Little Blue and White House

Notes from a Finnish homestead

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Series, topics, tags, months — pick your entry point. It all connects eventually.

Year of Custards — One year. Every kind of custard I can think of. Possibly becoming a reference document; definitely becoming an obsession.
Six on Saturday — Weekly garden post, six items, no rules. Part of Jim’s link-up at Garden Ruminations.
In a Vase on Monday — Weekly excuse to cut things from the garden and put them in a jar. Part of Cathy’s link-up at Rambling in the Garden.
Notes to My Past Self — Short letters to earlier versions of me. Some kinder than others.
Garden Inventory — Plant-by-plant documentation of what’s actually growing here. Mostly so I stop forgetting what I planted where.
Finnish Food Cheatsheet — A growing reference of Finnish ingredients: what they are, what to substitute when you can’t find them, and why “just use buttermilk” is more complicated than it sounds.
Stealth Bread — An ongoing experiment in gradually increasing whole grain content in homemade bread without the household noticing. Currently at 30% and holding.
Jello Trilogy — Three jello desserts from my childhood, reconstructed in a Finnish kitchen. Two down, one to go.

Kitchen — Recipes, cooking experiments, the Finnish Food Cheatsheet, and the occasional bread-related disaster.
Garden — Subarctic gardening realities, the weekly link-ups, and a lot of “well, that didn’t work.”
Life in Finland — Essays on being an American in rural Finland. Holidays, observations, and the small differences that turn out to be big ones.
Home & Craft — Knitting, crochet, sewing, fixing things. The projects that aren’t food or plants.
Homesteading — The bigger self-sufficiency picture. Where garden, kitchen, and home overlap.
Foraging — Wild food, mushroom hunting, what’s edible in the Finnish forest.
Travel — For when there is travel.