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.
In love with tarragon
After I wrote the post about herbs and spices in the Waikato, my husband Matthew immediately said, “but what about tarragon?” Tarragon is his favourite herb. He means French tarragon of course. See further down this post for more about the different kinds of tarragon....
In love with tarragon
After I wrote the post about herbs and spices in the Waikato, my husband Matthew immediately said, “but what about tarragon?” Tarragon is his favourite herb. He means French tarragon of course. See further down this post for more about the different kinds of tarragon....
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Writing about eating
A handful of raspberries
Today I picked a handful of raspberries to have with my breakfast. This gives me an amazing feeling of wellbeing. I haven’t always had raspberries in my life. I spent my childhood in Papua New Guinea, where we had wonderful tropical fruits galore: fresh pawpaw,...
Perfect strawberries
In my search for the perfect strawberry, I went to talk to strawberry growers Grant and Heather Kane, at their farm south of Cambridge. Kane’s strawberries have a great word-of-mouth reputation. They are reliably excellent in quality and they are often sold out at the...
Buried treasure
Just before the first new potato harvest, I paid a visit to Richard and Judy Cato, whose superb potatoes have been a highlight of the local farmers’ markets. We walked out into one of Richard’s potato fields. They could do with some rain, he said. This has been a very...