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...
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Picnic days: Bacon and Egg Pie
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...
Sunshine on your plate: Burnt Lemon and Feta Dip
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...
Chicken, Mushroom and Barley Stew with Spring Greens
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...
Taste #5 Umami Paste, Lentil and Bacon Soup
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...
A few Christmas favourites
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...
Brunch special: Sweetcorn Fritters
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...
Sunday morning pikelets
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...