Cooking with love: french toast and crisp cookies

A home-cooked meal beats a trip to a fancy restaurant any day.

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12th May, 2012

My mother cooked dinner for me last weekend. She has done that thousands of times, but this was very special. She’s recovering from a lengthy period of hospitalisation and recuperation that has meant we’ve taken her lots of food. I’m sure it took her almost all day to prepare my birthday roast-pork dinner, complete with fresh apple sauce and gravy, and a fragrant guava pie for dessert. It was the greatest gift of all: food cooked with love. I recently read two books with the central theme of cooking with love. The first, A Cook’s Life (Penguin/Lantern, $50), is the long-awaited ...

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