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Easy, delicious, healthy(ish) recipes that won't own your budget.
#37157 in All , #528 in Food & Drink

Simple seared fennel & pumpkin salad

The prices of fennel bulbs in Sydney almost makes me wonder if they are secretly a staple food in Australia. It took me a while to reach for one though, because normally I only consider fennel bulb e...

5 days ago

Honey caramelised onions & chevre sammy

At the end of any particularly busy week, all I want is simple home made comfort food. I’d be lying if I said this sandwich, made of oat & honey bread I made from scratch, with home-caramel...

17 may 12

Taste magazine feature

This little blog of mine was lucky enough to be featured in this month’s Taste magazine (a New Zealand food mag, for those reading from outside New Zealand) :) It was a little poignant reading ...

12 may 12

Clean out your nutella jar, and have your hazelnut hot chocolate too

Having discovered that house hunting in Sydney is as soul-crushing as most people say it is,* Will and I both needed some serious comfort food, so we’ve taken to throwing back hot chocolates li...

06 may 12

Expanding the horizons of roast veges

In this case, with a simple butter toasted cumin tomato sauce (although other spice-unrelated ideas are presented under the photo). To understand the origins of this simple step forward: I have a har...

01 may 12

Smoked eel scramble

Last year I was lucky enough to find myself helping to judge the Taste Farmers’ Markets NZ Awards. I’ve heard that this year, one very lucky voter for their favourite market will also be ...

25 apr 12

Unbelievably easy honey & vanilla “ice cream”

I call this “ice cream” because this is so rich that you’d never want to eat a whole bowlful of this (not even the cupful pictured…but the cup was too pretty with the roses th...

17 apr 12

Missing New Zealand’s greenshell mussels…

New Zealand’s green shell mussels are pretty wonderful – delicious and super versatile, cheap, good for your tastebuds and the rest of you too. Do they have them in Sydney? Because that&#...

12 apr 12

Fruity not-cross buns

As much as I love fruity spiced breads, the thought of attempting to make some has always been a bit scary. This is coming from someone who makes their own bread, pretty much exclusively (thanks to t...

07 apr 12

Healthier scones for lazy days

Let’s get one thing straight: these are not your usual crumbly, light-as-air scones, full of white fluffiness. Those are my favourite, but what’s life without a little diversity? These ar...

01 apr 12

Fizzy cake

If you’d like a fairly traditional buttery go-to cake, that stays soft and moist the next day, is springy but also dense and rich, and is pretty adaptable…this is the cake. I opted for a ...

25 mar 12

How to make a weekday morning feel like Sunday morning: applesauce pancakes

Before you laugh incredulously about the possibility of a healthy, hot, pancake breakfast during the week…think again! In my attempt to use as much applesauce as is humanly possible (and having...

19 mar 12

Why Canterbury foodies will

Apologies about the scarcity of recipes!* Fortunately there are some amazing foodie-friendly events happening this month. This weekend has been dubbed “The World’s Friendliest WeekendR...

13 mar 12

Save our skins – deliciously and easily

Peeling is not fun, but I acknowledge that sometimes people don’t like the taste or texture of skins. However, there are some compromises you can make that will ensure your tastebuds are happy,...

26 feb 12

Stuffed marrow goes vego

Being given the fourth marrow in a short space of time, they were not only beginning to transform from blessing to curse, but I was getting a bit sick of eating them stir fried (which I do not recomm...

18 feb 12

Toffee applesauce on applesauce scones

After making the caramelly banana filling for my banoffee pie, I had a brainwave as I pureed my latest batch of applesauce*. Basically, you melt some sugar, whisk in butter like crazy, and while the ...

14 feb 12

Smoky brie & cherry tomato focaccia, in lieu of summer

As Mika mentioned at Milliemirepoix, New Zealand summer so far has been a bit disappointing. Without warm weather, I can’t justify enough picnicking to keep the baking, bite-sized-foods-maker i...

11 feb 12

Rhubarb juice, sans blending or squeezing

Is it just me, or is blending way too much effort for juice? As great as fresh juice is, if I need to get out any appliances my eyes glaze over a little. So when I spotted this recipe on Scandi Foodi...

31 jan 12

Mixing up old favourites

As exciting as newness may be, even fickle foodies like me need to revisit old favourites on occasion. Here are three recent tweaks of old favourites on the blog… Using some beautiful heirloom ...

26 jan 12

Chocolate & peanuts, unite!

Weirdly, I recently began to crave peanut butter, something which I had long ago stashed in the “childhood overload” compartment of my brain. This salted chocolate peanut butter from The ...

22 jan 12

So healthy you’ll *want* to know what are in these brownies – both of them!

Brownies are not really what I dub as “summer” food, but when my friend Sarah linked me to these zucchini brownies, well…what’s more summer than finding an ingenious baking re...

16 jan 12

Homey delights and summery herb yogurt dressing

There’s nothing like seven weeks away to make you appreciate home! While I had a truly fantastic time filling up on delicious foreign specialties, the whole experience also highlighted what mak...

11 jan 12

Travel favourites – Sydney

If you’re not a big city fan like me, food is Sydney’s biggest redeeming feature. However, in some ways it’s not hugely worth listing favourite places, because Sydney’s so huge it’s...

06 jan 12

Travel favourites – Wuhan

Is it okay to be slightly embarrassed about the city you are born in? Wuhan, my birthpace and the capital city of Hubei, China, is also the capital of Arguing. Loudly. It’s not uncommon for wom...

04 jan 12

Travel favourites – Brisbane

I’ve scaled the great Firewall of China (since wordpress is lamely blocked here) to bring you a few highlights from the journey so far. I used to live in Brisbane so most of my time was spent w...

23 nov 11

Treats before taking off

Had a coffee & nibble with Gina & Steph at Med Foods, whose cafe has re-opened! News for foodies in and of itself, especially if you’re in Canterbury. I was such a mess that I forgot my...

12 nov 11

Spring Recipe Competition Winners

I got to say thank you to three of the winners this week! Gina and Bron met me at the Christchurch Farmers Market last Saturday, where I handed them their box/bag of vouchers and goodies. Image court...

06 nov 11

Thyme and shallot potato stacks and the verge of summer…spring…

Can someone enlighten me – is it just in Christchurch that Spring is really only a flowery extension of winter? Only now (on the verge of summer) is it feeling spring-like enough to even consid...

06 nov 11

Riccarton house bistro & garden bar opening night!

PS. Pic above is not of me, just hapless happy party goers :D I was lucky enough to be invited to the post-quake summer re-launch of Riccarton House Bistro, set in the stunning surrounds of Deans Bus...

29 oct 11

Lynette’s baking sheet giveaway

You know those kitchen items that make cooking fun, rather than a chore? For the lucky people out there with KitchenAid mixers and Le Creuset pans, you’ll know what I mean. However, there are m...

28 oct 11

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