AWE = Art, Wellbeing and Edibles.
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson. . This week’s quote can be taken different ways, but it seemed good for the long nights of the solstice season. Our weather pattern has been stuck in a dreary, foggy, …
I often trot through our nearby wooded parks and recently stumbled upon this fire pit. Most of our trails were built by volunteers in the mountain biking community…can you tell? Knowing some of this crew I would guess this pit will be used well into the winter …
… Fresh tarragon with sugar was not my original idea, but reading it in a menu convinced me this was the meal I wanted to attempt to recreate for a Scandinavian dinner for my friend Dennis, the generous Dane who loves to host elaborate festivities. The Faroe Islands …
With cooking I find it easy to maneuver my way around, look at recipes to get ideas then going my own route by having a basic understanding of the ‘laws of cooking’. Baking, however, is another story entirely. I seem to have the need to relearn the …
I love this plate. Ost = cheese Kake or kaka = cake Ostkaka (or ostakaka) was the Swedish cheesecake dessert we served at my friend’s Surströmming party (sour herring). It’s another understated but surprisingly addictive Scandinavian dessert…fresh-cheese with eggs and sugar. My friend gave me this …
It’s time for a little image-tribute to the last days of summer and the radiant color of its bounty. These are two photos from my friend David Cavagnaro of Pepperfield Project. I never tire of looking at his pictures. He photographs using only natural light, …
In 2009 my friend Liz gave me the book The Artist’s Way. It was the perfect moment in my life for such an undertaking and I dove into it headfirst, letting it do its magic on me. . The Artist’s Way is a …
Every year our friend Elisabeth invites us (actually these days we just show up) to her traditional Norwegian Jul dinner on December 24th. Pork roast, boiled potatoes, cooked cabbage with caraway, meatballs, and the best part of all…the riskrem rice pudding with strawberries. She …
. I am thinking about sweet festive treats, and I’m also looking over at my massive pile of winter squash. Hmm…. . Custards are a funny thing, some diners love them and some do not. They say that people cannot change, but I say …
First, the confessions: There is cheating involved with this cake recipe…but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. The second confession is that there is a reason why this site is named “Awesome Cookery” and not “Awesome Bakery”. …