Tag: Salt
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Bread, Celery and Apple Stuffing
The perfect stuffing for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving has crept up on us with the stealth of a lion stalking its prey. Where does the time rush off to in such a hurry? Sometimes I with I had a brake-pedal so I could slow everything down just a little. If Thanksgiving is launching itself…
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Beef Roast Simmered In Red Wine (Brasato Al Barolo)
Getting ahead of the holiday panic Thanksgiving and Christmas are stealthily creeping up on us, and are about to jump from behind a door and scream, “BOO!!!!”. I thought I’d head them off at the pass and get you thinking about an idea to make for the holidays already, so you won’t be so…
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Tomato Passata: Saving The Taste Of Summer
So many tomatoes! What to do with them all? My lovely neighbour grew a whole lot of tomato plants from seed this year. He had so many, that he gave me piles of seedlings to plant in my vegetable garden. Usually, I care for the tomatoes night and day for months, then we…
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Crispy Roast Potatoes
One of the best roast potato recipes I have ever eaten Potatoes are one of my favourite foods to eat. I’ll eat them any which way, except raw….though I would probably even eat them raw if they weren’t bad for you! And one of my favourite ways to eat my favourite tuber is…
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Potato Salad With Green Beans and Bruschetta Bread
What to do when your vegetables die and the mosquitoes arrive in force The heat has suddenly arrived with a vengeance. I went from dodging thunderstorms and procrastinating about sowing seeds to grow some vegetables to realizing that suddenly, just in one day, it is now way too hot for them to survive.…
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Salad With Artichokes and Parmesan Cheese
Waiting for artichokes This time of the year is always very exciting. As it starts to get warmer, you see glimpses of the bounty to come when peas, asparagus and even the odd punnet of juicy, exorbitantly expensive strawberries start to appear in the shops. One of my favourite things to eat in…
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Pancake Day! Buckwheat Flour Crepes
Why eat pancakes only one day a year? Pancake Day has come and gone, but the need to eat them still lingers on…….it was Pancake Day (or Chandeleur) a month ago in France (and I think in a lot of the world), and we did the right thing and ate pancakes that day.…
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Russian Fudge From New Zealand
The international history behind Russian fudge When I was a kid, my mother used to make fudge often for us. As we got older, fudge was one of our favourite things to help her cook on a rainy weekend when there was no chance to go outside to slide around in rivers and…
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Risotto With Pumpkin And Bacon
The story of the ravening monster and the pumpkin This week, I’m starting with a very sad story of emerging life, and sudden loss. I had a pumpkin plant sprouting in my vegetable garden. Every day it unfurled its leaves and grew bigger and longer. Unfortunately, also the weeds around it basked in…
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Eight Tips To Make A Perfect Zucchini Frittata
Zucchini or courgette, the frittata tastes good with either name So, do you call these long green vegetables zucchini or courgettes? After living in various English-speaking countries where each country uses slightly different words, I’ve forgotten who calls them zucchini and who calls them courgettes. Anyway, whatever they’re called, thanks to the Summer,…
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Spanish Tapas: Bean Salad With Red Peppers
It’s all about the tapas So, here we are in the last week of Spanish Tapas Month on Italian Kiwi, with Part IV! I hope you’ve been enjoying the change of scenery for a month and had a look at the salmorejo soup , the tiny fried fish and the roasted peppers. This bean salad is the…
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Salmorejo (Cold Tomato And Bread Soup)
Why you should make Spanish salmorejo soup Here we are on Part III of Tapas Month on Italian Kiwi! I hope you’ve been enjoying the change of pace so far. If you want to have a look at the tapas up until now, you can feast on battered tiny fish and roasted surprise peppers. This…
