Pea & Paneer Curry

Recipe and images by Emma Galloway This simple curry comes together in the time it takes to cook rice. While the ingredients list looks long, it is mostly just spices. You can find fresh curry leaves at selected supermarkets and fruit and vege stores. They freeze well and can be used straight from frozen, meaning […]

Excess Cabbage

Words Vicki Ravlich-Horan Images Ashlee DeCaires For me, cabbage is one of those vegetables that doesn’t come with fond childhood memories – be it the boiled variety that accompanied many a winter meal in the 80s or the horrors of the cabbage soup diet. The fact is there are many more ways to enjoy this […]

Flatten Your Curve

Words Janine Tait For most of my career, I’ve been devoted to the world of skin health. I trained as a beauty therapist, then later as a nutritionist when I realised that I couldn’t truly transform skin by treating it from the outside alone. I needed to understand what was happening on the inside, too. […]

BEETROOT CHUTNEY

Recipe Brad Kine Image Brydie Thompson Autumn is always a time of abundance, be it the wonderful in season fruit or your bursting vegetable garden. Falls Retreat know this only too well with their massive garden that not only provides super fresh picking for the plates that come out of the kitchen but as a […]

Hazelnut + Dark Chocolate Slice

Recipe and image by Emma Galloway I’ve been making versions of this slice for years, an adaptation from a recipe in my latest cook book, Every Day. Essentially it’s made up of a bliss ball mixture, which gets pressed into a tin and topped with a lush dairy-free chocolate ganache and chopped nuts. This hazelnut […]

Mushroom & Walnut Quinoa Bowls with Baja Sauce

Recipe and images by Emma Galloway Growing up vegetarian, I’ve never been one for ‘fake meats’, which are usually full of hydrolysed soy protein and about a million other ingredients I wouldn’t usually eat. But I have to say, there’s something quite special about this homemade vegetarian ‘mince’ alternative, made with mushrooms and walnuts. Super […]

TARAKIHI CRUDO WITH LABNEH, FENNEL & PICKLED APPLES

  Recipe and images by Fiona Hugues The weather where I live, not far from the sea, is still great for a jaunt in the boat and luscious pale pink fillets of freshly line-hooked bountiful species are happily often ready and waiting in my fridge. We prefer to eat fish raw these days, or crudo […]

Butter me up

Words Vicki Ravlich-Horan, Images Ashlee DeCaires I am not a huge fan of eating corn off the cob – it’s a messy affair! Luckily, the excuse it provides to eat lashing of butter tips this summertime treat in its winning favour. This summer I suggest we crank that butter action up a notch by having […]

The Ultimate Hummus

Recipe and images by Julie Le Clerc There’s hummus and then there’s hummus! Hummus is a staple dish from the Middle East, where it has been relished since ancient times. Its popularity spread far and wide, and today it’s enjoyed worldwide. The word hummus in Arabic means chickpea, but the tasty dish we know and […]

Pavlova with L&P Jelly and Kiwifruit

Recipe by Vicki Ravlich-Horan There is not a more classic dessert than a pav! Growing up, neighbourhood BBQs were a regular occurrence in our street and Shirley Morrison was the Pav Queen. I remember them coming in one of two ways, topped with Kiwifruit or jelly crystals. This was well before freeze dried fruit powders […]