Feijoa smoothies: Health in a Glass
Lucky us! Our neighbours are collecting bucketfuls of feijoas at present and they keep giving us bags of them. Fijoas are so aromatic and juicy when they have just fallen off the trees and been freshly harvested. The flavour is somewhere between guava and pineapple with a trace of lemon. Apart from cutting them in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Te Mahi Kai: The Language of food
The theme for Maori Language week this year is Te Mahi Kai: The Language of Food. Activities all over New Zealand will give people a chance to get their tongues around some Maori Language, and their teeth into some good kai. It should be a great week. Since Maori Language Week began in 1975 Kiwis [...]
Pumpkin soup and cheese rolls from the Mainland
The best pumpkin soup I have ever tasted arrived in my mailbox recently, from my sister Margreet. It comes from Omakau; near the Otago Central Rail Trail.To make it you need a whole pumpkin. You simply make a few cuts into it with a knife to make sure it doesn’t explode, and then cook it [...]
Bella Pacific lime tart
July 2, 2010 by admin
Filed under Recipes, Uncategorized
The recipe has kindly been provided by Tracey Barton and Alison Dobson-Bonney, from The Brown Bag Lunch Company Bella Pacific Lime Tart Ingredients Base 200g unsalted butter, softened 250g (2cups) plain all purpose flour 30g (1/4cup) icing sugar 1 egg lightly beaten Filling 6 eggs 375g (11/2cups) caster sugar 60g (1/2cup) plain flour 125ml (1/2cup) [...]
Celebrating Matariki
Its Matariki time again, the Maori New Year Festival, A great opportunity for all New Zealanders to join in and celebrate. And what better way to do so then by gathering up the whanau for some special kai? This weekend, as winter chills set in, we’re planning a relaxed family evening meal around the fire. [...]
Sausages and football: A perfect match
As you enter the Westmere Butchery you can’t fail to notice the large Arsenal Football Club poster on the wall behind the counter. It’s obvious that there’s more to life than making the perfect banger for these guys. There’s some ardent supporters here and they are keen to let you know it. The Westmere Butchery [...]
Vegan Treats: Banana Loaf Bread and Macaroons.
The other day I had a vegan around for afternoon tea. But I have to be honest. The vegan banana bread I made for him was a soggy and oily disaster! As vegans do, he graciously ate what was set in front of him, and thanked me profusely for making a cake especially for him, [...]
Feijoas: The Cinderella Story
Who would have ever thought that the feijoa, that humble little green fruit found in kiwi back yards, would be transformed into a gourmet export fruit? But it has happened. The Feijoa is winging its way from New Zealand into Australian and American markets, not in a pumpkin coach, but by air. And come to [...]