-The KitchenMaid-

It's spring! Proper spring - with balmy temperatures, early rising birds and new buds appearing in the garden. Well, it was like that a ...

Disclaimer: I am not Japanese. I have never even been to Japan. In fact, the closest I've got is frequenting a number of Japanese restau...

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...

While I've been swamped by a tidal wave of work in the past few weeks, two good things have happened. One, my sister-in-law arrived with...

I invented this quick, delicious spaghetti when we were living in our  first London flat . It was a neat place (if you ignored the crack hou...

A few weeks ago I had a ridiculous craving for sweet and sour pork. Ridiculous because I've not eaten any for years, let alone made some...

For this month's Random Recipe Dom instructed us to get someone else to choose a recipe from their collections. I called on my sister-i...

This might sound strange, given I earn my living by tapping away at a keyboard, but one of my resolutions for 2013 is to spend less time onl...

After telling the great and the good of the New Zealand Food Bloggers Association that I didn't like food blogs that focused on pets, a...

I never thought I would become the sort of parent that hides vegetables in things. I never thought I'd have to negotiate about the weari...

The world - or at least the part of it I live in - has gone burger mad. Not only are more than 60 Wellington restaurants battling it out to ...

After doing a lot of eating out and watching Masterchef in recent months - both in the name of work - I have realised how nice it is to eat ...

You know how when you're a kid you go through a stage of wondering if you're really a princess and hoping that your real parents wil...

Many moons ago, a suitor of mine once arrived on the doorstep bearing a charmingly vacuum-packed rabbit. It was an unexpected and unconvent...

People often assume I do all the cooking at our house and sometimes, when I am feeling especially like slack housewife, I let them. But duri...

Who was it that said the more things change, the more they stay the same? This time last year I was shamefacedly admitting that I'd neve...

There are few things more random than the meanderings of a two-and-a-bit-year-old, so I put mine to good use and got her to select the cookb...

Hello, my name is Baabaara. Image via here I thought it was best to get the gratuitous and possibly bad taste lamb photo out of the way ...

It was easy choosing the book for this month's Random Recipe challenge - all we had to do was pick our favourite title. Finding somethi...

At this time of year there's always lots of press extolling the virtues of slow cookers. Occasionally I wonder about getting one, then I...