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Flaming Pudding and Gorse Flowers
A steamed pudding is an easy comfort food idea for a family winter dinner. Edible flowers…
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Winter Watercress
Jeannie’s Kitchen is back! It’s been a long wait between posts – 8 years in fact.…
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Big Flavour: slow roasted tomato sauce
This sauce makes a wonderful base for pizza , great as a pasta sauce or…
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Springerle Biscuits – a Christmas tradition
Merry Christmas from Fat Weka Farm. Christmas is full of family food traditions, whether that tradition…
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Red currants – the jewels of summer
Red currants are usually a Christmas time treat with their most appropriate Santa Claus colour but…
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Christmas Apricots
At the Auckland Farro Fresh Food store tasting sessions of Augustines of Central preserved apricot and quince products…
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Potato & Watercress Salad
Lexie came with Fat Weka Farm and we just wouldn’t be without her. We are not…
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Savoury French Toast
Spring is almost here at Fat Weka Farm…but not quite. The daffodils are starting to make…
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Cheese and Parsley Scones on MIDWINTER’S Day
I have become an expert scone maker. “Practice makes perfect” is certainly true when it comes…
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Mom’s crescent Christmas cookies
These biscuits/cookies are a nutty shortbread rolled in icing sugar and are a divine texture and…
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Cooking and Glazing a Ham
Christmas came in the first week of November at our house when my son Gus asked…
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Asparagus is best fresh and simply prepared
Asparagus is a truly seasonal treat and this year we got the opportunity to feast on…
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Watercress and Eggs
Watercress and eggs are natural partners on the plate and with spring comes lots of fresh…
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Gathering nettles with rubber gloves
Impress your friends with a nettle and parsley salsa verde or pesto. It’s a thick green…
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Red Slaw with Tamarillo Mayo
Its rich ruby colour, tartness and strength of flavour makes tamarillo an ideal winter fruit. Its…
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Green Shakshuka – dinner cooked on the wood burner
August has delivered winter to the south, and I’m discovering treasures that weren’t obvious in the…
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The perfect Hawthorn jelly
what a wonderful tree the Hawthorn is! It’s thorny habit keeps stock inside the paddock, provides…
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Apricot tastings and potato curry
While visiting Auckland to spend time with my grandson Beau, I took the opportunity to promote…
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Chickweed salad, pesto and gardeners first aid
Chickweed Stellaria media is a highly nutritious plant popular in Victorian times with the leisure class for use…
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An autumn salad from the garden
Since daylight saving has finished, suddenly the nights in the south seem to be colder and…
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Slow cooked tomatoes and generous gardeners
My sister Kerry is my Little Red Riding Hood often arriving with a basket of produce…
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Gaucho Sauce (Chimichurri – Herby Salsa)
It’s been months since I last wrote a posting…I’ve been just too busy with our change…
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Cooking Class at Ponsonby School
“No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” ― Julia Child When I offered…
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Upcycled Peanut Chocolate Biscuits
Chocolate peanut biscuits from the Edmonds cookbook were the first biscuits I ever made. We used…
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Whangarei Growers Market and New Zealand spinach
Whangarei Heads is always a delight to visit, so much so that we usually don’t want…
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Almond Pudding Cake for Augustines Apricots
I’ve been experimenting with my favourite pudding cake recipe to showcase Augustines of Central preserved apricots.…
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Winter Nelis Pears with Clover Honey
What is it with pears? Bite into a pear from the tree and its like a…
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Roasted olives with garlic, rosemary and orange
With Christmas just a couple of months away its time for me to think about what…
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The Traditional English Muffin..or is it American?
Traditional English muffins are small yeast breads; flattish circles with a gritty surface, torn apart rather…
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A pick and mix salad made in the garden
On a warm spring day, there is nothing better than a simple salad for lunch that…
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