This is great for a decadent brunch or lunch, or serve as a substantial telly snack (you know, while watching the rugby or whatever)
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Grilled Broccolini with Feta
Skinny green stems never tasted so good.
Baked Potatoes in White Wine – time to revisit
White wine keeps the interior of these potatoes nice and fluffy, but the outsides develop a good golden crunch. Pretty good, yep.
Pea Soup with Spicy Sprinkle
Peas in a soup? Yeah! Thick, warming, intriguing … oh, and speedy, and requiring little more than a bag of frozen peas and a few spices. This was so popular last week, I’ve kept it up for another blast!
Pears
Pears are often overlooked for novel or exotic fruit and I reckon it’s because we’ve lost the art of ripening them and we’re eating them hard.
Lunch in the shed
Finally, I made it to Te Motu The Shed for lunch. On a sunny Sunday …
Potato & Celeriac Mash with Crispy Bacon
Pillowy mash with little salty nuggets of bacon – go on, make it, you know you want some!
Winter cooking classes
My next round of classes include some beauties – slow cooking, winter pasta and rustic dishes – all just the ticket for this time of year. As on all classes, you will get a full taste of all the dishes, be served some fabulous wines, and come away with a great set of recipes having […]
Ilaria’s Burnt Orange Soup
This soup is insanely easy – you probably can’t get much simpler than this.
Chicken with Spanish Flavours
Whoop-de-whoop! Chicken, chorizo, smoked paprika, char-grilled red pepper, orange & olives … all you need is a fork!
Which bacon would you choose?
It’s not all about looks
Island Life – Wasting time on weeds
Making Rocky Bay weed-free seems to be a waste of time!
Cavolo Nero – with chilli!
Green leafy things get a kick along