african vanielje on Feb 17 2008 | Filed under: Apples and Thyme, baking, food blogging event, kitchens, mothers, sweet kitchen
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 [...]
african vanielje on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: chocolate, food blogging event, ice cream, mothers
Along with her eclectic collection of biscuit tins which my mom always keeps stocked with fresh homemade biscuits, she generally has a freezer stash as well. My husband and my dad both have a late night sweet tooth and love nothing better than to snack on her secret hoard of syrupy sweet koeksusters [...]
african vanielje on Feb 05 2008 | Filed under: mothers, sweet kitchen
Strawberry Cream Pancakes with Vanielje Cream and Eau de Vie Syrup
My mom is the master pancake maker. I guess she had a lot of practice with all of us. In fact, I seem to remember my dad buying her a French copper crepe pan one February. It could have been for Valentine’s [...]
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 Dec 16 2007 | Filed under: Apples and Thyme, baking, cake, cake decorating, mothers, sweet kitchen
Christmas has not yet really started for me this year, which is odd because it usually starts bang on December the first. At the beginning of the month I managed to get myself to the starting line, I even produced an advent calendar for Dakota, made a batch of mince pies, and then [...]
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