I have never been so wracked with self doubt and fear in the kitchen as I have in the last three months.  For  while there wasn’t much I cooked or baked that was worthy of putting on the table let alone featuring here on the blog.  Being consciously... 
For all the years of friendship there is one food secret my friend Joanne and her husband refuse to share.  They are the custodians of the Sarah Nelson Grasmere Gingerbread Recipe which they produce fresh from the original Sarah Nelson shop in Grasmere in the Lake... If you’re ever looking for a pick me up I find reaching for some ginger has the desired effect. Home made hot lemon and with a spoon of ginger paste is my standard way to regain my brain after a few coaching calls back to back. It has a reinvigorating effect... 
As reality TV goes, the Great British Bake Off must be the sweetest show with plenty of sugar, bunting and I suspect lashings of ginger beer being drunk behind the scenes. Behind the nostalgic ode to the eccentricities of middle-class-middle-England village fetes is a... 
Tomorrow marks the passing of another season when we will slip officially into winter. This takes away any legitimate reason for any of us in New Zealand to moan and gripe about the cold, wind, rain or any other form of inclement weather. After all it’s winter and... 