Recipe BELINDA McDONALD Everything is better with feta, right? Try this one-pan wander of tangy baked feta cheese that bounces beautifully between aromatic sweet figs, popping hot olives, crunchy hazelnuts, lemon & chili! TO FREEKEN DIE FOR!!! Serve alongside a big garden salad, so sexy and SO satisfying!! Serves 4 400g (2 blocks of feta…
Recipe FARM STREET LARDER | Images BRYDIE THOMPSON 5 cups of frozen peas 1 red onion, medium 2 cups self-raising flour 4 eggs 400g haloumi, 0.5–1cm diced salt & pepper 1 cup cream cheese ¼ cup mixed fresh herbs (parsley, chives etc) Cook peas in boiling water until soft, approx. 2 minutes. Place red onion…
Recipe FARM STREET LARDER | Images BRYDIE THOMPSON 1¾ cups caster sugar zest of 4 lemons 1½ cups canola oil (or any non-flavoured oil) 3 eggs ½ tsp salt 1½ cups plain yoghurt 5 tbsp lemon juice 3 cups self-raising flour, sifted Barkers lemon curd Pre-heat oven to 150°C. Beat together sugar, lemon zest, oil…
Words LIZ FRENCH | Images BRYDIE THOMPSON Let there be light. Let there be sunshine. Let there be an eatery that does the basics beautifully, that leans towards local. Farm Street Larder is all this and more! Farm Street Larder, outside the north entrance to Bayfair, must be one of the lightest, brightest cafes in…
Recipe VICKI RAVLICH-HORAN | Image BRYDIE THOMPSON Autumn is a season of abundance and this is no more evident than at the Tauranga Farmers Market. Market manager Trixie Allen says, “Finally all those loaded trees we see during summer can be picked. Paddocks can be harvested. Best of all, some summer crops extend into the…
Recipe VICKI RAVLICH-HORAN | Image BRYDIE THOMPSON Autumn is a season of abundance and this is no more evident than at the Tauranga Farmers Market. Market manager Trixie Allen says, “Finally all those loaded trees we see during summer can be picked. Paddocks can be harvested. Best of all, some summer crops extend into the…
Recipe VICKI RAVLICH-HORAN | Image BRYDIE THOMPSON Autumn is a season of abundance and this is no more evident than at the Tauranga Farmers Market. Market manager Trixie Allen says, “Finally all those loaded trees we see during summer can be picked. Paddocks can be harvested. Best of all, some summer crops extend into the…
Recipe VICKI RAVLICH-HORAN | Image BRYDIE THOMPSON Autumn is a season of abundance and this is no more evident than at the Tauranga Farmers Market. Market manager Trixie Allen says, “Finally all those loaded trees we see during summer can be picked. Paddocks can be harvested. Best of all, some summer crops extend into the autumn…
Images ILK. PHOTOGRAPHY If this past year has taught us anything it’s to appreciate what we have here. And that doesn’t just mean in New Zealand but in our own region. Tourism BOP Marketing Manager Loretta Crawford and her team have been working on a project to inspire locals to be the region’s tour guides;…
Words DENISE IRVINE | Images ALEX SPODYNEIKO On a miserable winter morning 15 years ago, my husband talked me out from the depths of a warm duvet to go to the recently opened Hamilton Farmers’ Market. I was very reluctant. It was a freezing, sleety-wet Waikato day, and I honestly didn’t feel like ducking between…
