Taikinapoika is my food blog. I started it in December 2005, and the first post was a Thai sweet potato soup. For most of its life the blog was called Doughboy. Taikinapoika is the same word in Finnish, and it is what I called myself here from the first weeks on.
My sister Anna joined ten days later. I was about to leave for three weeks in New Zealand and Australia, and she agreed to stand in for me. She went on writing after I came back. Anna wrote from New York and I wrote from Finland, so we had the Atlantic between us, but the two of us have been cooking together since we were small.
There are 106 posts, and 37 of them are Anna's, under her own name. Most of the posts are recipes, for home cooking and for baking. The rest are mainly travel and restaurant visits, Anna's mostly in New York. Most were written in 2005 and 2006, and the newest is from 2020. We began in Finnish and from February 2006 wrote mostly in English.
In 2026 the site was rebuilt from scratch, and every post can now be read in both Finnish and English. The recipes have their own place in the menu, and All recipes and stories lists everything.