In the kitchen: the no pasta edition

Regular readers may be imagine that we only eat pasta in this house, or at least eat it a lot … More

What’s on your plate: February

Just before I started to put this post together, I read Deb’s post about chorizo and just had to laugh … More

As regular readers may know, I don’t work on Wednesdays, which gives me time to either do a lot or … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea… we would talk about the year past and the year … More

As you may have noticed, this week’s small pleasures is in two parts. There was just so much to report … More

With longer days and the thoughts of summer approaching, we decided to have a short weekend away over the Remutaka … More

While spring is here, the tale end of winter can still be seen in the wealth of root vegetables to … More

Well, we have begun clearing clutter in earnest and there seems to be never ending stream of things we are … More

There is no getting away from it, I love pasta. In summer, with soft and fragrant aubergine in Pasta alla … More

With a week that started with two more days off sick with this awful cold, it was surprisingly full of … More