Potatoes for Christmas
It’s so easy to grow spuds in a bag!
My spring garden
I’ve discovered that there are a lot of plants I can leave in my garden to grow on another year. It comes down to space and whether you want to put winter vegetables in at the end of summer.
Squishy butter
Yes, it’s a thing! Squishy butter is just what you want when creaming butter for a cake or sponge. It’s the first step to ensure that sugar will mix with the butter and ‘cream’, forming a light and fluffy base that will absorb egg yolks, which are also fat-based, when added. There is no way…
Eggs-cellent idea
Egg whites going begging? Store for later!
Beautiful gardens on Waiheke
For $50 you get to sticky-beak around 10 gorgeous Waiheke gardens!
That rumpled look
My bed always looks so tempting in the day.
Need a new part?
Look at that shiny curly springy thing.
I lost a week
Doesn’t look to be a lot going on in this person’s life.
I don’t want to cry
A very scientific test NOT.
What’s in the can?
All cream style corn is not created equal.
Rum and Que
Locals with a taste for barbecue making an international success. Win Rum and Que products!
Timmy Smith
Win Timmy Smith teas with Shared Kitchen.
Win fabulous cookbooks & prizes
It’s birthday month! It’s hard to believe that we launched the new-look Shared Kitchen one year ago in August. A birthday needs celebrating, and that’s what we will do this month with a horde of fabulous giveaways up for grabs when you renew or take out an annual subscription. I have chosen four exceptional cookbooks…
Who said sheep are silly?
Who said sheep are silly? Why do they baa in the night? When do they give birth? The answers to these questions show, they are very smart.
Stop spitting!
This may look like a flashback to bad flatting days, but it is a great tip. When
Snow peas
Snow peas are crunchy, pea-sweet and juicy. And easy to grow.
Matariki menus PREMIUM
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Use these recipes to create a fabullous feast for family and friends this Matariki.
Winter garden 2024
Growing your own food is outrageously good fun (well, the digging’s not!).
How to grow a hyacinth
It’s easy to grow a perfumed hyacinth!
Finger limes
Little pops of citrus.
Drunken woman
It’s not unusual to find drunken women in my garden.
Pink flamingo
A flamingo trying to steal the show.
My olive harvest
I called a friend over to help with the harvest; it was more of an excuse to drink wine and natter.
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