Archive for January 10th, 2008

Hot Spiced Apples

Apples are the perfect panacea, they refresh you when you are thirsty, take the edge off when you need a snack and make you feel better when you are ill. One of my favourite ways to cook and serve them stems back to my childhood when my mom would peel and slice them, and [...]

Apples & Thyme #3 - Celebrating time in the kitchen with mothers and grandmothers

 
My mother is the original Kitchen Alchemist. At least she is to me. A complete original, it is in her kitchen, where I learned to cook, that I absorbed her alchemical approach to cooking. The combination of magic and science is indivisible in her world and I never realised until I was in [...]