Shared Kitchen - Real food from scratch

Eggplant Polenta Pie

Spectacular. You can see that. So I suggest you head to the kitchen and get cooking.

Ilaria’s Easter Lamb

This dish is warming, aromatic and takes zilch time to prepare.

Tomato & Goat’s Cheese Tarts

The tarts feature on the cover of my book Julie Biuso At Home. I'd forgotten how much I loved them until I made them again recently.

Braised Brisket with Snail Pasta

Whoa! This is a mamma of a dish, not for light eaters or those on diets. It’s perfect to serve to a crowd because it can be stretched to feed a few more mouths quite easily. There’ll be more brisket than you need to go with the pasta, but it’ll happily transform into other dishes.

Polenta

Polenta may have humble origins, being served as a type of gruel back in the day, but just look at it now!

Waiheke Live!

Waiheke Happenings Festivals, Markets, Creative Arts, Song & Poetry … Easter weekend is the busiest weekend on Waiheke, partly due to the jazz festival which is held over the weekend at various venues. The festival is now called the Waiheke, Jazz, Art & Music Festival to reflect the wider range of events on offer, though […]

Broccoli & Cannellini Smash

Why have one purée when you can have two? Both are delicious, but add them together and you won’t be able to stop yourself chowing down.

Roasted Cauliflower Salad

This is simply delicious. Serve as part of a vegetable meal with hummus and other bits and bobs, or with a roast chicken, fried fish or pork roast or pork fillet.

Feijoa & Banana Oaty Crumble

Bananas don’t keep a particularly nice colour when cooked but when mixed with feijoas the perfume is exotic and the sweet-sharp taste is intense.

Feijoas

Feijoas are right show-offs. Stick one in a fruit bowl to ripen and it’ll soon fill the room with its heady, tropical scents of banana, sweet strawberry, ripe pineapple and guava. The creamy-coloured flesh, apart from the jellied seeds, is granular like a pear in some varieties, smoother in others. Feijoas ripen from the inside […]

Broken Broccoli

Extra virgin olive oil, garlic and parmesan are broccoli's best friends. Just trot them all out together and wait for the response.

Scaloppine Colosseo

Little squares of browned veal, topped with slivers of garlic that have been cooked until nutty and crisp and spiked with chilli, is an old Biuso family favourite. To ring the changes, I’ve coated the veal in breadcrumbs and parmesan, but you can omit this step if you prefer.