-The KitchenMaid-

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'...

Once upon a time I used to scour charity shops and school fairs for cookbook gems, hoping to find a first edition Mrs Beeton tucked among th...

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

I'm not sure how it happened, but someone has stolen my January. I can't believe the first month of 2014 has disappeared so fast. Th...

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 ...

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...

Do you want to know what I was doing at 6am yesterday morning? I was ironing a tablecloth. Actually, I was ironing two tablecloths, after di...

You might think The Hobbit is the only game in town in little old New Zealand this month, but you'd be wrong. Very wrong. The sensible...