Recipe | Fruity Sangria
One of Kelsi Boocock's favourite cocktails — She loves this recipe from her cookbook because it's packed with so much fruit and leaves you feeling so refreshed!
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Recipe | Gado Gado-style Salad
Kelsi Boocock's (Healthy Kelsi), adaptation of this Indonesian classic. Super crunchy, sweet and nutty - the combination of potatoes, tofu and peanut sauce is delicious.
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Recipe | Greek Watermelon Salad
This refreshing summer salad by Kelsi Boocock is inspired by her Europe adventures. It’s the perfect dish to bring along to a barbecue or dinner party.
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Recipe | Lime, apple & poppy seed cake with caramelised coconut topping
A lime, apple and poppy seed cake that is baked then returned to the oven after adding the coconut topping, with the liquid soaking into the cake to make it incredibly moist.
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Recipe | Ultimate vegan burgers
Both vegans and meat lovers can rejoice – here is the answer to our burger prayers! Includes recipe for vegan burger buns and coriander onions.
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Recipe | Kūmara and tofu dumplings
Simple to make and packed with goodness. These dumplings are great for stocking the freezer with, ready to whip out at short notice when mates show up for dinner. Recipe from Good Vibes by Alby Hailes.
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Recipe | Lemon Curd by Mint Cakery
A classic and mouthwatering lemon curd recipe by Michelle Morfett of Mint Cakery.
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Recipe | Lemon syrup & blueberry loaf
This loaf recipe from Mint Cakery by Michelle Morfett is loaded with the perfect blend of icings and garnishes. Each flavour packed mouthful will leave you wanting more and more.
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Recipe | Brown butter & caramalised white chocolate tray bake cake
Once you have tried browning butter, you will never be able to go back! This Mint Cakery recipe by Michelle Morfett is one that may take some time and patience to perfect - but it will be sure to impress the masses.
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Recipe | Mediterranean vegetable strudel
A Mediterranean vegetable strudel by chef Wendy Morgan. She also shares a flaky pastry recipe, along with pizza sauce and basil pesto recipes.Recipe from Who Made All the Pies: The ultimate collection of pastry treats for every Kiwi household.
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Recipe | Cauliflower tart
Chef Wendy Morgan shares her Cauliflower Tart recipe, along with a recipe for shortcrust pastry.
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Recipe | Upside-down apple and polenta cake by BearLion
The ease of an upside-down cake is always a delight. If you don’t have apples, any other fruit is welcome.
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Recipe | Garlic potatoes with smashed peas, pecorino, cumin, dill + chilli by BearLion
At the BearLion Deli there was a notebook in which any of the staff could jot down a favourite salad of the week. Here’s one that made the cut.
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Flavours From My Italian Kitchen Garden: Bri DiMattina
Recipe developer and gardener Bri DiMattina’s book, Nostrana, sets out to rekindle the joy of the home garden and kitchen. Nostrana means homegrown, ours; growing food with the intent of sharing it with others.
In this interview Bri shares her keys to starting and enjoying the edible garden journey —
Recipe | Zucchini Arancini
If you are seduced into planting lots of zucchini, unsurprisingly you will have lots of zucchini to use up — this is for you.
Arancini are Sicilian and southern Italian, and a similar recipe in Rome is called suppli. This version, made purely from grated zucchini, is a uniquely New Zealand garden version.
Recipe by Bri DiMattina, from Nostrana
Recipe | Polenta & Corn Fritters
This corn fritter recipe has been one of Bri DiMattina’s family’s favourites for years. It is easy to sub in any other vegetables. Once fried, the ‘crust’ tastes a lot like popcorn, and then it’s just full of goodness.
Recipe by Bri DiMattina, from Nostrana
Recipe | Tomato Sauce — by Bri DiMattina
Bri DiMattina’s great-grandmother’s tomato sauce recipe, from Napoli. It’s one of those sauces that gets better as it ages. A bottle of this is pure gold.
Recipe by Bri DiMattina, from Nostrana
A Beginner’s Guide to Foraging — A Forager’s Life
Helen Lehndorf is a life-long forager and Manawatū-based writer. In Helen’s latest book, A Forager’s Life, she seamlessly weaves memoir with foraging principles, practices and recipes. It’s an intimate story and a promise that much can be made of the world around us.
Here you’ll find a snippet from Helen’s helpful appendices: A beginner’s guide to foraging.
Words from A Forager’s Life by Helen Lehndorf
Recipe | Spinach, Leek, Zucchini & Feta Bake
This is one of those lovely mix-and-match dishes where you can use up all sorts of vegetables, herbs and odds and ends of cheese that happen to be lurking in the fridge. Recipe by Belinda Jeffery.
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Recipe | Roasted Red Capsicum, Smoked Paprika & Tomato Soup
Belinda Jeffery is a food writer, cookbook author and one of Australia’s most loved home cooks.
This delicious soup has the most wonderful rich colour and intense flavour, and you can feel it doing you good as you eat it.
Recipe from In Belinda’s Kitchen by Belinda Jeffery
How to: Create a Thriving Edible Backyard — Kath Irvine
Kath Irvine is a renowned organic gardening and permaculture expert and author. Through her writing and consults, she helps people create productive, beautiful and, most of all, easy gardens. In this interview, Kath shares her gardening wisdom, including the importance of starting small, slowing down, taking notice and following your intuition.
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Planting in guilds: Permaculture guild combos
A guild is a team of plants that support, protect and nourish each other, working together for the benefit of all. A guild creates stability and best health because the variety of plants above brings a variety of roots and soil life below.
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Christall Lowe: Our life of kai
Christall Lowe (Ngāti Kauwhata, Tainui and Ngāti Maniapoto descent) is a Manawatū-based food stylist, photographer and recipe developer. In this interview Christall shares what was behind the creation of her book — Kai: Food Stories & Recipes From My Family Table, along with stories of her wider family’s plentiful edible garden, and the effect of nature has on her creative practice…
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Recipe | Pretty Slaw with Pomegranate & Beetroot
This slaw makes a regular appearance on our catering menu and is a nice easy slaw to whip up for a large gathering or a festive feast.
Recipe from RIPE: Thought for Food
Recipe | Green Soba Noodle Salad
A bountiful vegan salad loaded with greens, this salad can also be served up warm as a meal.
Recipe from RIPE: Thought for Food
Zoë Field’s flower-filled life | Field of Roses
Zoë Field of Field of Roses runs a flower farm and floral design studio with her mother, Sue Field, just outside of Gisborne, New Zealand. Inspired by her flower-filled life, Zoë has released her debut book that celebrates the joy and beauty of flowers throughout the seasons.
Read an excerpt from the book: Lost & Found and learn about Zoë’s life as a flower farmer and florist —
Recipe | End-of-Summer Chow Chow — by Christall Lowe
This recipe is a great way to use up all the veges in an exploding garden, or veges that are cheap to buy at the end of summer. Anything goes, really, as long as you get the base right.
Recipe by Christall Lowe, from Kai
Recipe | Feijoa Ice Cream — by Christall Lowe
During the height of feijoa season in autumn, feijoa icecream is a delicious way to use up some of the fruit!
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Feijoa Ice Cream Recipe by Christall Lowe, from Kai
Recipe | Reveya: Peanut-stuffed baby aubergines
“I never liked aubergines at school. They were always dense, oily and tasteless, whereas at home my mother would stuff them with crushed peanuts, cumin and tomatoes to make these 'reveya' which I couldn’t eat fast enough.” Recipe & words by Urvashi Roe
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Through the seasons in Kate Williams’ Canterbury garden | The After-hours Stylist
Kate Williams, known as The After-hours Stylist, lives with her family on a lifestyle block in Canterbury, where she is kept busy with running floral workshops, and looking after her extensive 5 acre garden.
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