Cheese and Onion Weed Pies

Recipe Vicki Ravlich-Horan, Images Ashlee Decaires The classic combination of cheese and onion makes these little pies a winner. And your guests will have no idea you are feeding them and weeding the garden in one go! Pastry 1 cup flour pinch salt 100g butter, cold ⅓ cup sour cream Filling 1 cup ricotta 2 […]
Honey Pie

Recipe and Images Kathy Paterson Honey is the flavour bomb here so make sure you use a honey you really love. Serves 8-10 Pastry 250g (2 cups) plain flour pinch of salt 1 tablespoon caster sugar 125g cold butter, diced 1 egg yolk 50ml cold water Filling 200g good quality ricotta 4 tablespoons honey ½ […]
Individual Serve Chicken Pot Pies

Recipe Sharon Macintyre, Image Ashlee Decaires Always popular at River Ridge, a pot pie screams comfort food. 500–600g chicken thigh, diced 1 leek, finely sliced 3 cloves of garlic 2 celery stalks, diced 1 large carrot, diced 2 medium potatoes, diced 1 head of broccoli, diced 2 tbsp cornflour 2½ cups chicken stock 1½ cups […]
Heidi’s Spring Breeze Juice

Recipe Heidi Jennings, Image Ashlee Decaires Aptly named Spring Breeze because of its refreshing, zesty taste, this juice will make your insides sing! Serves 2 4 green apples, cored and quartered 2 whole cucumbers, roughly chopped 5–6 stalks celery, roughly chopped leaves of 4 mint sprigs juice of 1 lime Place all ingredients into a […]
Honey gochujang rib-eye of beef

Words and Image by Kathy Paterson Honey is one of the most diverse foods we have and honeys boundlessness of flavours, colours and textures really fascinates me. Flavour characteristics are formed by rainfall, wind, soils and flora and the simpliest way to get to know which honey you will enjoy is to taste at farmers’ […]
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, […]
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 […]