summer pasta in the garden
Category: main meals
chicken, leek and fennel gnocchi for two
sarah’s beef rendang
Lordy, Lordy it’s been a while again! I have one more frenetic month coming up, then things should settle down a tiny bit and I hope to be back here sharing recipes with you, much more regularly! Meanwhile, today’s is one of my all-time favourites, and I think the most popular from Coming Unstuck – […]
show us your brussels, with orecchiette, pancetta, ricotta, lemon & chilli
Lordy, Lordy it’s been a while! Are you still out there!?? My life has been so crazily busy lately, I am relieved to finally have a new recipe for you. It is inspired by one of my favourite dishes at Andiamo restaurant and has a delicious combination of vibrant brussels sprouts, salty pancetta, creamy ricotta, […]
mushroom & castello double cream truffle brie gnocchi with pancetta
Lordy lordy I have one epic recipe for you today! It is the second in my current collaboration with Castello and utilises their absolutely outrageous Castello Double Cream Truffle Brie and involves salty pancetta, sweet onion, earthy mushrooms, soft pillowy gnocchi, and a crumbling of walnuts…but seriously the thing that makes it so decadent is […]
castello double cream brie tartlets with caramelised onion, figs & prosciutto
Well good morning and happy Wednesday! Today’s recipe is such a treat to share, and part of my latest collaboration with the good people at Castello – a super easy, totally decadent and delicious puff pastry tart loaded with sweet caramelised onions, luscious figs, cured prosciutto and melted Castello Double Cream Brie. Topped with a […]
epic hybrid car with an epic hybrid pasta
…packed full of autumnal flavours!
ultimate king salmon scrambled eggs & king salmon, edamame bean & avo slaw
I have been in ‘sad-arse dinner for one’ mode again lately, which has ironically worked out spectacularly well for my latest collab with Regal Marlborough King Salmon! Today’s recipes are for two cold smoked salmon snacks, both of which are super quick and easy to prepare, and can be increased in volume if you want […]
summer kumara & chicken tart with tomato & corn salad
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
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 […]
mexi-burgers with avocado, smoked paprika mayo, & crunchy slaw
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
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
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 […]
uber-rueben sammies & epic christmas breville giveaway!
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 […]