What Kim Ate (& Grew)

Tea and Scones on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon is a great relaxed way to hang out with friends. I love date scones. Unfortunately dates seem to be one of those fruit that many people dislike. To cover my bases I make a double batch. One with dates, one with currants. I use the standard [...]

I remember the first time I had haloumi. I was astonished that something so delicious could exist without me ever hearing about it before. It was at Moyses, one of my favourite restaurants of all time. For a while I was intimated by the idea of frying cheese but it’s so good I just had [...]

You might have seen my earlier post about the problems I have with cooking mushrooms. Things had improved, but I knew there was room to do better…and today I found it (with the help of a little pointer from a magazine). For this technique you need: mushrooms (say 20 brown caps) a good non-stick frying [...]

Sunday Brunch with Friends A friend of ours just had knee surgery and is not out and about as much as he normally is. Today in Wellington it was perfect winter brunch weather. So, when you can’t take your friend to brunch take brunch to your friend! The first course was: Fruit Salad I just [...]

One of my favourite non-gourmet snacks are baked bean and cheese sandwiches. I know a lot of you are cringing but sometimes a baked bean and cheese sandwich is just the right thing to eat! Honest! I cringe when I hear about people eating peanut butter and jam/jelly sandwiches. What’s with that? I fail to [...]

It’s another wintry Sunday afternoon here and I was all on my lonesome in our rather cold house (welcome to New Zealand). Time for comfort food like mousetraps with asparagus, served with a nice pot of tea. We’ve featured mousetraps here before but I just wanted to point out that the addition of lumps of [...]

A quick, simple and yummy snack. It’s especially good when you’re cooking for one or in a hurry. Ciabatta, Tomato and Olives Rub bread with garlic. Add chopped tomato. Add chopped green olives. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil. Place in oven until warm. Apply salt and pepper. Enjoy, Kim

My parents were disappointed when I overcame my childhood aversion to eating mushrooms . It wasn’t that they had something against the consumption of fungus by young people – it’s just that they’d have to share. Now I live with Kim and we both like mushrooms on pizza and in hamburgers, but I can’t get [...]

Potato Pizza is a simple way of combining both major food groups into one delicious meal. In the past I’ve always had problems getting the potatoes just how I want them. Either they’re too leathery, or too hard and underdone, or … just not as good as they should be. Indeed, I would say that [...]

For the Bron Marshall Wild Weeds Event I made Spirulina Wedges. Spirulina is a blue-green algae (Mmmm, sounds delicious) which grows wild in fresh water ponds. It’s a bit of a wonder food. As well as being a complete protein it is one of the few plant sources of vitamin B12. In powder form it’s [...]