african vanielje on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Apples and Thyme, food blogging event
The thing about me, my mother and kitchens is that we’ve spent a lot of time in them together. If not in her kitchen at home, in her restaurant kitchen, where I learnt how to work. And I do mean work. Commercial kitchens are in no way glamorous. Mascara melts off [...]
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 [...]
african vanielje on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: food blogging event, kitchens, mothers
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, [...]
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