Category: Winter

Easy Oven-baked Potatoes

If you can peel and slice a potato you can make this dish!

Radicchio & Witloof Salad

This hardly needs a recipe, but here you go, just in case …

Farmhouse Chicken with Belly Pork & Potatoes

Take a quick visit to a French country kitchen with this dish.

Bubble & Squeak Cakes

Bubble & Squeak … What a name!

Vegetable Curry

Eat your coloureds in the tastiest way!

Pan-fried Brussels Sprouts

Shake a stick at Brussels sprouts! Add rosemary, garlic, nutmeg, lemon and hazelnuts and watch them disappear.

Broccolini Bruschetta

Start with good bread. Invest in good oil. Begin the feast!

Roasted Pork Belly Strips

Golden crusty succulent pork. Yeah!

Rocket & Persimmon Salad

Sparkly and perky, that’s just how you want an autumnal salad to be.

Cauliflower Roasted with Spiced Butter

Brushing cauliflower with spiced butter ensures it will colour to a rich golden brown … and the smell (mmmm!).

Parsley Salad

This salad’s sharp, salty, grassy bite can take on strongly flavoured foods. Look for a match of terrine, pâtés and game dishes.

Apple & Blackberry Crumble

There’s nothing more comforting than a good fruit crumble.

Ilaria’s Spicy Chickpea Bunnuce Burgers with Green Chilli Yoghurt Dressing

These are seriously so good that I swear they’ll beat any kebab and falafel combo that a 1am service, or any other time, can offer you.

Apple Galettes

You got 10 minutes? That’s all it takes to assemble these irresistible morsels.

Lentils & Cavolo Nero with Spiced Yoghurt

Fab combo – lentils, cavolo nero & spiced yoghurt – with nuts and seeds, oh, and add a fried egg!

Porcini Ragu

Authentic porcini and meat ragu … it can be softened with a swirl of cream for the faint-hearted.

Crispy Fried Polenta

Golden crunch – who can resist that?

Risotto – Oven-baked Mushroom Risotto

Sizzle and stir, stack and bake … then devour!

Mushroom, Leek & Potato Soup

Here’s a big pot of goodness to serve to the troops.

Puy Lentil & Chorizo Soup

Chorizo gives layers of flavour to this soup. And it’s one of those soups that tastes even better the day after making.

Silverbeet – how to make the most of a backyard staple

A Kiwi gardener’s favourite – you can ignore it, and it just keeps on growing! Read how to make the most of it.

Beetroot – multi coloured!

Candy-coloured beetroot will turn heads at your next gathering.

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.

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!