Archive for the 'kitchens' Category

Apples & Thyme # 4 - The Delectable, Unforgettable Valerie Crunchie Recipe

 
This month for our ongoing Apples & Thyme event I am going a bit further afield. Apples & Thyme is all about celebrating time in the kitchen with mothers and grandmothers, and today I am extending that to friends’ mothers.
 
From the day Dani and I first met when we were 12, to the [...]

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 [...]

Apples & Thyme #2

Yep, it’s true. We’re doing it again. Why? Well, about ten days into the first Apples & Thyme event last month, it became clear to Jeni and I that this was an event that touched a huge amount of people. We had a fantastic response, not just in numbers, but in [...]

Apples & Thyme #1 The roundup

Well, I know I love my mom, but I had no idea that so many of you out there are just as passionate as I am about your moms, grannies, nanas, aunties, surrogate mothers and grandmothers, mother-in-laws, and any other women that shaped and moulded you into who you are today . (To be fair, [...]