Once, we made ice cream in the summer because the season demanded it. The grass was high, cows were in milk and orchards heaved with fruit. Today, we buy ice cream from stores because it’s cold and we ...

Instructions: Place the water, sugar, lemon juice and cardamom seeds in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, reduce to heat and simmer for 1 minute. Add the apricots. Return to a boil, ...

Apricots add a wonderful sweetness to this meal. Photo / Babiche Martens If your pork has a bone, add 45 minutes to the cooking time. Simple flavours on the pork mean the cooked apricots have their ...

Apricots, anise, almond and pistachio are like an A-Team of flavour combinations. Each plays their role impeccably, but they all bring something different to the table. Preheat the oven to 220°C.

Apricots can promise a lot but deliver little. It’s not their fault. Too often they’re picked too early so they look good but taste either hard or woolly. Choosing apricots can be a bit of fruit ...

If your pork has a bone, add 45 minutes to the cooking time. Simple flavours on the pork mean the cooked apricots have their day with a delicious, rich sweetness. Lining the baking tray makes life ...

Sybil Parsa knew from a young age she’d spend a good chunk of her life in the kitchen. That’s how girls are brought up in Peru, said Parsa, who opened her own cooking school, At Sybil’s Kitchen, here ...

I spent a lot of time in Birmingham when my husband was a patient at UAB Hospital. He’s home now, thank goodness. I am thrilled to be back home and, of course, so is he. During his hospitalization, ...

Apricots are the finest of summer's fruits, with dense, juicy flesh and delicate, velvety skins. Piled in baskets in farmers market stalls, they seem to glow in the early morning light. The prettiest ...