A bottle of Veuve Cliquot rescued from a shipwreck in the Baltic sea has sold at auction for a record price of 30,000 Euros! The champagne which has laid in the shipwreck for 190 years was apparently in perfect condition due to … Read more
Hi there, While we may have been lulled into thinking we were having a mild winter, it has quickly changed with snow and storms buffeting the country – just in time for school holiday skiing. Helen Jackson’s Kitchen has been … Read more
Helen Jackson Having spent an adult life time of avoiding resorts in favour of self catering style accommodation, a recent trip to Club Med at Cherating Beach, Malaysia, has me reconsidering my stance.
Virgil Evetts A few years ago I wrote an article about my favourite kitchen gadgets and appliances .And while my ‘best of’ list remains pretty much unchanged, its counterpart of useless items and ill- conceived follies grows ever longer.
Virgil Evetts Some of you might recall me mentioning I was putting down a trial batch of mead earlier this year, in an effort to use up some of my rather daunting honey harvest. Well, after several months of something approaching … Read more
Now it’s not universally true that what every woman needs is a good man but I’ve met very few who will pass up the opportunity of a bit of quality time with a gingerbread man. Especially not my gingerbread men. … Read more
Ray Street Just what are the ingredients that go into a curry? This is one of these questions that have so many answers that it is difficult to know where to begin. It’s like asking what the most popular words … Read more
Virgil Evetts My daughter Olive (nine months) has now decided that Madre and Padre’s food is vastly more appealing than her own. If she’s up and about at meals times she quickly crawls over to the table and installs herself at our feet … Read more
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Virgil Evetts As an impossibly long Indian summer finally retreats, it’s starting to feel a bit like winter ‘round these parts – in that sodden, clammy Auckland way. As we near the equinox the sun seems to only skim the … Read more
Virgil Evetts And so we bid adieu to another season of the local rendition of Masterchef. It’s done and dusted and there’s nothing much left to say. Hell, I barely even watched the show this time around. Didn’t need to … Read more
