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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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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 | 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
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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Quick tips for flooded gardens
Though the state of the garden immediately after a devastating weather event may not be top on the priority list, at some point you may wonder what to do in a flood-affected garden. Here is a list of simple things you can do in the garden after flooding.
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9 Magnificent Gardens That Amazed Us This Year
Over the past year, there have been 9 stand out gardens on the journal that our readers just get enough of.
From a wild cottage garden on a Danish Island, to a tropical villa garden in New Plymouth. A 5 acre garden in Canterbury, to a petite retreat garden in South Melbourne — these were the journal’s best-loved gardens of 2022….
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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Recipe | Lemony broccoli, pea and ginger brown rice with toasted cashews and sticky sultanas
With ingredients suited for Spring, Autumn and WInter, this gluten free stir-fry recipe by Vanessa Clarkson is full of flavour and perfect for a simple and delicious weeknight meal for busy families!
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Recipe | Roast potatoes, cherry tomatoes & sprouting broccoli with caper pesto
A gorgeous recipe by Vanessa Clarkson that can be served either as a side or bulked up to make a whole meal. Perfect for summer, spring and autumn!
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Recipe | Pumpkin farrotto with crispy shredded kale & sage
Farrotto is a traditional Tuscan risotto that uses Farro instead of rice. This recipe by Vanessa Clarkson is best enjoyed in autumn/winter and is packed full of seasonal vegetable goodness.
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Recipe | End of Season Red and Green Tomato Relish
This is the perfect recipe for using up the last of the tomatoes on your plants that won’t have enough time to ripen this late in the season.
Recipe by Jen Pomeroy, The Modern Mess
Designing Your Vegetable Garden | The Best Place for a Garden
Determining the location of your garden is probably the most significant decision you will need to make. Where you choose to establish your garden is going to determine its success and ease of maintenance.
— Extracted from The Abundant Garden by Niva and Yotam Kay
Recipe | Tomato pilaf w/ black lentils + caramelised onion
This delicious and nutritious almost-one-pan-meal was inspired by Turkish tomato pilaf and Mujadara, a tasty combination of rice, lentils and onions found throughout the Middle East.
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Recipe | Orange, hazelnut + coconut bircher muesli
This bircher muesli is the perfect make-ahead meal. With the goodness of coconut yoghurt, protein-rich chia, toasted hazelnuts and orange, it’s packed full of flavour and is super-quick and easy to make.
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Homemade herbal tea from herbs, spices, flowers + other everyday things
To make herbal tea, select your spices, herbs or flowers, and place into a tea pot. Cover with boiling water and allow to brew for 5 minutes, before drinking warm or at room temperature. For a rough guide, use 1 teaspoon herbs/spices/flowers per 250ml (1 cup) boiling water.
Recipe by Emma Galloway, Every Day
Easy, Every Day Recipes — by Emma Galloway
According to recipe developer and blogger, Emma Galloway, everyday food should be quick and easy, using readily available ingredients and simple techniques. Emma’s latest cookbook, Every Day, contains a range delicious and adaptable gluten-free and vegetarian recipes including nourishing breakfasts, snacks, baking, easy weeknight meals and desserts.
Plant Types — Perennials, Annuals & Biennials
Having a broad understanding of plant types will unlock your creativity and pathways to further knowledge. Learn about the difference between perennials, annuals and biennials…
— Extracted from Petal Power by Julia Atkinson-Dunn
How to grow — Verbena Bonariensis
VERBENA BONARIENSIS — A tall airy perennial with long cylindrical stems, sparse leaves and tightly clustered violet flowers. Written by Julia Atkinson-Dunn, Petal Power
Recipe | Rhubarb & raspberry picnic pie
When it comes to tips and inspiration for picnicking with kids, Rachel Savage is your gal. The epitome of a “cool mom” — colourful, creative and full of ambitious outdoor adventures. Rachel shares tips on picnicking with kids, plus her Picnic Pie recipe.
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Plant profile | Pōhutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa)
John Dawson’s guide to one of New Zealand’s unique native plants - Pōhutukawa.
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