-The KitchenMaid-

Remember when coconut oil was going to save us all? I'm not sure it's happened yet, given that the world needs saving more now than ...

I read something last week about how 'invisible prisons' - jobs, societal pressures, parenting, caring for older relatives - meant t...

"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 ...

This is the wedding cake that nearly wasn't. When one of my oldest and dearest friends announced she was getting married, I immedia...

A dear friend of mine calls herself an alternative eater - wholefoods, no meat, no refined sugar, the whole kit and kaboodle. While that ma...

Someone asked me the other day what has been my greatest achievement of 2014. In the absence of anything else, I've finally decided tha...

It's about this time of year that I start to feel slightly panicked and wish I could run away to some kind of closed community where th...

If you grew up in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s, there's a good chance this pudding will be instantly recognisable. If not, it'...

I'm not really that keen on sweets or lollies, but it takes a lot of willpower for me to resist a marshmallow. This has been a lifelong ...

I was out the other night and someone I hadn't seen for a long time said to me, apropos of something else, 'it's lucky you'r...

Some things are made for each other. Salt and caramel. Champagne and oysters. Walnuts and blue cheese. Chocolate and coconut. Then there...

If you are an organised person, you are probably sitting around shelling peas, roasting chesnuts on an open fire or performing some other se...

If you were beamed to earth from another planet at the moment you'd think all humans did was eat, drink and be merry. While the period b...

Our fridge, not to mention our bellies, are still recovering from an epic feast we had last weekend - dinner for six adults and as many chil...

Last week, when I issued a desperate call out for birthday party food ideas, I was inspired by many of the responses. But my favourite by fa...

There is a major event in our lives in a fortnight's time and I need your help. The Small Girl is turning four (four! how did that happe...

The man of the house is currently brushing up on his French skills and this means getting me to help him with his homework. Once upon a time...

Quite apart from the hijinks of Fashion Week (hey, it wasn't exactly Milan, but you have to take your excitement where you find it in t...

When I was about 11 or 12 one of my favourite cookbooks was The Australian Women's Weekly Chinese Cooking Cookbook. I don't ever rem...

It's not very cool to like Valentine's Day, is it? It's much more acceptable to frown on the ridiculousness of red roses, pink c...