-The KitchenMaid-

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...

Less than two weeks in and I think I've cracked why parents get weepy about their child going to school. It's not the thought of the...

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, ...

Have you ever heard the expression, 'an army marches on its stomach'? Whoever was in charge of provisioning the Antipodean soldiers ...

Do you dream of waking up on Good Friday to a trayful of freshly made hot cross buns? Me too. Over the years I've tried many ways of ach...

Many moons ago I went to a cooking demonstration by Ray McVinnie in which he was asked if one could substitute low-fat coconut milk in a rec...

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...

The thing about having a food blog is that people always think you are having something exciting for dinner. People often ask me what I'...

About 20 years ago, when I had just moved into my first flat, my flatmate Geoff specialised in what he called 'egg windows' - a frie...

Do excuse my absence but I've had a big week. I'll spare you the details, but it has involved a lot of late nights, early mornings a...

Remember what I said about  not judging a cookbook by its cover ? About two days later I went to the library and had my head turned by a ver...

I have a terrible confession to make. Somehow, against my better judgment, I have become completely addicted to The Block NZ . Three nights ...

I pulled a packet of frozen peas out of the freezer yesterday and something heavy shot out from underneath them and landed on my foot. I utt...

Do you want to get a little fatter? Move to Germany. Seriously. I've never known a country for super-sized meals, at least one that'...

A mystery visitor changed my life last Friday. I went out for a few hours and returned home to find crumbs all over the kitchen floor and a ...

Have you ever heard the story of Annadamma bread? I hadn't until recently - and like most fables, it's a grim tale (though not one o...

"Any human being possessed of sufficient gumption to track down a source of fresh yeast - it isn't all that rare - and collected e...

Do not adjust your screen: this bread really is THAT pink. I've been having a little bit of fun in the last couple of weeks, experimenti...

No matter how hard I try, our Easter chocolate mountain is showing no sign of shrinking. I've a feeling chocolate rabbits are as prolifi...

You know those smug, holier-than-thou people who announce they've given up sugar/caffeine/alcohol/oxygen? I'm not one of them. And I...