucia and the Swedish Lusse bulle or lussekatt (Lucia cat). This is a sweet bun flavoured with saffron, it is best served hot…
Food as medicine
Food as medicine – the reason for natural additives. I’m one of those weird people who really believe we can eat ourselves to health and that we are what we eat! Not just sometimes, but all the time. We definitely…
Sloe/ Blackthorn
Sloe / Blackthorn Prunus spinosa A deciduous shrub that can grow to be 5 meters tall (1). It has long sharp spines, that has a bad reputation for giving you blood poisoning should you get stung. The shrub is flowering…
