It’s a great time of year for avocados. Some of my friends are feasting on boxes of avocados from the Bay of Plenty. Others have trees laden with big green fruit. Avocados thrive in many parts of the Waikato, even though our climate is generally too cold for...
This is the story behind my new book, Meet your greens: Enliven your salads with herbal energetics. It’s about how to make amazing salads, but it’s also about a lot more than that. Meet Your Greens comes out of my lifelong interest in the different flavours of salad...
This is a post about where to buy local food in the Waikato during the national Covid Level 4 lockdown. The farmers’ markets have been closed because they are not considered essential to the food chain. I’ve written this post because I’m keen to ensure people who want...
When times are stressful, that’s exactly when we need to be eating well. Everyone will have different ideas of what comfort food means. Whatever this is, I hope you’re able to eat some of the food that brings you home to yourself and helps you feel grounded. Here are...
I think eggplants are the most elegant of all vegetables. These beautiful shiny purple vegetables/fruit, which are also often called aubergines, star in some of my favourite recipes. Eggplants are abundant in local farmer’s markets at the end of a long hot Waikato...
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