-The KitchenMaid-

Have you been struck by the dreaded winter lurgy yet? It has cut a swathe through our small household in the last week and I don't think...

I don't want to be a weather bore, but Wellington is having the most dismal summer ever. I mean, really. On Monday I was so cold at work...

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...

The hand-chalked blackboard sign loomed in front of us like a vision. It was a hot, windy day in the Wairarapa and the promise of 'REAL ...

I'm writing this in the room we grandly call 'the office'. There is just enough room for the laptop on this huge old wooden desk...

"Mu-umm," she says, bedraggled and worn-out at the end of a busy day at school. "I'm very hot and bothered. Do you think ...

"Unlike Justice, hospitality should not be seen to be done!" So begins ' Dining In And Dining Out In New Zealand' ...

Once upon a time I had a flatmate called Justin who ate, drank, lived and breathed coffee. He worked at a coffee roastery, he installed a st...

This recipe - if you can call it that - is direct from the 'I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier' files. If you...

This week, in between re-telling the story of the nativity ("but Mum, why was the baby Jesus a boy? Can he be a girl!"), I have be...

She wore raspberry sorbet... the kind you find at the organic store She wore raspberry sorbet... and if I let her she'd eat more and ...

Graham Joe is truly living the dream. After 20-odd years in IT, he now develops gelato flavours for a living. On the Wellington waterfront, ...

The idea for this came to me when I was running home on Wednesday night. One minute I was counting the cars roaring through the Mount Victor...

Passionfruit must be the best thing about autumn. Just when you think there are no more fruit treats to be had until strawberry season start...

I don't know what is wrong with me but all of a sudden I have become the world's worst maker of meringues. I've made two batche...

Of all the festive season leftovers, half-drunk bottles of wine are probably the hardest to deal with. Drinking them is the obvious solution...

One day, when we've all got lots of time on our hands, I'll tell you about my brave sister, who went off to seek her fortune in Chil...

To keep my brain occupied when I'm running on Saturday mornings I often try to plan meals in my head. Last Saturday, as I waddled around...