Cheese at its Best
The Local Girls – Cheese At it’s Best Michal Haines I have had the honour for the last four years of judging for the annual Cuisine Champions of Cheese Awards and this year I have been asked back to sit … Read more
Archives for search_indexed
Fend for yourself in the kitchen!
Fend for yourself: the art of cooking selfishly Virgil Evetts. Every so often, if I lack inspiration, if I’m feeling tired and world weary ,or I just can’t be bothered, I send out a text to the rest of the … Read more
Too Hot to Cook
Too Hot to Cook Michal Haines I am in awe of those people whose adoration for the heat of the summer months allows them to roast away in the sunshine hour after hour. Sure we are told that we are … Read more
It’s not about love……Virgil
It’s not about love: Ignoring Valentine ‘s Day and surviving the summer kitchen Virgil Evetts I suppose I could have jumped on the commercial bandwagon this week and thrown together some Valentine-inspired recipes for lovers or food for a-wooing, … Read more
Iced Milks….
Iced Milks…. Virgil Evetts I’ve had a lifelong love affair with iced coffee. My mother had a scandalously permissive attitude towards her children and grown up beverages- tea, coffee whatever pleased us. I think she was just glad we weren’t … Read more
Preserving Tomatoes
Tomato Glut-ton – Michal Haines Summer has all the joys of easy gardening. No cold rains, frosts and lack of sunlight to worry about. Just long clear, glorious days to help process all those wonderful natural sugars to make for … Read more
Eating Otago
Eating Otago – Virgil Evetts Like many New Zealanders, I’m better travelled internationally than within my own country. It just seems so much easier to fly to Queensland than Queenstown. We’re funny like that in New Zealand. Maybe it’s our … Read more
Summer Salad Recipes
One of the wonderful things about summer cooking is that meals can be decided at the last minute and quickly cooked or just assembled. I am a big fan of salads, I love contrast in food and with salads it … Read more
Cooking Geoduck with Virgil
Mollusc envy Virgil Evetts Three weeks off work has allowed me to spend many a languid day in my sunny little garden, idly plucking plums and boysenberries, reading a good deal of trashy fiction, eating mountains of very good ( … Read more
Panetonne- Baked Bliss.
Virgil Evetts I’m not a regular kneader. For the most part I find the rules and regulations of baking altogether too stuffy. I really don’t like being told what to do in the kitchen and baking recipes always read like … Read more
The Food that Saved Christmas
My love of Christmas is far from logical. I don’t do God nor the well meaning ramblings of his son, yet I still get all warm and fuzzy come mid December. Such is the power of nostalgia I guess. … Read more
Scary Foods
Loathsome, nasty things… Virgil Evetts Fear is a funny thing. As clever little bi-peds, we usually manage to override the uber- anxious mother that is our instincts, but from time to time something just scares the be-jesus out of us … Read more
All about the Sauce…
Pimp my plate – Virgil Evetts It’s all about the sauce, don’t you think? Well it is for me. Although I’m mostly a dry food person, I really like a little bit on the side, so to speak, just to … Read more
Edible Christmas Gift Ideas
The sesason of gift giving is almost upon us and now is exactly the right time to start thinking of gifts from the kitchen that are made with thought and care and often more meaningful than more commercial choices. Over … Read more
