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  • Mom’s crescent Christmas cookies

    Mom’s crescent Christmas cookies

    These biscuits/cookies are a nutty shortbread rolled in icing sugar and are a divine texture and flavour – perfect to enjoy over Christmas or to give as a gift. My friend Lea used to… read more

  • Cooking and Glazing a Ham

    Cooking and Glazing a Ham

    Christmas came in the first week of November at our house when my son Gus asked that I cook a ham and try out a glaze using his Augustines of Central quince paste.  We… read more

  • Asparagus is best fresh and simply prepared

    Asparagus is best fresh and simply prepared

    Asparagus is a truly seasonal treat and this year we got the opportunity to feast on asparagus when my friend Kate called by with a bag of spears from Ardross farm. As it was… read more

  • Watercress and Eggs

    Watercress and Eggs

    Watercress and eggs are natural partners on the plate and with spring comes lots of fresh watercress and the first eggs from our hens. Vitamins make watercress a super food. A watercress omelette makes… read more

  • Gathering nettles with rubber gloves

    Gathering nettles with rubber gloves

    Impress your friends with a nettle and parsley salsa verde or pesto.  It’s a thick green sauce or paste that you can use in a number of ways.  Harvesting nettles can be a stinging… read more

  • Red Slaw with Tamarillo Mayo

    Red Slaw with Tamarillo Mayo

    Its rich ruby colour, tartness and strength of flavour makes tamarillo an ideal winter fruit. Its peak production is over the winter months of June/July/August. But did you know that the tamarillo was a… read more

  • Green Shakshuka – dinner cooked on the wood burner

    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 summer when we moved to this property.  Winter flowers are a precious occupant of any garden and what… read more

  • The perfect Hawthorn jelly

    The perfect Hawthorn jelly

    what a wonderful tree the Hawthorn is! It’s thorny habit keeps stock inside the paddock, provides shelter and medicine for the animals (horses especially will self-medicate). Its heavy coverage of blossom in spring makes… read more

  • Apricot tastings and potato curry

    Apricot tastings and potato curry

    While visiting Auckland to spend time with my grandson Beau, I took the opportunity to promote my son’s preserved apricots by carrying out tastings at the Farro Fresh stores around the city.  Farros is… read more