Welcome to the
Waikato
Food Basket
This is a blog that celebrates the delicious abundance of the Waikato region.
Eat your Greens
I’ve always loved green salads. My definition of an abundant life includes a garden with an apple tree, a lemon tree – and salad greens and herbs. My absolute essential greens are flat-leaf parsley, curly endive and land cress.
Festive fizz
Seven gorgeous alcohol-free summer drinks. This summer, try making some of these delicious and interesting beverages. Most ready-made drinks (healthy and otherwise) are very sweet. When you make them yourself you'll know exactly how much sugar you’re consuming. And...
Festive fizz
Seven gorgeous alcohol-free summer drinks. This summer, try making some of these delicious and interesting beverages. Most ready-made drinks (healthy and otherwise) are very sweet. When you make them yourself you'll know exactly how much sugar you’re consuming. And...
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Writing about eating
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
We’re lucky in the Waikato - all kinds of herbs grow year-round in this region. This is a post about some of my favourite fresh herbs and what I do with them. It was inspired by a recent meeting of Hamilton Organic Gardeners. We met in Wendy's home garden, where she...
The art of bitter greens
Curly endive is the one salad green that grows in my garden all year round. It's my essential salad green. Right now the plants are going to seed. They have shot up into tall spikes with small purple flowers. But there are still frilly green leaves for the taking,...
Kawhia Kai Festival
The Kawhia Kai Festival is an annual food event celebrating Maori food and culture. It takes place at the remote, normally quiet settlement of Kawhia on Waitangi weekend, and this year I went for the first time. It's one of the Waikato’s most famous food festivals....