You make it, we’ll eat it. Yep, consumption of specialty cheeses in New Zealand is on the rise.
Archives for September 2019
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Quick Cauliflower & Ginger Stir-fry
You’ll never throw cauliflower stalks away again!
Lasagne with Pesto
Perfect for an all vegetable meal.
Nutmeg and mace
Add a few grates of nutmeg to give a spicy whiff to vegetables and meats.
What’s for dinner tonight? Baked Pasta!
Such a glorious dish – easy, smells tantalising, tastes delicious and fills the hole. Baked pasta never lets you down.
Festival Italiano returns!
Biggest street party to be held this October in Auckland.
Spring Salad with Cumin-crumbed Fish & Avocado
Fresh, spring-like, zingy and crunchy. Sounds good to me.
Maple Roasted Red Grapes & Haloumi
Salty, squeaky, cheesy … and with roasted grapes. Woop!
Pan-fried Prawns with Sugar Snaps
Superb! Best prawns I’ve eaten in a long time.
Shortbread
Shortbread makes a great foodie gift wrapped in cellophane.
Cumin – make it pop with flavour
The work-horse of spices – earthy, warming, smelling of toasted nuts and roasted coffee beans. I have it on great authority that it is pronounced ‘come in’ (not q-min), though I usually forget that!
Song & Poetry Thing
Ting-a-ling, Ta-Ta-Ta, Woop or Warble, all welcome to our monthly Song & Poetry Thing. Held the last Thursday of every month at Found Café Waiheke.
Brown Sugar Almond Crumbles with Gingered Apple & Pear
Go on – make a hole in the crumble and pour in a good swig of cream, or better still, add a decent-sized blob of vanilla ice cream.
Apple brown Betty – American Sweetheart
Crunch and munch – Apple brown Betty is the perfect way to use leftover sandwich bread!
Stewed Fennel with Black Olives
Italian way with fennel that goes with everything … and nothing (like, a bowl on its own with a crust of bread is pretty awesome!).
Pork Schnitzels with Parmesan Crust
Golden, crunchy, crusty schnitzels do it for me every time.
Here’s the lowdown on making golden crunchy snitzel
Getting a golden crunchy crust on snitzels is easy when you know how.
Hump Day
I wish it would stop raining.
Apricot & Almond Tart with Frangipane
Look for tangy apricots, not sweet ones, because it is that tang that gives this tart the X-factor.
Spaghetti all’Amatriciana – Midweek made easy!
A dedication to the town of Amatrice and her people.
Barley & Cavolo Nero Gratin
Good old-fashioned cooking can’t be beat.
French Roasted Chicken with Verjuice
Get your groove on with this chicken mamma – it’s so amazing!
Fish Cakes with Coconut & Lime
These are tasty, tart and hot, and deliciously coconutty. I can never decide whether I like them more with the coconut chilli dressing or the lime and chilli one, so I usually make both!
Butternut Pumpkin with Cannellini Beans & Sage
Nothing wrong with bubbling golden cheese as a topping!