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Waiheke delivered!

A garden party needs these things to be successful: good weather, great food, good amounts of booze, a beautiful location, and guests willing to enjoy themselves.

Verjuice

Keep a bottle of verjuice on hand to deglaze frying pans and roasting tins, to lift up all those sticky little nuggets of flavour.

Broad Bean & Tangelo Salad

Colour, tang, juice and salt. Sounds all good to me.

Smoked Fish Hash Cakes

Nothing wrong with a hash cake for dinner!

Garlic – time for an update

Have you seen these cutsey bundles of garlic in a shop near you? How good are you at reading labels?

Waiheke Garden Festival 2017 – Get yourself here!

Breathtakingly beautiful Sacred Blessing Sanctuary garden, lovely Lynda Hallinan regaling us with her gardening anecdotes, Julie Biuso on canapés … Waiheke Garden Party is set to rock!

Tangelos

What’s a tangelo all about?

Of all the citrus tangelos are the juiciest, the most bracing, offering fresh acidity tempered with gorgeous sweetness. Did you know they are a cross between …

Feta

It may be a cliché, but feta served with a salad of olives, tomatoes and bread and drizzled with olive oil, makes a fabulous summer lunch.

The clock is ticking

Are you set to go for festive and summer entertaining?

Cooking Classes Savour A Slice of Waiheke

Get your mojo rocking and come on over to Waiheke for an inspiring cooking class.

Broad Bean & Potato Mash

Fluffy mash, broad beans and succulent spring lamb. Eat it up!

Bissara – Moroccan Broad Bean Dip

Mysterious and green, zinging with chilli, let bissara take centre stage at your next drinks gathering.

Broad Beans

The only way to eat a broad bean is when it is very young, crisp textured and bright green, or, parboiled and stripped of its outer skin.

Lynne’s Cheese Scones

Light and fluffy, golden topped and crisp bottomed, the perfect cheese scone.

Carrots are the star this week because a sweet young carrot is a lovely thing, and with a few ingredients to hand they can be more than just a splash of colour on a plate. Feathery herbs are growing an inch a day on Waiheke in this weather. Carrots will happily cosy up with parsley, […]

3 ways with carrots

Carrots are often added to a plate for colour … but they can be the centre of a delicious all-vegetable dinner.

Baby Carrots Baked in the Oven

Baby carrots. Sexy little things aren’t they.

Humpf Day

Did someone say Hump Day? I’m up for it, but I wish they could spell my name correctly.

Corsica – a new book on an ancient way of cooking

Interested in good food writing? Get a copy of Corsica by Nicolas Stromboni.

Cucumber Salad – Ilaria nabs a bargain

Feeding yourself cheaply.

Fennel – fancy things up with feathery leaves or pollen

If I could resist harvesting my fennel bulbs, they would have babies, slim fennel-ettes would start forming that I could pluck out leaving the plant to continue growing and forming more of the same. But I can’t, of course.