Hello, and welcome to my blog!
This blog is in the beginning stages of starting up (as of October 2011). Though it has limited material on it so far, it will eventually include information about a variety of things I do in my home with a main focus on baking, gardening and household. I am hoping to be able to contribute with some helpful hints and ways to run a household more smoothly, simplifying and sharing information I have learned over the years and wish I had known earlier.
I am always on the look-out for new recipes; not just any kind of recipe, but recipes that prove themselves to be unusually tasty. This is especially true for my dessert recipes; why eat sweets or unhealthy foods that you don’t thoroughly enjoy? I go for the best of the best; not for complicated, but certainly for that extraordinary flavor that makes people wonder “WHO made that???” I do have a few recipes that I feel fit this category, and look forward to sharing them with you.
For cooking recipes, I tend to look for ones that are quick and easy, pleasing to the palate, but also low on processed, pre-packaged foods; in other words, I’m trying to keep it as healthy as I can while accomplishing the rest at the same time. In a busy household when raising kids, I simply don’t have the time to get into the more fancy, time-consuming cooking, even if the result is great. I cook every day for my family, and I need recipes that I have time for.
My gardening posts will be all about vegetables as opposed to shrubs and flowers. This is a relatively new area for me, having gone through only two years of in-ground vegetable gardening so far. There is already a lot of information out there about vegetable gardening, so my posts will be a little bit different. In this blog I will not go through “everything you need to know”, as there are “a gazillion” pages covering that on the internet by people much more experienced than me. Instead, I will share the information I found especially useful while going through a variety of material, trying to learn what to do in my own garden. I will write about what I did, the results, what worked and what didn’t, what I decided to do differently next time, and why. Hopefully some of my experiences and failures will help others in their own gardens.
Since I grew up in Norway, it is only natural for me to include some Norwegian recipes, though most of them will be recipes I found after I moved to the U.S. I will stick to the imperial / USA measuring system in recipes. Though in order to help with any measurement confusions that may arise for people using the metric system, whether living in Norway or not, I have include some measurement tables and conversion tools in a separate page, called Metric and More. You can find it in the same bar that the About page is located in, on the Home page. I have also included other information useful to Norwegians, and will add to the list as needed.
Please feel welcome to comment on my posts! Be kind, use clean language, and no spam, please. I will read each and every one of your comments, and if you have questions I will do my best to answer them for you. I will stick to English in my posts, though if you wish to comment in Norwegian, you are of course very welcome to.
I hope you will find my blog useful and fun to read!