NEWS ARTICLES
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Everlasting feast
Lauraine Jacobs chats to Catherine Smith about her new book and shares a recipe you might like to get the kids on to these holidays It is hard to think of a person in today’s tiny food writing...
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Catherine Smith
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How to: roast a buttercup
By roasting buttercups cut in half, face down, they steam as they roast, adding a depth to their flavour. The skins are entirely edible too. Wipe clean and cut in half down the middle. Scoop out...
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Warren Elwin
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How to: hollandaise sauce
Hollandaise sauce At first glance, making hollandaise sauce can look tricky but it is completely achievable if you follow a few tips. Like mayonnaise, hollandaise is an emulsion and requires the...
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Celia Hay
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A nutritional powerhouse - Dr Libby on eggs
Eggs are a dietary mainstay — in fact I’m sure many of you relate to the saying: “If there is an egg in the house there is a meal in the house.” Eggs are a source of complete protein meaning they...
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Dr Libby
The farm butchery
A Warkworth butcher supplies Catherine Smith with meat the way nature intended. Bev Trowbridge is about as far from the ad-man cliche — dated, but still on our telly — of a Kiwi farmer as you can...
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How to: poach an egg
Poaching an egg is an important art. If my children or I have a busy day planned, I will always cook for breakfast, two poached eggs on Vogel’s bread, often served with bacon. This breakfast gets...
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Know your onions
Despite the changing market, Balle Bros are keeping a family tradition alive writes Rebecca Blithe.Arriving at Te Kauwhata, it’s a little like a scene from Kiwi film Mt Zion, as men follow the rows...
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The Lucky Taco
Thanks to Sarah and Otis Frizzell, Aucklanders are about be served eye-rollingly good tacos. We’ve asked them to share their adventure. The Lucky Taco seed was planted during a visit to California...
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How to: make icecream
The base of many icecreams is creme anglaise or English custard cream, which appears so often as a sauce on desserts. There are many recipes for this with varying combinations of milk and cream....
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How to: make watermelon sorbet
Summer’s the time for fruit-based icecreams and sorbets and I think many of us have forgotten that it is possible to make them without the technology of fancy icecream machines. You can achieve...
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