My ( Formerly) Secret Shame

My ( Formerly) Secret Shame

Virgil Evetts As much as I might convince myself that I have sophisticated, urbane tastes, embarrassing, childish regression keeps bubbling to the surface. Perhaps I should explain…  I just can’t help it, I really can’t but I’ve developed a serious … Read more »

Mere Macaroni

Mere Macaroni

Virgil Evetts For one reason or another- but mostly because of the criminally high prices of dairy in recent years, good old macaroni-cheese- that most kiwi-fied of dishes had completely dropped off my cooking radar. In fact I’d pretty much … Read more »

Churros up

Churros up

Virgil Evetts I am so in love with Churros right now. As promised in my posting on cannolli, I set about making them on the weekend, and I gotta say- OH MY GOD. I used the recipe from the excellent … Read more »

Chocolate guilt

Chocolate guilt

Virgil Evetts When you start to unravel the ethics of eating, it rapidly becomes impossible to exist with a clean conscience. Take chocolate for example – amazing stuff, I love it to bits. But the closer you look, the more … Read more »

Can I Cannoli?

Can I Cannoli?

Virgil Evetts I’m a bit lily-livered when it comes to deep-frying. I used to own a bench-top deep fryer, which makes the process pretty fool [ergo flame] proof, but I got sick of cleaning the perpetually greasy thing and hated … Read more »

Lemon-licious

Lemon-licious

Virgil Evetts It’s true that the food garden is a mostly lifeless, dreary, place in winter, but a little sunshine can be found in the form of citrus. While I sometime curse the lack of local limes and their kin … Read more »

Closer, my little dumpling

Closer, my little dumpling

Virgil Evetts Thanks to a weekend of truly foul Auckland weather, involving all day fog on Saturday followed by an all day deluge on Sunday, I had little to do but think about food. Not that the weather really changes … Read more »

Curry favour

Curry favour

Virgil Evetts Nothing quite so disagreeable as durian or vote splitting as the great yeast spread debate for this posting. Just a quick and easy meal I threw together the other night and rather enjoyed. I thought you might too. … Read more »

Fresh Durian- at last!!!

Fresh Durian- at last!!!

Virgil Evetts Anyone with a taste for the truly exotic should head down to their nearest Asian fruiterer. Hot on the heel of my article last week about tropical fruit, the very first [ever] shipment of whole fresh durian has … Read more »

Marmite Vs Vegemite

Marmite Vs Vegemite

Virgil Evetts The news that Kraft are launching a new smoother and as yet unnamed version of Vegemite reminded me more than a little of the Coca Cola corporation’s ill fated and patently ill advised New Coke embarrassment of the … Read more »

Would you like sighs with your order?

Would you like sighs with your order?

Virgil Evetts Despite my grumblings about the very average level of service found in the local hospitality industry, I have had some truly excellent service here, a lot that was simply poor, but only a very slim minority that was really … Read more »