-The KitchenMaid-

Remember mint sauce? I wouldn't be surprised if you don't. I'd all but forgotten about it myself, until last week when the Mr br...

No blog posts for ages and then, what? A sandwich? I'm afraid so. Truth is, I feel like I've lost my food mojo in the last couple of...

Let's get something straight: I've never been one to join in the 'fun' of St Patrick's Day. Not for me the early morning...

When I rule the world, I'm going to introduce a law banning vanilla-flavoured perfumes and all forms of fake vanilla extract. Real vani...

Did you know that in some places they're not making journalism interns learn shorthand any more? I know, I'm shocked too. Instead of...

It has become very fashionable for recipes to appear in the post-Easter sugar haze exhorting ways to use up excess chocolate eggs. But becau...

I have one plan for my winter vegetable garden. When - or if - the wind drops and the rain stops - I'm going to plan beetroot by the doz...

Kombucha - a kind of slightly fizzy fermented tea - is having a moment.  The drink, which is made from sugar, tea, bacteria and yeast, ha...

Whenever visitors to Wellington ask about Te Papa, there's only ever one thing we tell them to see - the colossal squid . This creature ...

Are you a Good Bitch? I am. In fact, I'm one of many. I'm not telling you this to show off, but to get you to join us in a kind of...

When we came home from our epic Euro adventures last year there was one thing I was dying to do: drink water out of the tap. Because cockta...

This week two extremely important women in the world of food visited Wellington. One attracted loads of attention while she filmed an advert...

T. S Eliot was wrong. April is not the cruellest month - at least not in the southern hemisphere, where it means a slew of public holidays, ...

There are only two things happening in New Zealand this week. One, the royals are here (no, not the Royals immortalised by Lorde , the oth...

Regular readers of this blog will know that we eat a lot of potatoes in this house. I have gone from being someone with a mortal fear of the...

One of my favourite childhood memories is of picking mushrooms with my father. It’s funny, because I detested mushrooms, but I loved picking...

Do you remember mousetraps from when you were a kid? I couldn't wait to make them when the Small Girl was smaller, mainly so I could eat...

Late last year I got my arm twisted into a podcast interview with the lovely  Natalie Cutler-Welsh from If Only They Had Told Me . Now, th...

I've just been looking through my photo files and realised there are a lot of beetroot recipes in my blog. I hope I'm not boring yo...

A few months ago I was complaining to a friend that the rambling nature of our garden meant that if you suddenly realised you needed herbs o...