Homemade burger buns
While it hasn’t exactly been a barbeque summer, we’ve still taken every opportunity to have homemade burgers, especially since I got this recipe licked. While the burgers – be they thick, meaty beef ones, large flat...
While it hasn’t exactly been a barbeque summer, we’ve still taken every opportunity to have homemade burgers, especially since I got this recipe licked. While the burgers – be they thick, meaty beef ones, large flat...
I love pies – beef pies, chicken pies, spinach pies, I’ll take all comers! – but the single-crust sort I make normally falls firmly into the winter warmer category. Not so the traditional Kiwi...
What do you see when you look at this photo? I see sunshine. Badly needed sunshine. Sunshine in the form of a Burnt Lemon and Feta Dip. Ever since I visited Crackbird I’ve been...
Stock making is often a bone (ahem) of contention. Cooks from one school of thought say that you’re missing out on one of the best parts of a roast chicken if you don’t make...
Food for Friends / Lovely Lunches
by Caroline · Published January 17, 2012 · Last modified January 30, 2019
Parmesan, tomato puree, garlic, balsamic vinegar: all kitchen staples that we use, almost unthinkingly, every day when cooking. They are also four of the ingredients in Laura Santtini‘s intriguing Taste #5 Umami Paste. Named...
I was digging through the archives this week to find my recipes for Christmas Muffins and Mincemeat and Polenta Shortbread – much better ways of using up mincemeat than trying to make fiddly mince pies with my pair...
I’ve got two words for you: Sweetcorn Fritters. Sunshine on a plate. I always associate them with cafés in New Zealand, eaten outside in the morning sunshine, sunglasses on and a long black, aka a...
Bake / Food for Friends / Life
by Caroline · Published October 23, 2011 · Last modified February 12, 2018
A lazy Sunday morning. Outside our new draft-proof windows it’s solidly pouring rain but indoors at the cottage, the fire already lit, we’re all warm and still sleepy. The Husband’s parents have spent the...