Category: Summer

Hot-smoked Salmon Salad with Beets, Potatoes & Yoghurt Dill Sauce

Summer on a plate! Delicious and good for you. Rings all the bells …

Pickled Beets

Sweet but tangy, just the right balance.

Yoghurt Dill Sauce

This little quickie sauce will add zing to the simplest fish dish. Oh, and it’s low in fat!

Gazpacho – A chill thrill!

Like a blast of cold air from a fan up your shirt or skirt on a sweltering day … Yup! Icy cold gazpacho is exhilarating!

Fennel seed and other such things

Letting some fennel plants go to seed, (accidentally or on purpose), will ensure you have fresh fennel seeds to use in dishes.

Grilled Pizza

These pizzas are sooooo good.

Sweet Corn Quiche

A quiche worth making

Blueberry Muffins – Best Ever!

Scrumptious. Best-ever. All of that. These are the only muffins you should be making.

Fattoush MY WAY

Sumac gives this salad a nice little lemony bite.

Michelada

You could liken this to a Bloody Mary, a hangover cure, but it is fab on a really hot day, no hangover required!

Sweet Corn with Lime & Tarragon Mayo

Rich, yes. Gorgeous, YES! Sweet corn caramelised on a barbecue then slathered with tarragon butter & mayo, and dusted with parmesan, cumin & smoked paprika, served with lime wedges, is a winner!

Holy Guacamole with Extras

Truly Holy Guacamole! A good chunky guac topped with hot-smoked salmon, preserved lemons and lime leaf fluff. Far out!

Watermelon & Feta with Lemon-infused Oil

This is always a crowd pleaser. Ramp it up a notch with lemon oil, green chilli and spiced rockmelon seeds!

Watermelon

Chilled, juicy and sweet, watermelon is the quintessential summer snack.

Chicken Soup with Noodles, Coriander & Lime

Snip, snip, snip those noodles (don’t get caught!). Long noodles, long life.. but who cares ’cause short noodles are easier to eat!

Baked Eggplant with Spices & Preserved Lemon

Bake a batch of these bad boys, grab some olives, good bread, tomatoes – that kind of thing – and have an easy summer feast!

Radish & Cucumber Salad

What to serve with this fresh and crunchy salad? I’d go for fish, steamed, barbecued, fried, baked, any which way you like.

No need to get the beers in … go out for them!

Come watch our gig Saturday 27th January at The Great Kiwi Beer Festival

Beef & Pickle Burgers

Homemade burgers made from scratch, (by that I mean making your own mince) are sensational.

Baked Peppers with Feta

Here’s a quickie for midweek. Team these peppers with a grain salad and leafy greens for a healthy meal.

Summer Traybake

Good old tray bake – you’ll be my friend again in 2018.

New season garlic is here. Get chomping!

All your medicine in a pearly white clove: antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, anti-fungal, antioxidant = GARLIC.

Fresh Tuna Salad

This is loosely modelled on a typical salad you might find around Nice … but there’s a bit of a leap of faith here.

Build a plate of berries

A little creative plating can help expensive berries feed many mouths … and it looks so festive!

Lamb Steaks with Summer Vegetables

Beautifully pink and juicy barbecued lamb … it doesn’t get much better than this.

Prawn & Chorizo Bites

Get a bit of a Spanish sizzle going on the grill for a tasty start to any meal. Yes!