Tomorrow i finally get to blast up the highway to Santa Barbara again together with Stephanie. I love the winters in Santa Barbara. Or should i say fall? It’s november but still feels like fall. We are visiting Erin and Scott from Juice Ranch and one of the farms they use for their juicing greens. We’re gonna hang here a little. This part of Montecito is nice, between Butterfly beach and Miramar. Great place to live if you ask the Juice Ranchers.

And then we are going here for the golden glowing hour. I like it A LOT!!

Surprise! This weeks box was loaded with crispy greens, berries, farm carrots, parsley, celery root, apples, eggs and bread. I really like Hello Harvest. If you live around L.A or up in Santa Barbara you should consider ordering weekly delivery from them. Everything is sourced from local family farms, crispy and beautifully put together. It really feels handpicked just for you.

Delicious strawberries.

Celery root tips: Cut the thick “skin” off and chop it, boil it until soft, drain and throw in the blender together with a little bit of butter and water, salt and freshly ground pepper. Blend until mashed and enjoy to some grilled salmon or so. It’s really good and much more tasty than potato mash 🙂

The “pizza and music nights” are a popular thing up in Ojai. Every Sunday during the summer the surfer- and pizza guy Ben creates some delicious pizzas with ingredients picked from the organic farm nearby in the morning, and at 6pm a long line of Ojai locals are waiting to be seated. The line are usually all the way down the road and even yesterday night the line was long.  The Farmer Steven and his Cook Olivia runs this 100% organic cafe and health food store and also owns the farm. Such a great concept, If you ask me.

When we asked them to be one of our guests in the cookbook they decided to arrange an extra pizza night, just for us… since the season for those nights has ended. That was such a nice gesture and we are beyond grateful! So fun to help making some pizzas and serving them and just inhale the whole valley wibe for a little bit.

The beautiful mom to be Johanna who runs TheGoodLifer and her Marc.

I really like Ojai and the more I’m there, the more familiar faces i see and i do like the small town feel. I’m from a small town so I will probably end up in one, one day.

Ben is baking pizzas like no one else. He is sharing 2 delicious creations with us. But you have to wait until next summer/fall for it. SO GOOD!

It was packed with people and Todd Hannigan was playing all night. If you like mellow singer songwriters, he is something for you.