Easy summer entertaining ideas from Telegraph Hill Olive Estate
Summer is the best of times to sit out on the deck and have friends over. But when the weather is hot, who feels like cooking? I’d rather serve food which is quick and easy to put together. It can still be delicious. So I had the idea this week of assembling a small but [...]
Organic Delights for Christmas
This morning the tuis in the trees outside our house woke us up bright and early so I decided to avoid the Christmas rush and do an early vegie shop at IE Produce in Takapuna. I got there too early and the doors were still shut! But outside I happened to meet Pascal from Organic [...]
Baking Christmas Cookies (Joulupiparkakut) from Finland
The spicy gingersnaps featured this week come from Finland which is home to over 200,000 reindeer. Santa will have no trouble recruiting some of them to pull his sleigh so avoiding their more usual destination, reindeer stew! There are many variations of this recipe. This particular one arrived at my friend Deb’s house via a [...]
Christmas presents for foodies
December 15, 2010 by admin
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Happiness is having Christmas sorted, and I’m well on the way. It’s been fun tracking down festive goodies in all sorts of different places. Looking for something new and different did take time, but the journey was part of the fun. I started at Delish bakery and café in Forrest Hill where I found a [...]
The Christmas cakes I never made
December 6, 2010 by admin
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I was honestly going to make a Christmas cake this year, but I was diverted from my mission by a cake which arrived at work for us to sample mid-week. It was full of fruit which had been soaked in alcohol for months so it tasted just like a Christmas cake should .The dried fruits [...]
Julie Le Clerc’s new cookbook: Made By Hand
December 2, 2010 by admin
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Thanks to her clever op shopping Julie Le Clerc’s Made by Hand is a very stylish book to look at. Over the years she has collected lots of charming old table ware, kitchen utensils, pre loved tablecloths and napkins and has used them to great effect in her food styling. But in my mind there [...]