Making a Curry
While curries are synonymous with hot climates and it is also easier to find the required fresh ingredients in summer, their aromatic spiciness is I think particularly warming and welcoming on a cold winters night.
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French Food Trivia Quiz
In celebration of Bastille Day this week’s quiz is on French Cuisine.
Choosing the right Flour
Choices are of course great but increasingly we are confronted with so many product choices that a simple trip to the supermarket can be highly confusing.
Independence Day Food Trivia Quiz
Try our 4th July food trivia quiz. If anything like me there will be lots of guess work involved but hope you find it fun anyway!
Know Your Herbs Quiz
How well do you know the herbs that grow around us and not just for culinary uses either? Test your herb knowledge with out fun quiz.
Roast Chicken Dinner – The Meal Man Does Best
In this busy life where both parents often work full time, there are roles in the home that seemed to have stayed the same. A recent survey of NZ women shows that in most Kiwi homes it is the … Read more
How to Make the Perfect Pizza
Friday is usually pizza night at our place, hence I am writing this on a Friday when pizza is on my mind. The dough is mixed mid afternoon (while I enjoy making it by hand it is usually my cake … Read more
Fruit and Vegetable Trivia Quiz
Test your food and vegetable knowledge with our quick quiz. Think you know which food has the most vitamin C? See if you are right. Take Our Quiz!
Spice Trivia Quiz
This week’s quiz is all about spices, the dried berries, roots and bark of plants that are used to flavour food.
Everlasting Feast
So much more than a cookbook, Lauraine Jacobs Everlasting Feast is her story but also our story of food through the years in NZ. Remember back to spiders as children, homemade trifle and really good bacon and egg pie? Lauraine’s … Read more
ANZAC and More Food Trivia Quiz
A mixture of Australian and New Zealand food trivia in this quiz with a little of ANZAC in there as well. Test your knowledge!
How to Make Great Chocolate Chip Biscuits or Cookies
Sally Cameron A chocolate chippie biscuit is a crunchy snack sized baked good, with sweetened chocolate morsels and the occasional nut or dried fruit for texture. It is guaranteed they will make an appearance in almost everyone’s biscuit tin at … Read more
Experience Norfolk Island
The close proximity of Norfolk Island to New Zealand makes it an ideal travel destination, but how much do most of us know about this isle in the Pacific? If I am to be honest, not much, but all this … Read more
How to Make Perfect Hot Cross Buns
There is something very satisfying in baking with yeast and at this time of year hot cross buns are top of the list. The fruity, spicy, yeasty smell of dough rising and buns baking is well worth the time it … Read more
