Sydney Comfort Food

It was just our luck to visit Sydney last weekend on one of the coldest May mornings for decades. So chilled to the bone we went on the hunt that evening for food that was soothing and warm. Pasteur, a cheap little Vietnamese restaurant on George St caught our eye. With its lino floor, plastic [...]

Baking for Fair Trade Fortnight

I’ve just made a batch of All Good Fair Trade banana and green ginger muffins. The recipe came fom The Good Life Café and Market in Beckenham, Christchurch. Due to earthquake damage it is currently closed .Here’s hoping they’ll soon be up and running again. As they said: “These are our best selling muffins made [...]

The New Zealand Pressure Cooker Cookbook by Lisa Loveday

Pressure cookers are right back in fashion. But luckily they are no longer the scary hissing monsters that were around in the seventies which were prone to spurt soup all over the ceiling. The new generation Pressure Cookers have several safety features that will release the pressure if it builds up too high, so no [...]