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Dressing Your Salads
Making a salad dressing is often as easy as being able to shake a jar – a perfectly simple thing to do. Homemade dressings generally taste infinitely better than anything you are likely to buy*...
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Summer Food Quiz
See how much you know about the food you eat with our summer food trivia quiz. Don’t forget to let us know how well you did and of course shout if there is anything controversial! Take Our Quiz!...
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Perfect Roast Chicken Dinner
Autumn is an ideal time to get together with friends or family and enjoy the luxury of a roast chicken dinner. The weather is starting to cool a little and it is time to dust off the roasting dish...
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Bali Bliss!
The crunchy spinach pakora, although fried, are still green enough for me to convince myself they are actually not too unhealthy (ha), the glass of rosẽ is well chilled, the air is not and I am so...
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Autumn Food Trivia Quiz
Blackberries are ripe, as are figs and quince, meanwhile people forage for mushrooms, yes autumn is here. Test your knowledge with our autumn food trivia quiz. Take Our Quiz! _polldaddy.push( {...
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For The Love Of, Karena & Kasey Bird
Current Masterchef winners Karena (26) and Kasey (24) have just released their first cook book For The Love Of on Saturday. The self-published hard back book includes more than 75 delicious recipes...
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12 Delicious Pumpkin Recipes
Autumn and pumpkin recipes go hand in hand. The weather is cooling and our desire for meals with a little more substance increases. There can be some confusion around the word pumpkin vs squash and...
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The Wellington Chocolate Factory, Creating a Better Tasting World
Earlier this year on Radio Live I interviewed Rochelle Harrison from the Wellington Chocolate Factory, in acknowledgement of their Salted Brittle Caramel Chocolate Bar coming Runner-up in the Cuisine...
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Umami and Miso Paste
For years I have been making soups that seem to be missing something in their flavour component but it is something hard to define. While the soups are no doubt nourishing unless I add lots of spices...
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Tip Top Hi Protein Sandwich Ideas
As many of you will be aware, George Weston Foods has introduced a new range of white bread, Tip Top Hi Protein. The bread comes in two varieties, Tip Top High Protein – a “smooth” bread – and Tip Top...
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Cycling Cambodia
How many variations of green are even possible? Cycling along a country path surrounded by rice paddies, I am overwhelmed by a landscape filled with every conceivable shade of green and marvel at how...
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Share Your Mid Winter Feast to Win with Tegel
With the shortest day just ahead of us and snow falls around the country, it is a fabulous time to invite friends over and enjoy that feast that at Christmas time is just too hot to cook or eat. What...
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Recipes with Tahini
Do you have a jar of tahini lingering in your fridge from the last time you made hummus? It will linger no more when you start using it up in some of these delicious recipes. Tahini is predominantly...
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A Fabulous Winter Feast
It is the middle of winter, snow and frosts are settling in and it is the perfect time to resist hibernation and invite friends over for a fabulous mid-winter dinner! Often labelled mid-winter...
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Easy and Affordable Family Chicken Dinners
Try these delicious chicken dinners, they are all designed to be; easy to make, family friendly and also kind on your wallet! Each recipe has been created from frozen chicken portions (thawed in the...
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Hunting for Truffle in New Zealand
Brillat-Savarin called truffles “the diamond of the kitchen” and not too many years ago the chance for New Zealanders to taste fresh truffle was essentially reserved for international travellers with...
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Chicken to Impress
Chicken recipes are always a favourite and made more so when you use a good free range chicken such as Rangitikei. Aside from the free range status, we choose Rangitikei in our house for its...
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Nourishing Winter Soup Recipes
With the chill of winter a bowl of hot nourishing soup can be just the thing for warming body, mind and soul. Soup is of course easy to make and many can be created without a recipe using the...
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Random Act of Sweetness Week
Come and join the fun with our week of baking and taking to others – a pure random act of kindness. Most of us have fond memories of home baking and while we may not bake so much any more, for one...
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Asparagus Season, Our Recipe Picks
Asparagus season is here and we have a list of fabulous recipes to help you make the most from your green jeweled stems. Selecting and preparing asparagus Always look for stems that are firm and...
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