Julie Le Clerc’s new cookbook: Made By Hand

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 [...]

Slow cookers: How to use them

While my kids may be able to recall a few other culinary disasters, tasteless and watery crock-pot meals won’t be one of their bad childhood memories. I was around in the 70s when crock-pots were first invented, but I never owned one as I belonged to a pottery co-operative and all my stews were baked [...]

Minced: Inspirational recipes for every day – cookbook review

Minced – Inspirational recipes for every day is a new Kiwi cook book in which mince of one kind or another is the major ingredient in over 100 recipes. The authors, Sue Hamilton and Dana Alexander, don’t aspire to be MasterChefs who prepare amazing dishes that require a long list of ingredients and are tricky [...]

Move over Grandma: It’s my turn to cook!

href=”http://www.toothpix.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/baked-beans-and-sausages.jpg-2.jpg”>A can of baked beans will soon be history at our house! My 7-year-old grand daughter is well on the way to mastering the art of cooking baked beans and sausages from scratch and they’re healthier and nicer that way. She had been begging me to teach her how to cook for ages. Must have [...]

Cup Cake Heaven

I’ve just been reading a new recipe book called Cupcake Heaven. It’s crammed full of hundreds of cupcakes. No mere mortal could ever hope to make all of them! Amazing how something so simple, that’s basically nothing but flour, sugar, butter and eggs can be dressed up in so many different ways. There are cupcakes [...]

Eat Smart: The Kiwi Family Cookbook

Running out of ideas what to do with the kids in the holidays? They would enjoy trying their hand at cooking some of the recipes from Eat Smart: The Kiwi Family Cookbook. It has just been released by the Cancer Society. Although only some of the recipes are marked as kid friendly most of the [...]

BOOK REVIEW: Never Ending Summer by Julie Biuso

For the last three weekends we have invited friends over for a barbecue but each time the skies were grey and it was drizzling so we had to eat inside. Where can summer be hiding? Oh well, as the weather is beyond our control we might as well get over it! And if it keeps [...]

BOOK REVIEW: Real Fresh Food: Healthy Meals for Busy People

A couple of weeks ago, determined to put some balance back into my life, I acquired a new cookery book and a bicycle. It’s been a bit of a wobbly start so far but I am confident I’m on the way to a somewhat healthier lifestyle. Now like most people I know in my head [...]

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