-The KitchenMaid-

Valentines Day might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I think there can never be too many days to celebrate the people you love. If tha...

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...

There's a long weekend on the horizon and - though the weather is unlikely to be playing ball - I'm still hopeful that there will be...

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...

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 ...

Four years ago, not long after my mother died, someone I didn't know very well left a lemon verbena tree on our doorstep. I found this g...

We are blessed with the best neighbours in the world. They are great neighbours for all sorts of reasons, but for the purposes of a food blo...

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...

Want a simple sauce you can use on just about anything? Look no further. This stir-together sauce takes about two minutes to make and enlive...

"Guess what, Mum?" says the six-year-old, standing beside the bed at 6.30am with a book, a frisbee and a teddy. "It's onl...

The one thing that people who achieve stuff seem to have in common is that they get up and do things, rather than sitting and waiting for t...

There comes a time in everyone's life when they get that sinking feeling. In fact, particularly unlucky people may get it several times ...

It's hot. Not to hot to eat, but definitely too hot to cook. Last night I made the mistake of turning the oven on and nearly had a heat-...

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...

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...

You might think I married my husband for his wit, good looks and charm, but there's more to it than that. What sealed the deal is was th...

Ice creams. Fish and chips. Sand castles. Sand in everything. February has turned out to be the month that January should have been. And boy...

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...

I know I shouldn't complain, but living in a building site is starting to get me down. The fact that I also have to work in one (my offi...

Who came up with the expression 'as much use as a chocolate teapot'? Can you tell me? The internet can't, and when you thi...