There’s nothing like Australia! This month’s travel section is full of sights and tastes from destinations all around Australia, after all ‘there’s nothing like Australia’. There’s also some great prizes up for grabs. Kiwis love holidaying in Australia more than … Read more
Virgil Evetts I love popcorn (who doesn’t), and it’s one of those things I’d been thought about growing for years. How hard could it be after all? I couldn’t really see much point in growing the ordinary supermarket version though- … Read more
Virgil Evetts Along with cooler, clearer days and nights, autumn also brings with it the year’s greatest avalanche of produce. Eagerly anticipated fruit of every kind overwhelms our appetites and overflows our fruit bowls. But it doesn’t last long. Soon … Read more
Virgil Evetts I’ve been chasing chocolate sauce for nigh-on 25 years now. A sauce so rich, sticky and perfectly unctuous that it’s haunted me all these years. At last, I think it’s with my grasp. Back when I was … Read more
Virgil Evetts We have a back-to-front way of looking at our seafood these days: salmon – flavoursome, farmed and fairly priced – is still viewed as a luxury product, while wild-caught snapper remains the stuff of ho-hum ( if extravagantly … Read more
Virgil Evetts This summer, as always my zucchini plants have been producing more fruit than any of us (including the chickens) can handle. I love zucchini, either raw in salads, scorched over the bbq or tossed into curries and soups. … Read more
Virgil Evetts Legend has it that Marco Polo brought the first ice cream recipe back to Europe after his lengthy jaunt on the far side of the great wall, but he needn’t have bothered, because it was already there
Virgil Evetts With the summer food garden now on the downward slide towards autumn, I’m starting to assess my hits and misses in the tomato patch. On the whole it’s been a good growing season. Lots of sun, lots of … Read more
Virgil Evetts I’m always a bit iffy about singing the praises of imported produce, especially when it’s something we could be growing locally. But some things are just too good to forsake on principle. Californian blood oranges are once again … Read more
We borrowed a Chilean cookbook from the library recently and it had some intriguing recipes. There was Huevos falsos (false eggs as a dessert). We thought the kids would love that – will write about those in a later blog. … Read more
Ray Street When you think of chillies, you usually think of a curry. But, believe it or not, chillies did not originate in India. Nor did they originate in Asia. Chillies came from the New World of Central and South … Read more
