Salty/sweet is a particularly satisfying combination. This toffee, which takes no time at all to make, hits that brief squarely. Consist...

One of my earliest cooking memories is helping my grandmother with morning tea. Technically, what I was delegated to do was not so much ...

About this time last year I went to a pickling workshop. It was very Portlandia to be sure - a bunch of white middle class women in han...

Here are two undisputed facts about my mother: 1. She makes amazing chutney. 2. She is utterly unsentimental.  Whenever I go home ...

I was going to make something else for the blog this week but the Danish pastry I pulled from the oven Saturday morning was an unmit...

My mother and I are very different cooks. I'm a recipe-follower, she's more of a free-wheeler, adding and subtracting ingredient...

I love winter. But after a while it can get a bit monochromatic. Which is perhaps why I found myself drawn, as if by magnetic force, to ...

A minor miracle took place while I was away. The herbs in my window box did not die. This probably had less to do with divine interventi...