Regular readers will know how much I enjoy food. Eating, reading about it, cooking, listening to podcasts, watching YouTube demonstrations you name it. Anyway, here are a few things we’ve been eating recently.
As warmer weather makes its way to us in the Southern Hemisphere, salads are making a come back, and it will ne time to get out Peter Gordon’s Savour for some ideas. Salads can be as simple as rocket and parmesan with a good dressing or a bit more interesting with fennel, blood oranges, sunflower seeds and microgreens. We had these with a pasta bake made with turkey mince on Sunday.
When we were over in Martinborough the other weekend, I picked up this black truffle spread from Over the Moon. It is a very rich and creamy spread with, as the label says, black truffles. Very delicious, a little goes a long way.
We had salmon on Saturday evening for dinner, this week I roasted it with a mix of soy sauce, ginger and olive oil and very good it was to.
Finally, I picked up this honey infused with ginger the other week from the Thorndon Farmers’ Market. It is absolutely deliciious, dribbled onto toast, but I would love to try it on crumpets…imagine the butter and honey dripping rhrough the holes onto the plate and scooping it up…..
Thistles and Kiwis is a Wellington, New Zealand based blog written by Barbara, who likes cats, summer, good food and pretends to garden.
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It all looks tasty! We get a truffle butter at our local specialty store. You are so right, a little goes a long ways. It is marvelous in mashed potatoes, and melted and drizzled on oven fries.
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Oh that sounds good! I might try a little bit of the cream cheese in pasta.
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Yum!
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You meet food that is alien to me. I love butter and honey and I would never realise that they might have things added to them. Whether good honey and butter need any improving is another matter.
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I have to say this honey was surprisingly good!
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Looks delicious! I’m hesitant to buy new spreads or flavors, because I’m not adventurous with my taste buds. I need to try some thing news and see if I can find a favorite. Ok…maybe I’ll stretch myself further next year. lol
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I love that it is salad weather again!
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Me too!
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The truffle spread looks so good and so does the salmon.
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You eat such delicious things! I love the idea of ginger honey. I have had a sort of ginger marmalade in the past and it is a favorite.
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Oh that marmalade sounds good!
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Very tasty 😋
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I love it! Change of weather means huge changes in menu: different produce, different challenges …
The Ginger Honey sure sounds interesting! The most exciting flavoured honey I’ve tried is truffle honey.
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Truffle honey sounds most intereresting.
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It is not my favourite but Older Child really liked it.
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Okay, now I’m absolutely starving and it’s bedtime. I know better than to read your amazing food posts at this time of day. 😀
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Oh thank you! Sorry to have made you hungry….
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I envy those fresh salads! It’s going to be a while until we enjoy fresh salad in my neck of the woods. We are currently enjoying a winter wonderland. Have a wonderful weekend!
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Stay warm!
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Thank you!
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Lovely….my sort of food!
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