Cookbook Review: Chop Chop

Chop Chop – Brett McGregor //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Asian food is my nemesis so I am glad for all the help I can get when it comes to preparing delicious meals with an oriental flair.  Curries and Thai food I have a handle on but anything else bewilders me.  I can’t tell if the recipe is Malaysian, …

Bushwalker Cookies with Apple (Dairy-free)

When I originally began this blog it was my intention to take regular recipes and see how I could ramp them up with flavours of apple.  I have done a fair bit of adding apple to recipes but have failed to add them to my blog before the bottomless-pit-teenagers manage to remove all trace of …

Limited Edition: Granny Smith Apple Juice

I love love love single variety apple juice.  I imagine (pretend) as I am drinking it that I can taste the individual nuances of apple flavours. Well, there is no pretending with this Granny Smith apple juice.  The inside of my cheeks water and pucker just like they do when I eat a Granny Smith …

Berry Berry Muesli

This berry muesli is inspired by a particular brand of muesli that my teenagers inhale at the rate of (almost) a box per day.  As I make home-made muesli regularly, I checked out the ingredients to figure out why they liked this muesli more than my other muesli mixes.  I believe it is the absence …

Strawberry Syrup

While preparing my regular recipe for our local paper The Gisborne Herald, I went into the local shops I frequent to make sure all the ingredients were still available.  A while ago I had purchased a large bottle of Giffard Strawberry Syrup and had plans to add the Peach Syrup to my pantry.  However, as …

Apple Crumble Chocolate

We are firmly in the Whittakers camp when it comes to chocolate, not only because it tastes better but also because it is New Zealand made.  However occasionally Cadbury brings out a limited edition flavour that makes me jump ship for a short time.

Bushwalker Cookies (Dairy-Free)

Homemade cookies or biscuits as we call them here in New Zealand (not to be confused with American biscuits which we call scones) are a welcome sight in our baking “tins”.  I say “tins” as baking containers doesn’t conjure up the same image but, although I have three or four actual tins, I store baking …

Apples we are eating: Rockit

Snooping around the crates of apples in the Supermarket to find something inspiring my eye passed over a stack of tubes with teeny-tiny apples in them.  I have seen these apple tubes in the past but never really paid much attention.  I assumed they were little apples of some sort – perhaps gala’s or something …

Cookbook Review: Melie’s Kitchen

Melie’s Kitchen by Amelia Ferrier (Penguin Random House New Zealand) I have a fair collection of cook books both new and old.  My favourite cook books are anything with baking or preserving (jams and jellies and such like).  Some books I have never made anything from, although I want to try three or four of …

Fusilli with Tomato & Chorizo Sauce

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Adding Spanish Chorizo & Mexican Jalapenos to a tomato base is definitely not authentic Italian but it does make a quick, easy and super tasty week night meal.  Chorizo is a great addition as only a little is required to pack a huge flavour punch.  I have used cured chorizo here, as opposed to …