Easy Feijoa Tart
Recipes and Images By Kathy Paterson My go-to pudding if I need one in a hurry and you can vary the fruit to fit the season. Make an egg wash by lightly whisking just the yolk and a teaspoon of cold water together—this gives a gorgeous, dark honey colour to your cooked pastry. Serves […]
Poached Feijoas with Yoghurt Cream, Granola Sprinkle and Chocolate Shavings
Recipe and Images by Kathy Paterson Serves 4 Granola Sprinkle 1 cup quick-cook rolled oats or use puffed rice ½ cup whole almonds, roughly chopped ¼ cup raw cashew nuts, roughly chopped ¼ cup coconut chips 1 tbsp white sesame seeds 1 tbsp chia seeds ½ tsp ground ginger or ground cinnamon pinch […]
Roasted Feijoa and Lime Shortcake
Recipe and Images by Kathy Paterson Roasted Feijoas Try roasting feijoas, it’s a great way to preserve them for a few days. If you are using roasted feijoas for the shortcake recipe, then finely grate the zest of the lime before juicing. 12 large feijoas, halved, flesh scooped out with a teaspoon juice of […]
Fig Salad
Recipe Harriet Boucher, Images Brydie Thompson Almost any grain will work for this salad. I love the earthy nutty flavor of freekeh though, and it’s readily available at Vetro. Ingredients: 1 cup (180g) freekeh, rinsed, drained 5 figs, quartered 3 tbsp honey ¼ cup olive oil 2 tbsp pomegranate molasses juice and zest of […]
Blue Cheese Panna Cotta, Fresh Figs, Honey and Pine Nuts
Recipe Harriet Boucher, Images Brydie Thompson This is a sophisticated dessert that blends both sweet and savoury. A perfect twist on a cheese platter to finish off your autumn dinner parties. For the Panna Cotta 375ml (1½ cups) milk 375ml (1½ cups) cream 70g (⅓ cup) caster sugar 100g blue cheese 3 tbsp boiling […]
Vegan Fig Loaf with Coconut Yoghurt and Spiced Syrup
Recipes Harriet Boucher, Images Brydie Thompson This spiced fig loaf is delicious sliced and toasted, served with lashings of butter, or serve it decorated with coconut yoghurt and fresh figs like we have here. Ingredients: 3 cups self-raising flour ½ cup sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp ginger ½ tsp cloves ¼ tsp cardamom […]
Salmon Wrapped in Fig Leaf with Fig Chutney
Recipe Harriet Boucher, Images Brydie Thompson Fig Chutney Serve this fig chutney on a cheeseboard, in a sandwich, or with the salmon wrapped in fig leaf below. It’s a great way to use up an abundance of figs and to enjoy them throughout the year. Ingredients: ½ cup brown sugar ½ cup apple cider vinegar 2 cups figs, fresh or frozen, […]
Good Buzz
The Good Buzz kombucha story began modestly in Kaikohe, in 1974. There was a bold new chapter in Wainuiomata in 2014, and it gathered pace a few years later in Tauranga. Today it is perfectly poised for major plot developments. Ryan Christensen, chief executive of Good Buzz Beverage Co, traces the history in the spacious […]
Kosher Salt and Szechuan Pepper Squid with Daikon Salad and Ponzu Dressing
Recipe Andre Da Silveria, elizabeth cafe. Images Brydie Thompson Andre’s take on salt and pepper squid uses kosher salt. Kosher salt is a coarser salt than table salt (can be found at Vetro but you can also replace it with a flaky sea salt). 1kg squid tube ½–1 cup tapioca flour 1–2 tsp kosher salt […]
Discovering a New Rotorua
Waikete Valley Thermal Hot Pools Words Vicki Ravlich- Horan Dubbed Rotovegas, Rotorua is often relegated as a tourist spot, thus a town many Kiwis visit once and then tick off their list. Sitting just over an hour’s drive from Hamilton, Tauranga and Taupō, this is a town that you can enjoy as a daytrip, a […]