-The KitchenMaid-

Q: What do you call a goat that's sitting around doing nothing? A: Billy Idol. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. I fell down a r...

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

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...

"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 ...

Do you know how good it is to go nuts? In fact, we should all go nuts more often. Nuts are full of health benefits, with some recent studie...

Last Sunday my sister-in-law turned up on my doorstep with a huge chocolate cake, a tub of Zany Zeus creme fraiche and a jar of Fix and Fogg...

I don't mean to sound like one of those smug types who do everything but knit their own organic toilet paper,  but I am morally opposed ...

Kombucha - a kind of slightly fizzy fermented tea - is having a moment.  The drink, which is made from sugar, tea, bacteria and yeast, ha...

Long-time readers will know that I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Easter - no hot cross buns before Good Friday; no Easter eggs bef...

Are you a Good Bitch? I am. In fact, I'm one of many. I'm not telling you this to show off, but to get you to join us in a kind of...

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

Did you give up coffee, sugar and cake on January 1? Nah, me neither. If you did, look away now. Because here comes a lush coffee cake - tha...

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...

I'm not sure it's the sort of thing Oprah writes in her gratitude journals, but every day I thank my stars that no one in my househo...

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...

I'm sure there's a Chinese proverb about disaster being the mother of invention, or danger being the signpost to opportunity, or som...

It's the ultimate collab - two loved and respected food brands who each make fantastic quality products, joining them together in blende...

Ever shaken a Buddha's hand? I wouldn't recommend it; the 'skin' is pitted and lumpy and the fingers are disturbingly claw-l...