I’m in the shower and I’m thinking of going into the city with my family for hot chocolate when I notice how the sunshine hits my wedding ring, loose on my finger.

If anyone else is suffering from holiday stress, try looking at this photograph for a while. It’s taken by molly w. and is from this habit post, but needs to be viewed in that larger size.
Now I’m going to step away from the computer and go clean the kitchen. There are two days and a [...]

Kale. Kale is quite the trendy vegetable right now, there are recipes for it everywhere on the internet – mostly because it’s hardy and extremely good for you, but also because it actually tastes very good. It doesn’t look it, for sure. It looks like curly parsley on growth hormones, and when it’s cooked it’s [...]

The last of the roses. A record-breakingly mild november let them last until December. This is Astrid Lindgren; isn’t she beautiful, even in decay?

On the same note, I love Camilla’s guest post on Lucia at Stephanie Levy’s advent calendar. There are recipes there, too, if you won’t settle for the cute illustrations (which should really be made ito a book on Lucia!). Lucia day was yesterday, and we didn’t celebrate. We cleaned a bit and had roast duck [...]

Despite the messy, un-Christmased house and the stack of student essays waiting to be marked; as I walk across the wooden floor in a pair of wooly fair isle socks my Mum’s friend knitted for me years ago when I was still a kid living at home, with a yellow cup of milky tea in [...]

A huge part of it, at least, is ris a l’amande. The recipe is as simple as they get:
rice porridge cooked the day before (so ideally, you have the hot porridge on the 23rd, little Christmas eve, and deliberately make a large amount of leftovers)
cream
almonds (I’m allergic and have this without the almonds and it’s [...]

COP15 has begun. Several days of feeling that knot in my stomach, hoping the leaders of the (Western) world have the courage and decency to do the right thing. It sadly doesn’t seem like the Danish government is doing much to get things going. I thought I might write a little bit while the summit [...]

I’m still a bit homesick. This photo (and the previous two) was taken in August when I visited the area where I grew up. I haven’t been back much. I want to go again.
When I look at the photos I took I can’t believe how saturated some of them are. The far North might not [...]