Shared Kitchen

Real food from scratch

Category: Julie’s Blog

Carving A Ham

Easy when you know how – try this method and produce lovely even slices, all edged with glaze.

3 soft tortillas

It’s weird and I don’t know why it works, but soft-cooked eggs on squished avocado just tastes so damned good.

Garlic – King of the plant world

Thanks California for helping us out over winter … but we don’t need you now. Oh, oops, though would you mind sending us your pomegranates for our festive tables? Ta.

A nod to Italy …

I’m going on an Italian bent for the next week or two. No, not actually going there, just sharing some terrific Italian family recipes. I first went to Italy in 1975. Holy smoke! I must have just been a baby (because, surely, I’m not that old!). I sailed into the gorgeous port of Genova and […]

Lifting the lid on frittata

The sins that have been committed under the name frittata. Stop! No more please. Call what you bake in the oven in a cake tin a vegetable bake. Got it? Yaaaah!

Making an omelette

I don’t know why people don’t cook omelettes more often. They’re so quick, so tasty and so utterly satisfying, that it’s almost criminal to think of dashing off to buy fast food when there’s an egg or two in the pantry.

A good yarn

Unravelling a ball of cheese. New Zealand’s buffaloes drive things up a notch.

Lemons are falling off the trees -use them!

There’s no point grizzling about the weather, here in New Zealand at any rate. It is still winter, though some days it feels like we’ve skipped spring and gone straight to summer. But not so. There is often still a nip in the air and there’s a tad more rain to fall. So, make the […]