This week’s small pleasures #334

It is Monday evening on a day that has been unseasonably warm. Who knows what is going on with the … More

This week’s small pleasures #329

The clocks have gone back, autumn is here, and as they say in the country I grew up in, the … More

One thing we like in this house is meatballs. Julia Turshen’s wonderful turkey meatballs are a firm favourite and Ottolenghi’s … More

Some weeks pass with very little happening, while others are full of things that before you know it, you realise … More

Here we are at the end of February already, and what a month it has been for New Zealand with … More

Usually I have an idea of what I want to write about on Mondays when I think about the good … More

After seeing Ottolenghi in conversation on Friday last week, I had to feature one of his recipes in this months … More

No doubt many of you will have seen pictures of the dreadful flooding up north in Auckland. There are red … More

It has been another glorious sunny day today with blue skies and sunshine – something that always makes me smile … More

Knowing we were returning to Napier at the end of December, I got online early and booked a table at … More