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Category: Breakfast
Blueberries
Add a squirt of lemon to blueberries – it brings them alive!
Almond Milk with Turmeric – What a tonic!
There are plenty of reasons to try this drink (no, not just because it’s yellow!) …
Ilaria’s Breakfast Eggs with Magic Balls
Ilaria’s magic balls! Fluffy golden brown, dissolve in your mouth = gotta have!
A messy Sunday night supper – asparagus & eggs
Mmmm. If you love eggs, and you love asparagus, it’s time to dunk!
Orange Salad with Maple Dressing
Oh so pretty, oh so simple, oh so perfect for right now!
Want to start your day on a sweet note but still eat healthily?
Sweeten your day the good way!
Avocado on Pide with Preserved Lemon & Bacon
This is great for a decadent brunch or lunch, or serve as a substantial telly snack (you know, while watching the rugby or whatever)
Ricotta Hot Cakes
Light-as-air hot cakes. Serve ’em up and watch them go!
Button Mushrooms with Thyme
If your barbecue is still doing service, or if you have just cleaned the cobwebs off yours in preparation for summer, a sizzle-up of mushrooms for a late breakfast with a tomato on the side and an egg sunny side up, or over easy, is just the business.
Mushrooms
How to make the most of cultivated mushrooms.
Chelsea buns animation
Looking for something other than hot cross buns to wow family and friends this Easter? Try these soft and tender, sweet and spicy Chelsea buns. They’re always a winner!
Raisin Bread with Ricotta, Honey & Barbecued Peaches
Add a savoury note with a few flecks of thyme – it makes a difference!
A Wellington Institution
If they ever take this off the menu …
Food Truck Sunday
A line-up of food trucks along Wellington’s Queens Wharf gets the heart racing …
Supper in a pan
Nothing wrong with this for supper.
Island Life – That’s more like it
Bacon & eggs for dinner? Why not …get a glass of sav on the go, find a sunny spot and away you go.
Ilaria’s London Flatting Eggs
Cook in the pan. Serve in the pan. Only one thing to wash. Mum – it could be good for you on Waiheke to save water!
Labna balls
It’s easy making your own labna balls – just strain yoghurt until thick, then flavour it with dukkah, spices, herbs or edible flower petals.
Blueberry Power Breakfast Shake
Great way to start the day: Purple Power!
Oat Waffles with Wild Berries
Eat your colours for breakfast.
Le Croque Madame
Croque madame makes no apologies for being extra rich, gooey and drippy, and for being lip-smackingly good, filling and ultra satisfying.
Le Croque Monsieur
Sometimes the French get it just so right: bread, cheese, ham, all bundled together into the most glorious mouthful.
French Omelette with Bacon, Crème Fraîche & Chives
An omelette is a 2-minute meal, ready when you are. This one’s amazing – salty, tangy, savoury – and really hits the spot.
Cheesy Scrambled Eggs Rolled in Soft Tortillas
Soft pillows of creamy eggs atop tortillas with a handful of coriander & feta, dotted with chilli sauce, is a great way to say ‘Hello there morning!’
Dianne’s 5 Grain Bread
My kind of bread – mix it, bake it, eat it. No kneading, rising or faffing around with these babies.