Wild rice

Is wild rice actually rice? Is it better for you than white rice?

Is wild rice actually rice? Is it better for you than white rice?

Don’t despair if your first attempts produce holey shredded dough (mine did!) because with a little practice you’ll soon be turning out silky smooth sheets of pasta like a pro.

Ever stood at the bench picking bits of eggshell off hard-boiled eggs? You need to know …

You may notice some funny spellings of words on Shared Kitchen and that’s because I am a New Zealander. We spell colour with a u, as they do in England, and fibre, centre, metre as they do, too.

The chooks are going off! Spring fever. Laying like crazy. That’s good!

Crêpes 101, everything you need to know.

Though it seems just like yesterday, it was in fact 40 years ago that I spent a week walking the hills of Crete.
A striking memory is the aromatic scents that rose all around us as we crushed wild thyme and oregano underfoot. The oregano was ‘rigani’, origanum vulgare (hirtum). Bit of a gob-full, I suppose, but the last name (hirtum) is pretty important.
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