I usually just have the banana blossom 'heart' for salads, but this time I have included a few of the little flowers that are foun...

One thing that I loved about living in Japan were the cakes, both Japanese and Western style. In fact the Western style cakes not only are o...

  Bake the whole pumpkin in the oven and then slice and remove the outer peel and centre, slice and set aside. Chop two shallots and one gre...

  This is my recipe for a simple yet foolproof ciabatta bread loaf, one of my favourite loaves! The recipe is straight from my book Savour  ...

    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...