For the dumplings: Grate 4 zucchini, add 500g of ricotta, 2 tbsp of grated Parmigiano Reggiano, 2 eggs, salt and pepper to taste,  and enoug...

I am on a diet but really wanted some chocolate for Mother's Day, something mostly raw, low carb and healthy. This dessert is so easy an...

👩🏻‍🍳about 20 feijoas, 3 eggs, 200 g sugar, 80 g butter, melted (I used salted butter, if you use normal butter add a pinch of salt to the...

Like most people in New Zealand I am loaded with feijoa this April. A good way to use them is in smoothies, and this is a particularly good ...

  I have been on a diet recently so this is a pretty low-fat dessert: ricotta with strawberries marinated with lemon juice (a mixture of reg...

  These baby beets (and a couple of baby purple carrots) were boiled and then peeled (the skin comes off easily) and dressed with olive oil ...

Thanks to my friend Ray I have recently discovered these sweet Spanish Ines Rosales' tortas (there is also a savoury version). And notic...

Ricciarelli are delicious Italian (Tuscan) almond sweets, apparently originated in the XIV century. Making them in New Zealand is quite spec...

  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...