african vanielje on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: Fruit, breakfast, preserves, seasonal cooking
Now that I am actively trying to eat breakfast in the morning I am forcibly reminded that January and February is Seville Orange Season. It may be an English thing, but no marmalade is quite the same as that lovingly made from these delicious Spanish Oranges. They have just the right level [...]
african vanielje on Jan 10 2008 | Filed under: Fruit, breakfast, vkcb
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 [...]
african vanielje on Jan 10 2008 | Filed under: Apples and Thyme, Fruit, food blogging event, kitchens, mothers
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 [...]
african vanielje on Sep 05 2007 | Filed under: Fruit, baking, how to, sweet kitchen, vkcb
Follow this recipe to make rich shortcrust pastry. This will do line one large 23 cm tin or 2 smaller tins.
Line your tin / flan dish and bake the pastry blind
Lightly beat an egg white just to loosen it, and brush over the part baked pastry while still warm. This seals the bottom and stops [...]
african vanielje on Sep 05 2007 | Filed under: Fruit, food blogging event
Of all the tropical fruits I love, none remind me so forcibly of home as granadilla. You may know it more intimately as passion fruit, although technically the granadilla is part of the passiflora (passion flower) group. These glorious creepers originated in Mexico and South America, but some types tolerate sub tropical climates and thus [...]
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