SMALL RICOTTA CAKES DRENCHED IN HONEY AND HIBISCUS SYRUP
It's the last days of November but still I can hear and see bees busily working on the flowering trees on the plot next to where my car is parked. I have completely given up on remembering what they are called but if the weather is good and the bees can do their job, these flowers turn into yellowy orange fruits with big, black kernels. They are quite delicious and I often sneak over the low wall

Future - Present
The Future. We stand there, peering towards itlooking through the entrance at a wall the always prevents us from seeing, knowing what will happenforgetting to look where we stand and walk and thus often missing the beauty of where we are

SAVOY CABBAGE PARCELS WITH CELERIAC, RICE AND PANCETTA
Savoy cabbage is in my opinion one of the best cabbages there is, it has a sweetness to it that makes it a pleasure to eat and it is really such a versatile vegetable; you can eat it combined with most things and you can eat it steamed, braised or raw with the same pleasure. And it is beautiful too isn't it? I have to say that most vegetables and fruits are beautiful when you start looking at

SWEET COUSCOUS WITH PINK GRAPEFRUIT AND PINK PEPPER - Retro alla HotM
When I was thinking about which retro dish I would create for this month HotM, I obviously had to think backwards and that lead me to consider the strange habit we have to divide our past into decades and even manage to fit it into descriptive schemes. Time doesn't exist or rather, time is a way to measure that we have invented, it is not inherent in our universe. Or at least I don't think so but

SMALL LASAGNE STARTERS WITH MUSHROOMS AND RICOTTA
The other day when I was listening to a radio programme stumbling along a path in the woods with my dog on my mp3, I was suddenly struck by how lucky I am, as a woman, to have been born when I was, obviously I intend the Western part of the world and maybe even only Europe. I realize that it has been building up over the last couple of weeks because for some strange reason I have been listening