When hearing a Finn talk about making a pitsa you might naturally assume it's the same thing as Italian pizza . Wrong. That's where...

Purés and mashes are an easy form of enjoying the new root vegetable harvest. Carrots, beets or rutabagas are just cooked soft, mashed and s...

Hello again! It's been a while since I've last cooked anything. This is a truly amazing time for that. Forests are full of berries a...

Hello! I'm leaving for a long trip tomorrow so I don't expect to be posting anything before the end of August. But don't worry, ...

Stinging nettle is often said to be the healthiest plant in Finland due to its richness in vitamins and minerals. There's for example se...

If you don't know sahti, you don't know beers. This primordial Finnish top-fermented beer is among the oldest still brewed beer type...

Fireweed is known in Finland as the vagabond's rose ( rentun ruusu ). A famous song for example tells about a boozer who crawls up fro...