carrot & red lentil soup with minted eggplant recipe
With autumn finally creeping in here, I’ve been feeling the urge to start cooking warm comfort food once more. For a minute there, as the droplets of sweat ran down my back for yet another day, it felt like the intense heat of summer was never going to end. Family and friends back home kept […]
salt and vinegar kale chip recipe
I know, I know. Before you say anything, I know I’m way behind the eight-ball on last years kale chip craze. Call me out of fashion if you will. I won’t take offence. It’s just that I’ve never had my hands on enough kale at one time to bother with making them 🙂 It seemed […]
raw kale salad with garlic feta dressing recipe
I’ve been cooking with kale for a number of years, way back in my Sydney days at Belinda Franks catering, baby cavolo nero was all the rage. The trend took a wee bit longer to hit New Zealand shores but I’d say about 5-6 years ago I noticed it creeping onto menus around the country. […]
red quinoa with garlic & thyme roasted cherry tomato recipe
So once again, I’m not quite sure where to begin today’s post. It may have something to do with the fact that I am so insanely busy at the moment that my brain feels fried? You may remember me talking about heading to Wellington to make an appearance on the Good Morning show. Well, that […]
simple rustic tomato sauce recipe
I’m not quite sure where to start today’s post. So much has happened in the past week that I’m almost lost for words. It seems almost selfish to be carrying on with life, writing about homemade tomato sauce when the people of Christchurch have had their lives turned upside down for the second time in […]
grilled courgette with parsley, olives & garlic crumbs recipe
It has been an eventful few weeks for our family, and not all in a good way. Si badly hurt his foot kitesurfing 2 weeks ago, and has been off work ever since. The timing couldn’t have been any worse, with us trying to pack up our lives for the big move to Perth, in […]
carrot, white bean and coriander salad recipe
So, as promised, here’s a little bit of savoury goodness (amongst all the sweet!) to get you through the weekend. I came across this recipe in the New Zealand Vegetable cookbook. Some of the biggest names in NZ food writing; Lorraine Jacobs, Ginny Grant and Kathy Paterson, have teamed up to produce this gorgeous seasonal […]
