Nigel Slater's recipes for fried cauliflower with mint tahini, and apple maple syrup cake

Crispy, spicy fried cauli and a juicy apple cake to sustain us as we head for spring Spring comes rather late to the kitchen. While the gardens, greenhouses and allotments are fizzing with seedlings and opening buds, anyone who likes to cook seasonally has no alternative but to muddle through March with what are essentially winter vegetables and fruit. Still, there are some great cauliflowers around for baking under paprika-freckled cheese sauces or for simmering into a fine, ivory soup. I rang ...