on spring and recipes and this and that
it’s officially spring here
i’ve got my window open just a crack
but the way this season smells is quickly making the rounds.
there are baby buds on the trees outside,
and small white flowers springing from the dirt.
there are birds, scattered and scampering and flitting around and
singing the beautiful songs of spring.
there are flowers outside at the market now.
buckets lined together in short tight rows,
plastic pails filled with water and stems.
there are seeds for sale on the grocers’ shelves
sweet peas and petunias and all kinds of green.
it’s the season of pretty here
and that’s a brilliant thing.
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i also wanted to share
some beautiful photos of the apartment where i used to live.
it’s a a place i still occasionally work, but no longer make my home.
it was shot for covet gardens by michael graydon, a name you see around here often
and who happens to also be my partner in crime.
i’ve also been working on writing my recipes down lately,
something i’m still practicing at but am enjoying just the same.
i love this one for sakura candy corn,
and this one for custard doughnuts with rhubarb sauce in issue 21 of covet gardens.
it’ll take longer than the candy corn but it’s well worth the effort!
the doughnut dough portion of the recipe is an adapted version of this jelly doughnut recipe
AND i’ve also got some super fabulous news to share!
i’ll be announcing a new regular contributor here soon.
her posts will be based around travel, recipes and cafes,
and they’re going to be beautiful!
PLUS an HG update soon!
and more big news on the way as well.
that’s all for now, friends.
hope things are swell.
xo, n
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these notebooks and these ones too
this soap
this photo
cocoa carrot cake
my blog feed is fixed, you can follow along here
these shorts
how great do these look?! (i love the 4th photo!)
i’d really like to stay here! (via)
dip-dyed lamp shades
these glasses (via)
these look perfect
so much goodness in heidi merrick’s spring line
and this looks like it would smell nice
Whatever the “Blue Chair Jam cookbook” is….It sounds amazing!
It’s really great! I’ve yet to make anything with it but I plan to this summer for sure.
What a lovely home!
your cascading baking tins and sieves are delightful to look at. so wonderful that you make such beautiful things and michael makes such beautiful images of them.
Thanks Elisa, it’s pretty great to get to work together!
Can’t wait to meet the new contributor!
Also, Nikole, would you pretty please write a book? With all of your lovely recipes and gorgeous photographs? I would be first in line to buy it. Seriously.
Thank you so much, Rose. I’d love to write a book, just have to find the time. ;)
Wow, great news and great photos. Sounds good :)
Yes, it would be great if you wrote a book!
I love the drain-rack and the beautiful tile counters… What a lovely space
for you to work in.
You don’t blog often, but when you do it is certainly worth waiting for!
Thanks! I hope to start blogging more often again soon! ;)
is this your apartment? to bad that that you do not live here anymore. is super!
Like your site, your recipes and your photography. Love all of that!
Wellcome on my food & photography blog.
http://mjauqi.blogspot.si/
Greetings from Slovenia
Yup!
Great photos,thank you! What about the portuguese honey? :)
Thanks Benvinda! Do you mean where did I buy?
Beautiful apartment. There’s space to think. Am dying to try the cocoa carrot cake! Happy spring!
Thanks Janet! Happy spring to you!
Actually it was to ask if it was good!
Compliments from Portugal!
I bought it originally for the label ;) but I really like it!
You’ve probably heard this many, many times, but your popcorn segment on oh Joy was absolutely beautiful.
Love your work as alwaysss!
Thanks Janice!
Salut Nikole,
I found your lovely home and blog via Covet Garden and I am simply smitten!
Greetings from Paris!
Thank you!
Beautiful photos and home, love your blog!, have a lovely sunday.
Great post! Spring smells amazing :)
ok seriously! that popcorn is the best! makes me so happy looking at it! Also, I spy the thank you card I sent you??! :)
Good eye! And you have to make this popcorn, it’s so delicious! And I want to meet that little Eloise! xo
what a beautiful sight I have discovered now that I have to run out the door this morning. I cannot wait to come back and absorb more. ~ Sarah at “Thyme”
Dear Nikole,
I was so happy to see that you were featured in the fairly new German magazine “The Weekender”! So now more people in my country can see what great work you and your father do!
Best wishes,
Andrea
thanks andrea! i haven’t seen the magazine yet but i’m excited too!
Hi Nikole,
Making the custard filled doughnuts today and bought the rhubarb available at my co-op, however, the sauce is a pathetic greenish brown, not the beautiful red yours is…any hints? My only thought is the stalks available, while local and organic, were thicker, and it only took 2 to make up 1/2 lb. Do I need to look for slender, bright red stalks in future?
It still tastes amazing & no one is complaining, but I’d love to know if there’s a trick to getting it the perfect rhubarb red.
Thanks!
hi stephanie!
the rhubarb i used was grown indoors and was forced and for that reason it tends to be more pink i think. ;) i haven’t ever seen the outdoor rhubarb so pink. and i agree the taste is great with both, but i love the colour from the indoor!
oh, nikole, your old place looks so lovely and just knew it [for ages] re: partner in crime :)
Thanks for the update… the items are all amazing.
Oh my gosh your house is so beautiful, I love how open and airy and all the light colors!
http://knownitwasyou.blogspot.com
Oh, that wall tapestry and rocker are lovely! Would love to make those additions to my home.
The Big Sur room spray – oh, it will make me long for a Californian road trip, I know it. And a wonderful description of the new season, it makes me excited for changes to come.
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