Archives for November 2018

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Summer Bean & Eggplant Salad

Don’t you hate a naked bean salad? I mean, if you wanted to eat undressed beans, you could just eat them straight out of the can. Come on! Dress it up. Make it tasty.

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.

Prawns & Crunchy Salad with Sesame Dressing

Succulent prawns with the crunch of a good salad, doused in a sweet sour sesame dressing with a nice bite of chilli is just the thing for hot weather.

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.

Waiheke happenings this week

Santa’s snack is ready. Bread and water. Not.

Don’t be frightened …

Don’t hold back. Give it heaps. Add that salt!

Roasted Chicken Nibbles with Yellow & Red Peppers

You know the saying ‘A watched pot never boils.’? Add another saying to the list: ‘An unstirred dish of chicken nibbles, potatoes and peppers will burn.’ Apart from that, this dish is a doddle.

Rigatoni with Eggplant & Roasted Tomatoes

Bang the gong! This is awesome.

Crema Catalana – Catalan Crème Brûlée

Author Emma Warren makes a mean Crema Catalana. See how.

Baby Broad Bean & Pea Salad – Amanida de Favetes I Pèsols

If you can find it in a deli, finely shaved duck jamón, tossed through at the end, dresses up this salad beautifully.

The Catalan Kitchen

Catalan cuisine – edgy, surprising, intriguing, comforting. New book by Emma Warren.

Radicchio

I love the striking colour of radicchio and the way it lifts a bowl of green salad … and it’s refreshing minerally bitter bite in other dishes.

Artichokes – did I mention spikes!

Deal to them – no mercy – lop the tops off the buggers along with any other spiky unloveable parts.

Linguine with Feta, Broad Beans, Pine Nuts & Rocket

Here’s a spring pasta dish that rings all the bells: bouncy fresh, packed with flavour, fast and filling. And good for you.

Waiheke’s market

Colourful characters, buskers, kids, dogs, collectibles and more … oh, better mention good food.

Wet Sundays

How to lift a boring wet Sunday. Drink gin!

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 […]