Avocado noodle salad with gochujang dressing
What a roller-coaster of a week it’s been, from the saddest of days saying goodbye to my beloved Granny who has now left this life, to the very next day being awarded the Best Editorial Recipe Writing award at The Foodies – NZ Food Media Awards for my work in Cuisine Magazine. Throw a sick […]
Plum, cardamom + black pepper shrub
Shrubs are the perfect way to preserve the last of summer’s plums in this apple-cider vinegar boosted drink laced with cardamom + black pepper.
Bread and butter pickles (gluten-free + vegan)
Things are looking a bit sad in the garden at this time of the year. We’ve just picked the last of our cucumbers, our courgette (zucchini) are nearing their last legs, I’ve pulled out all my flowers (sob), bar a few sunflowers which I’m waiting to save seeds from. Our Maori potatoes are nearly dying […]
Smash-roasted perlas potatoes with creamy horseradish mayonnaise
Growing up we ate a lot of potatoes. Mum has mentioned more than once there were times when us kids only ate potatoes and not much else! I’m sure we ate other things, but I do have strong memories of freshly cooked spuds, generously slathered in butter and sprinkled with nutritional yeast (don’t judge, we […]
Chive Blossom Vinegar + a little garden update
When I started this blog (nearly 9 years ago!) we had our little veggie garden going in the backyard of our first house. We grew as much as we could in the 3 small raised beds we had. Then we moved to Western Australia, and in the 5 years we spent there we tried our […]
roasted carrot hummus
We seem to go on food-benders in our family. One week it will be sushi the kids request daily, the next week they won’t want to know about sushi but instead crave cheese and crackers, but for quite some time hummus has been the favoured after-school snack. When I’m caught out and haven’t had time […]
Roasted carrot, quinoa + corn salad with jalapeno lime dressing (vegan + gluten-free)
When you get a call at 3.30pm inviting you to a potluck BBQ that evening, and you’re a gluten-free vegetarian, this salad might just save you. It saved me. Knowing I needed to create something substantial enough to pass as dinner (in case it was the only thing my kids and I could eat) I […]
