Recipes
Christmas recipes from Julie Biuso’s “Sweet Feast.”Do Christmas desserts and treats have to be loaded with calories or are there some...
Christmas Baking for the Slack Mummy’s Club
Slack Mummies haven’t spent much time in their kitchens lately but sooner or...
The Best Whiskey Christmas Cake Recipe
My quest for the best Christmas cake to bake this year is over. The winning recipe...
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Places to Eat
Eating Out in the Wellington SuburbsLast weekend I caught the shuttle to Auckland airport in the early hours of the...
Sydney Comfort Food
It was just our luck to visit Sydney last weekend on one of the coldest May mornings...
Lunch at Eight at the Auckland Langham
Had lunch at Eight ,the new restaurant at the Langham today. Such a cool experience....
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Book Reviews
Christmas recipes from Julie Biuso’s “Sweet Feast.”Do Christmas desserts and treats have to be loaded with calories or are there some which are relatively fat free and healthy but still delicious? I had a chat about this recently with Julie Biuso, food editor of Taste Magazine and author of recently published “Sweet Feast”. It’s packed full of tempting desserts and baking, many of which first... [Read more of this review]
Celebrating Matariki with Charles Royal
Charles Royal, well known Maori Chef, sees Matariki as “the time when the sap runs, and a good time to plant and transplant any plants that need to be attended to before the growing season”. A Feast is always part of it. But although Charles is passionate about food he feels that Matariki is more about people getting together than about what you... [Read more of this review]
The Tin Goose Cafe Cookbook
A passion for cooking and years spent creating recipes for the family owned Tin Goose Cafes in Central Otago inspired Jeanie Watson to write her own recipe book. New recipe books by South Island chefs are as scarce as hens’ teeth. One reason for this, as Jeanie discovered is that in the current economic climate New Zealand Publishers are very reluctant... [Read more of this review]
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