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A short guide to the recipes, the kitchen, and the way I cook. So you can find your way around quickly, and so we can both get back to dinner.
How to use this kitchen.
Three signature dinners below. Start with whichever sounds most like a Tuesday you'd actually cook.
See the three →One short letter every Sunday: a recipe, a tool, a seasonal idea, a note from Anna.
Join the newsletter →You don't need a long shopping list. Cardamom, good olive oil, dill, lemons, skyr or greek yogurt is most of it.
Pantry essentials →A Dutch oven, a sheet pan, an immersion blender. I'll tell you which to buy and which to skip.
See my kitchen tools →
The short version.
I'm Anna, a 26-year-old Swedish-American home cook in Minneapolis. I cook by the kitchen window, write recipes I actually want to eat, and try to keep the affiliate links honest.
If you only try three things.
One dinner, one soup, one bake. A small tour of the kitchen.
A walk through the kitchen.
Sheet-pan, one-pan, and Dutch-oven dinners that earn a weeknight.
Oats, yogurt bowls, pancakes, eggs, and slow Saturday brunch.
The bright, healthy-ish lunches I keep on rotation.
Brothy chicken and rice, white bean stew, late-summer tomato soup.
Cardamom, banana bread, oat bars, apple cake. Bakes I actually make.
Honest tool recommendations and the gear I actually reach for.
The way I cook, the way I write.
Cozy is allowed. So are potatoes.
If a recipe's here, I've cooked it more than once.
Affiliate links exist. Recommendations don't get bought.
Substitutions are welcome. Use what you have.