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The Journal

Notes from the kitchen, the garden, and everywhere in between.

Things we noticed, tried, cooked, or kept coming back to. Updated most weeks, never padded to a schedule.

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The maker behind the stoneware bowls.

Ellinor's studio sits behind a greenhouse in the Cape winelands. Every bowl we carry right now came out of the same kiln, on the same afternoon, in a batch of eleven.

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Food·4 min read

What's actually in season this week.

A running list, updated most Sundays, of what's worth buying at the market right now.

A market crate of seasonal vegetables
Home·3 min read

A kitchen drawer worth keeping.

The five tools we reach for more than anything else, and why the rest can go.

A drawer of well-used wooden kitchen tools
Body·2 min read

The bar of soap we keep buying again.

Cold-pressed, unscented, wrapped in paper. Nothing else in the cupboard has lasted this long.

A bar of handmade soap on a folded linen cloth
Ideas for living·6 min read

A morning without a screen.

Ten days of leaving the phone in another room before coffee. Here's what changed and what didn't.

Coffee and a notebook on a table by a window
Food·5 min read

Five-ingredient dinners for the week ahead.

No new equipment, no long shop. Just five things, done properly, on repeat.

A simple weeknight dinner of roasted vegetables
Home·3 min read

Cedar, sage, and a slow Sunday clean.

The one hour a week that makes the rest of the house feel handled.

Cedar and sage bundled on a wooden counter