Category: Spring

Fresh Herb & Edible Flower Salad

Fresh, fragrant and downright pretty, edible flowers add character to a plain green salad. Yes they do!

Crushed Peas with Feta & Chervil

Off to the bakery you go for this recipe to get well-made bread that grills to an audible crunch, but doesn’t cut your mouth with dry sharp fragments.

Quick Lemon Curd

Easy when you know how – just use the right lemons!

Warm Carrot Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette

Keep them crunchy.

Peas with Pancetta

Peas with little salty nuggets of pork belly. Whoop. Whoop.

Crispy Lamb Cutlets with Pea Mash & Golden Onions

Biting into a crunchy-crusted succulent lamb cutlet … sweet minty pea purée, sneaky hit of chilli .. oh she’s good!

Sizzled potatoes – all buttery, crunchy and golden

You can get all fancy and give the potatoes a quick toss in the pan, and with a bit of luck they’ll all end up back in the pan. Otherwise, follow the 2-second rule, or whistle in the dog.

Grilled Swiss Sandwiches

Cheesey, melty, crunchy, tangy, salty, juicy mmmm. Brunch has never been better.

Broad Bean & Tangelo Salad

Colour, tang, juice and salt. Sounds all good to me.

Waiheke Garden Festival 2017 – Get yourself here!

Breathtakingly beautiful Sacred Blessing Sanctuary garden, lovely Lynda Hallinan regaling us with her gardening anecdotes, Julie Biuso on canapés … Waiheke Garden Party is set to rock!

Tangelos

What’s a tangelo all about?

Of all the citrus tangelos are the juiciest, the most bracing, offering fresh acidity tempered with gorgeous sweetness. Did you know they are a cross between …

Broad Bean & Potato Mash

Fluffy mash, broad beans and succulent spring lamb. Eat it up!

Bissara – Moroccan Broad Bean Dip

Mysterious and green, zinging with chilli, let bissara take centre stage at your next drinks gathering.

Broad Beans

The only way to eat a broad bean is when it is very young, crisp textured and bright green, or, parboiled and stripped of its outer skin.

3 ways with carrots

Carrots are often added to a plate for colour … but they can be the centre of a delicious all-vegetable dinner.

Baby Carrots Baked in the Oven

Baby carrots. Sexy little things aren’t they.

Fennel – fancy things up with feathery leaves or pollen

If I could resist harvesting my fennel bulbs, they would have babies, slim fennel-ettes would start forming that I could pluck out leaving the plant to continue growing and forming more of the same. But I can’t, of course.