Start by mixing 500 g of ricotta with a few flowers and petals (I used cornflower, verbena and calendula). Add salt to taste and white p...

Exciting news! Savour, my second book with over 100 recipes (mostly family and Italian recipes) is now available as an ebook:  from Kobo , w...

Is kahikatea berry season again! I already have a few posts about foraging these New Zealand tree berries here , if you want to find out mor...

Abbiamo passato un po' di giorni nella penisola del Coromandel, vicino a Little Bay, bellissima spiaggia! La vista dal nostro 'batch...

  Labne cheese is basically strained yogurt. I use   Cyclops  organic yogurt (green top) which I find to be the best for making labne. Use t...

  It is winter here and no so many flowers in the garden, but I have plenty of dried cornflower petals, which keep a beautiful blue colour a...

  I have a selection of dried petals: blue cornflowers, red petals (a mixture of rose, verbena, dianthus) and orange and yellow (marigold an...

  This is a delicious starter or side dish. Cut the zucchini in thin long strips and pan fry with olive oil on both sides for just a minute ...

  Pick the marigolds and shake them well into the garden to save all the insect. Pick a few little tender leaves too. Next rinse the flowers...

 

  Yeah onion weed time again!! Pick some fat one, as many as you can, wash well the juicy bulbs and chop finely, adding some green stalks an...

3 JUNE 2020 This open letter has been written by  Slow Food USA  to address the nationwide protests. Slow Food stands behind the ...

I have bamboo growing in the driveway, which is beautiful but also invasive and we keep it under strict control, by cutting and.... e...