Author: Sarah

summer kumara & chicken tart with tomato & corn salad

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Happy Friday! I was going to call this a picnic tart and salad, but given the weather forecast for the weekend I won’t…let’s call it a summer harvest tart instead? Personally I can’t wait for a bit of wild, wet weather, lovely as the summer sun has been, it’s just about at ‘too much of […]

prawn tacos

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Happy Saturdaaaaaay! How amazing is this weather…so beautiful, my lawn is basically dust, but I can’t get too bothered about it when the sun keeps shining. Right then, today’s recipe is another little collab with my mates at Best Foods using their bloody fabulous mayonnaise with lime juice, zest and garlic in a cheeky little […]

espresso panna cotta & caramel coffee eton mess

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Goooood morning, and happy Sunday! It looks like another, cloudless, blue-sky day outside my bedroom, so a perfect morning to share these two luscious, summery desserts. Both have a coffee base but with a twist – the first is an espresso panna cotta which is rich, cool and creamy, yet still light – magic. (The […]

mexi-burgers with avocado, smoked paprika mayo, & crunchy slaw

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Goooood morning and happy Waitangi Day! Today’s recipe is a perfect one for enjoying with friends around the barbecue on a balmy summer’s evening, and super easy to prepare – bonus points. Juicy, spiced beef patties are slathered in tomato salsa, avo and smoked paprika-spiked mayo then topped with a fresh, crunchy slaw and fragrant […]

prawn & israeli couscous salad with harissa mayo

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Well hellooooo – here we are three weeks into 2019 and I feel like I’m properly ‘back’ (even though I never really went away…). This recipe is one I put together for Fairfax, so appearing on Stuff, and in newspapers around the country today – and it is bloody delicious if I say so myself! […]

simple smoked salmon with feta & ricotta whip on grainy toasts

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Happy New Yeeeeeeeeear!!!!! Welcome back for 2019, I hope your year has started as well as mine has…(more on that later), first up I thought we would ease into things very gently with something which is barely a recipe at all – simple smoked salmon with feta and ricotta whip. I originally put this together […]

decadent dark chocolate ice cream & awesome christmas breville giveaway!

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And now for my second decadent recipe in association with the good people at Breville – I have one of these magnificent Breville Smart Scoop Ice Cream Machines to give away, as well as a rich and dreamy dark chocolate ice cream recipe to share. I often make ice cream without an ice cream machine, […]

uber-rueben sammies & epic christmas breville giveaway!

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Well, by crikey, do I have a treat for you! In what is bound to be my penultimate post of the year I have collaborated with the lovely people at Breville to create two recipes with a competition to WIN one the fabulous appliances used in their creation. (Two chances to win!) The first recipe […]

mexican chilli corn fritters with smoked paprika mayo & gin mojitos

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Hello friend. (Admittedly late to the party and now watching Mr Robot having seen Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody). It’s been a while! Today I have a variation on an old favourite recipe – chunky corn fritters made using kernels sliced from the cob, given a garlic and chilli kick, topped with avo, more chilli […]