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Category: Julie’s Blog

Feedback on Shared Kitchen Book

Thank you Julie and Ilaria Your cookbook has been safely received. I have already included several of your recipes in our weekly meal plan. They all look so delicious and I love that the recipes are generally ‘no fuss’ – that’s my sort of cooking too! I really enjoy your newsletters as well. Jenny  Hello […]

Comments / Testimonials

Dear Julie I love the way your inspiring newsletter pops into my inbox just when I’m needing inspirational. The simple recipes with seasonal produce and gorgeous pictures never fail to put me back in the kitchen. Mary  Oh that put a smile on my face!! Love it – I so look forward to receiving you […]

Mix and match

Tacos, tortillas and a can of beans. Get inventive and feed the troops something tasty over the next few days.With your pantry sorted you only need to shop for fresh items.  Mask on, take your own shopping bags into the supermarket (don’t use a trolley; carrying the shopping around the aisles counts as exercise!).In and […]

Lockdown Week 1

25th March 2020 Hi everyone, You will notice a difference to the Shared Kitchen newsletter layout this week. As we all prepare to go into lockdown this evening in New Zealand I am not wasting your time or mine with frippery: it’s straight to the heart, an idea to feed your family with side ideas […]

Digging the dirt in Wairarapa

My brother Pat and I ventured out to the supermarket yesterday. I’m down in the Wairarapa staying with him and partner Lynne for a few weeks. Although they have impressive vegetable gardens and orchards, we needed a few extra things. Like milk. And flour. And bread. Masterton supermarket had promised ‘wipes’ for the trolley handles […]

Lifting the lid on frittata

The sins that have been committed under the name frittata. Stop! No more please. Call what you bake in the oven in a cake tin a vegetable bake. Got it? Yaaaah!

An interesting combination today, but it is all about flavour.

First up, cute as a button, burrata, little pouches of creamy cheesy ‘umptiousness, with caponata. Now here’s a thing, my late Sicilian mother-in-law might not have given the nod to this quick version of caponata, but that doesn’t take anything away from it. Mine is faster to make, packs a punch, and is quite delicious. […]

Sizzle & Crunch

Street food, sizzle & sun.
Read all about Sicily’s famed street food, Panelle, how to make them and what to do with them; how to make the crispiest batter for fried fish and much more.