Sweetberry Honeysuckle or Blue-berry Honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea)

Do you recognise those oblong blueberry lookalikes? These are the ripe berries of Lonicera caerula or sweet honeysuckle aka blue-berry hone...

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Baking with whole-grain flours: Chocolate Chip Cookies

One of my recent cookbook acquisitions is Kim Boyce's Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Wheat Flours . Kim Boyce is a former pastry c...

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It's Pimm's Time!

What's your favourite way of enjoying Pimm's? Last Thursday Estonians celebrated summer solstice - Jaanipäev - and we had 4 consecu...

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This summer's favourite fish dish - grilled salmon in balsamic marinade

This is my favourite fish dish this summer (and spring). I've made it on several occasions already and will make another one today for o...

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And so the rhubarb season ends ... with a very popular Estonian classic

Although rhubarb will thrive for another few months, my annual Spring-time romance with rhubarb is coming to an end. I've made more muff...

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Smoked Salmon Frittata

Ever since we've been keeping our own chicken that give us a regular supply of beautiful eggs, we've been eating many more omelettes...

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Six years of Nami-Nami food blog

Yep, it's exactly six years since my first post here . Back then I was a carefree PhD student living in Edinburgh, Scotland, cooking in ...

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Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread

Is there a self-respecting food blogger out there who has not yet tried Joy the Baker 's fabulous cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread ? Not ...

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Recipe request: buckwheat and beef liver

A Flickr user emailed me this morning, saying that he/she saw this picture and that he/she would love to make it. Instead of translating an...

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Watermelon lassi

Just like that, and ever so suddenly, the summer is here. We've just had almost a fortnight of very high temperatures (about 30 C/85 F) ...

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PaperChef June 2011: Rye bread toasts with chocolate, strawberries and lime

It's time for a Paper Chef , a food blogging event with pedigree (launched by Owen back in 2004, now co-hosted with Ilva and Mike . I...

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Strawberry and Almond Cake

Picture taken in July 2008 Do you use strawberries for anything else but various _cold and uncooked_ desserts and puddings?  I realised that...

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Rhubarb and rye bread soup

Couple of years ago, when I blogged about Estonian rye bread soup , the idea of a 'sweet' bread soup seemed very unusual to most of ...

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