A couple of sweet treats for the start of the week!
A crazy beautiful cookbook:
You could acquire Marit Hovland’s Bakeland: Nordic Treats Inspired by Nature and actually make the recipes – I would highly encourage it! But, really, this cookbook is the most deliriously glorious eye candy you’ll have the pleasure of perusing in absolute ever, so you should spend some quality time simply ogling. A celebration of baking, organized seasonally and inspired by Scandinavian ingredients and design, Bakeland is so pretty you’ll drool. I have no decorating skills so I’m going to stick to the Spice Cake with Cinnamon Almonds. Because chocolate icing is possible for people like me.
If you want a preview of some of the book’s insanely gorgeous food photos, click here. (2018, Greystone Books, Vancouver)
Eat some berries:
If you’re cleaning out the freezer and you find a package of frozen raspberries, make this sauce. I reduced the sugar by a smidge (which is, of course, a completely technical cooking term). Then eat it out of the saucepan (ahem!) and pretend it’s summer already. Do. It.
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Flowery Prose 
i think i’d love this book
My favorite new book is an old book: a 1907 edition of Neltje Blanchan’s Nature’s Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Her perspective is remarkably modern, and her writing is delightful. The 1907 edition’s hardbound, with colored plates and black and white photos. I highly recommend it, and will be writing about it myself — some day.
Sure does look like a beauty!
I do like the idea of eating the sauce straight out of the saucepan. I also like the look of that glorious book. Yum!
Good instructions!
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