Roast Vegetable Stack
Recipe Sharon MacIntyre from River Ridge Birth centre, Images Ashlee De Caires 6 large tortilla wraps 500g pumpkin and/or kūmara 250g fresh spinach 200g mushrooms, sliced 1 large courgette, sliced 2 red capsicums ¼ cup tomato pasta sauce 50g butter 3 tbsp flour 1 tsp vegetable stock powder 2½ cups milk 1 & ½ cups […]
Broad Bean, Asparagus and Pomegranate Salad
Recipe Vicki Ravlich Horan, Images Ashlee DeCaires This salad screams spring. Using beautiful asparagus and broad beans, with a pop of tart freshness, not to mention bling factor with the pomegranate, it is perfect with lamb. I serve it with a generous smear of Clevedon Buffalo Curd on the plate, topped with the salad and […]
Nourish Cooking with Kids – Chocolate rolls
We LOVE cinnamon rolls! But wait until you try our chocolate version. Bread is a great tactile, hands on projects for kids to do and they will love the results. Click here to watch us making them. Dough: 3½ tsp active dry yeast 500g High grade flour 1¼ tsp salt 100g butter, softened ½ cup […]
Nourish Cooking with Kids – Cookies
These cookies are great to make with the kids. Click here to watch the video here of us making them. Originally they were chocolate chip cookies but for a bit more hands on fun get the kids to decorate the tops with the likes of marshmallows, pretzels, lollies, hundreds and thousands…. 200 g Butter, […]
Market Costs
Denise Irvine counts the benefits of farmers market shopping. I bought orange roughy from the Raglan Fish Truck at Hamilton Farmers Market a few Sundays back. And along with the fresh fillet – a species rarely in the regular line-up – I got a good tip on cooking it. Fish truck staffer Guy Noda-Bailey says […]
Broad Bean, Pea and Ricotta Tagliatelle
Recipe Vicki Ravlich-Horan, Images Ashlee Decaires This is quick, fresh pasta which makes the perfect midweek meat free meal. If you still have a few members of the household that need meat with every meal, serve it with a crispy piece of prosciutto crumbled on top. Wonderful in spring, but equally you could make this […]
Niçoise Salad to Share
Recipe and Images by Fiona Hugues Niçoise (pronounced niˈswaz) salad originated in the French city of Nice and has been popular since the early 20th century. Its official ingredients are hotly argued about within the culinary elite. For me it is the best use of boiled eggs, tuna in a can, fresh spring beans and […]
River Ridge’s Lactation Slice
Recipe Sharon MacIntyre, Words Vicki Ravlich Horan, Images Ashlee DeCaires Sharon MacIntyre says she can remember coming to see River Ridge East Birth Centre before it opened. That was for her job interview nearly 20 years ago. Two decades on, Sharon is still content in her kitchen at River Ridge where she is the on-site […]
An Artist in Her Element
Words Liz French, Images Brydie Thompson The work of Katikati artist Yana Meech strikes a chord with the many who meet her and her paintings at her studio, in galleries, or at art shows where she is regarded as a Top Ten Artist due to consistently high sales. The first time Yana exhibited at an […]
Harriet’s How To – Kiwi Carrot Cake
Words Harriet Boucher, Images Ashlee Decaires Sarah Tuck’s Big Bad Carrot Cake was my gateway into what I would now deem my favourite cake flavour. I had turned my nose up at the idea of carrot cake my whole life, because why on earth would you put veggies in a cake? Now I’ve been converted […]