Tag: Winter
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Celeriac & Apple Soup with a Hazelnut Crumb
Celeriac may look like the brute of the vegetable patch, but this underused root is a complete gem in the kitchen. We love it roasted with thyme, as a silky puree beneath roasted fish and meats, thinly sliced and baked with cream and plenty of rosemary and as a velvety base for all kinds of…
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Kaffir & Clementine Gin Fizz
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m a little over January. I know that one should never wish the time away, but there’s something about this month that would test even the truest optimist. Perhaps it’s the rather melancholic sight of spent Christmas trees dropping their needles on the curb side, of unlit lights,…
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The King’s Hot Chocolate
Last weekend we were set for snow – heavy snow – and the husband was positively giddy at the prospect of crunching through newly fallen powder and being kept from the office on Monday morning. His disappointment then, when the forecasted blizzard turned into a half-hearted flurry and then to sleet, was tangible. As the…
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Coconut & Cashew Hot Chocolate
During the last few months of my pregnancy, hot chocolate became something of an obsession. The sparkle of the festive season was strictly off limits (as were those dark winter cocktails that warm one all the way to one’s toes) and so I turned my attention to something that was allowed – and goodness, did…