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Kermadec Restaurant, Auckland 8 Mar 2011 | 02:04 pm
We had a brilliant weekend in Auckland, and one of the highlights of the stay was the Kermadec Restaurant and the degustation menu. This is not so much a review as a hazy recollection. The Kermadec,...
Chilli or Chili (or Chile even)! 27 Feb 2011 | 12:44 pm
There's one thing that gets me really excited in the food realm, and that's chillies (Can you tell from my blog background?). I'm not sure whether its the risk that comes with the burning from them, a...
Passata! 8 Feb 2011 | 05:53 pm
It's that time of year that we go from famine to feast where tomatoes are concerned. Not that tomatoes are concerned about much. I'm so proud of LW who's been slaving away in the veggie garden, tendi...
Chicken Satay Mk2 8 Feb 2011 | 12:54 pm
Hello again! I've been remiss on my posting, but now I'm back. We had a few leftovers the other night; a garlicky chicken stock from a roast chicken, some pieces of cold roast chicken, and the usual ...
a culinary miscellany 10 Jan 2011 | 08:43 pm
Hello all, and a very happy new year! We've just had a lovely 2 weeks wherein my Mum and Dad came and visited us from Yorkshire! They had good weather, and we ate and drank like it was christmas. Now ...
Confit of Duck 20 Dec 2010 | 09:47 pm
There may be a theme emerging. Fatty, unctuous meats cooked slowly and often more than once. This is no coincidence. Confit of duck is one of my favourite things in the world of food; the first thing ...
French Onion Soup 20 Dec 2010 | 09:55 am
Just what I'm doing making a rich, hearty soup on a day which, whilst pouring with rain, is also about 23degC and very humid, is anyone's guess. But the guess would have to include in it the notion th...
Fat Pig Wine Festival 13 Dec 2010 | 02:00 pm
Yesterday was the 3rd "Fat Pig" wine festival, and they couldn't have chosen a better day for it. The fat Pig winery is a very small (2 acres) winery and hosts this event so that other small winemaker...
Noodles! (Wuhan hot-and-dry noodles, to be precise) 1 Dec 2010 | 02:08 pm
One of the many highlights of a trip to Auckland is the chance to visit a good, big Asian supermarket or 2. I love to find and experiment with ingredients, sauces and packets of things I don't recogni...
Chicken Satay 30 Nov 2010 | 10:27 pm
Mmm... I haven't made a satay sauce in ages, so, having suggested it for a friend's get-together, I thought we'd have some ourselves. The sauce has more varieties than Heinz, and mine is different ev...
