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Month: May 2016

This week’s small pleasures: episode 12

It’s Monday evening, and time to reflect on small pleasures from the week before.  It was a relatively quiet week, … More

autumn, black tea, carrots, cat, cavolo negro, dumplings, green tea, hotpot, lentils, mushrooms, sausages, sky, Small Pleasures, Sunday, tea, vegetables, weather, weekend

Watching, listening, reading: May

Can you believe it is the end of May already?  No I can’t either.  Anyway, here is this month’s round … More

ballet, Bolshoi Babylon, books, comedy, detective novels, Deutschland 83, film, magazines, music, podcasts, reading, spy drama, television, The Archers

Nostalgia and the Scotch pancake

There are certain foods that have a way of transporting us to different times and places. One whiff of baking … More

baking, breakfast, charity, chicken, childhood, cinnamon, drop scones, food, jam, memory, nostalgia, pancakes, Paris, potatoes, Scotch Pancakes, smell, taste

This Week’s Small Pleasures: episode 11

Here we are on Monday evening, and time to look back at this week’s small pleasures.  Thanks once again to … More

blogs, contemporary dance, cooking, dance, flowers, lazy, New Zealand Dance Company, recipe link, sausages, Small Pleasures, Sunday, Sunday dinner, tea, tulips

Digital pancakes and printed pizzas

One of my favourite BBC Radio 4 programmes is Digital Human, an occasional series devoted to exploring all things in … More

3D printing, Edible Growth, food, food politics, nutrition, pasta, pizza, sustainable food sources, technology

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea we would be sitting in the upstairs lounge sipping Pina … More

apples, autumn, contemporary dance, dance, feijoas, fruit, New Zealand School of Dance, passion fruit, pears, shoes, shopping, sweater, tea, weather

Exact art or casual game

Among the headlines in the British press when I woke on Wednesday morning, was the story that BBC Food, a … More

art, BBC Good Food, books, cooking, Delia Smith, favourites, fish, game, Julia Child, Nigel Slater, quotes, recipe books, recipe link, recipes, seafood, The Forest Cantina, Unna Burch, Wellington

This Week’s Small Pleasures: episode 10

A day later than usual – it is Tuesday evening here in New Zealand as I type – but here … More

autumn, beach, cats, cauliflower, chard, flowers, Makara, Pilates, sea, Small Pleasures, Sunday, vegetables

Preserving: chutney making on a Sunday afternoon

Sunday morning should be a chance to lie in and start the day slowly.  Not so this Sunday as it … More

apples, apricots, chicken, chutney, Eurovision Song Contest, feijoas, Makara Beach, preserving, recipe link, scones, sea, Sunday

Convenience, for good or bad

This morning as I was dozing, not wanting to get up before the alarm went off, I listened to a … More

cauliflower, convenience food, food, food politics, kumara, Local produce, New Zealand, podcast, recipe, red chard, soup, spinach, ultra processed foods, vegetables

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