Let's get NZ cooking: Colourful, versatile risotto
This recipe is for a very tasty risotto that uses a mixture of quinoa and amaranth made from equal parts red, black and white quinoa, and amaranth. You can get some variety of this premade from...
View ArticleHelp get NZ cooking: Falafel wraps
This is a really quick and easy meal, either for lunch or dinner. It's super cheap and uses chickpeas in a way that is tasty and healthy.
View ArticleHealthy tamarind and papaya salad
You know that post-Christmas period where you feel like you weigh a tonne? Yeah, I know that feeling, too.
View ArticleHelp get NZ cooking: Fresh Greek salad
1 small cucumber, peeled and cubed1 juicy ripe tomato, cut in eight wedges1 small redonion, qartered and separated into stripsGood amount fresh torn basil leaves Half a block creamy feta cheese,...
View ArticleHelp get NZ cooking: Prawn and chickpea stir fry
I've just cooked and eaten this dish - all in about 20 minutes.
View ArticleHelp get NZ cooking: Strawberry & spinach salad
I got this recipe from a friend in Wisconsin. She served it up on a snowy winter's day and even then it was a nice meal. It's a very easy and very tasty salad,enough for an entree on its own.
View ArticleGet NZ cooking: Vietnamese vege rolls
These rice paper rolls are good for you, impressive at dinner parties, and they taste divine. You can see why they're one of my favourite foods.
View ArticleReader recipe: Breakfast burritos
Breakfast burritos are popular in the American SouthWest.
View ArticleGet NZ Cooking: Baked ricotta cake
This is an amazingly simple, delicious treat, given to me by one of my Italian work colleagues. It was her Nonna's and I had to twist her arm to get the recipe.
View ArticleGet NZ cooking: Blueberry Waldorf salad
This makes for a nice change from the usual salads we have and it's very easy to make.
View ArticleGet NZ cooking: Beef noodle soup
This soup is simply the most delicious Asian soup I have ever tasted. If you ever have the chance to visit Taiwan, do it! It is a truly beautiful country.
View ArticleGet NZ cooking: Marmite chicken
As black gold returns to the shelves of New Zealand, Clare Thomas shares a recipe for Marmite chicken.
View ArticleParsley, paprika and cheese muffins
These muffins are another easy family favourite. We always have these with bowls of 'just vegetables' soup. No stock, no other flavourings, just simple veggies such as celery with the leaves, grated...
View ArticleRecipe: Cauliflower soup
Now that the weather is cooling down, thoughts turn to a nice, and simple to make, soup for Sunday tea.
View ArticleGet NZ cooking: Easy to make dumplings
As a change from potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, etc, we often like to have dumplings. A number of recipes I have tried are heavy and sit like lead in the tum but I find this recipe seems to be much...
View ArticleHelp get NZ cooking: Sultana loaf
This is a firm family favourite. The original recipe came from a friend way back in the late 60s when we were in the MG Car Club in Auckland.
View ArticleGet NZ cooking: Sauerkraut with bacon
Sauerkraut means sour cabbage in German and mixed in with bacon it can make a yummy meal.
View ArticleMake your own cannelloni and save
I am sick of hearing about food prices and the cost of food. I know prices have gone up and this is shown in the price of restaurants.
View ArticleRecipe: Pork with tamarillos
When the cold season arrives, out comes this old favourite. The amounts are old fashioned, as the recipe is old fashioned.
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