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Nic Watt: Five of the best Japanese ingredients
Japanese cuisine doesn’t have to be complicated; in fact simplicity is what makes the island nation’s food so satisfying…
Recipe: Molten dark chocolate pudding with matcha green tea powder
Serves 6 To grease the moulds • 200g unsalted butter • 1 cup caster sugar Cake batter • 100g unsalted…
Recipe: Lamb cutlets roasted with asian hot pepper spices and sesame spinach
Serves two as a sharing plate I first came across this hot pepper paste at a small donburi restaurant in London. They…
Recipe: Smoked chili roasted kingfish with cucumber and ruby grapefruit salad
Serves 2 For the kingfish • 1 kingfish belly, skin on, or another firm-fleshed, oily fish such as tuna, marlin…
Food & Wine
Recipe: White miso soup
Serves 2 Ingredients • 3 tbsp white miso paste • 2 dried shiitake mushrooms • 1 10cm/sq…
Would you like lamb brain with that?
If lambs' brain tacos, sharing plates of bone marrow and a pig's head terrine sound more Fear Factor than restaurant fare…
Eatery ratings will soon be up online
The worst-rated restaurants will soon have more trouble hiding a poor grading from diners.
5 of the best sweet shops
1: The Old Lolly Shop In an arcade in Takapuna's ever-gentrifying Hurstmere Rd, the store's lolly-makers produce custom…
Review: Cocoro, Ponsonby
This was my first visit to Cocoro at night, and stepping into that large elegant room was a delight…
Brunch: Cafe O, Grey Lynn
The menu , according to the website, is inspired by local, Pacific and Asian cuisine, however there was little sign of this…
Use it or lose it
Kiwis are a bunch of wasters. Every year, each of us is estimated to throw out more than 60kg of food. For those of us not…
Recipe: Basic meatloaf
However humble, the meatloaf has gained classic status for a reason. Tasty, comforting and versatile, it's the ultimate…
Latest NZ food news (+WIN!)
There's so much delicious moving and shaking around New Zealand's culinary scene we wanted to dish it all up in to one big…
NZ's best icecream revealed
Food & Wine Archives
A team of experts have declared New Zealand Natural’s English Toffee and Rush Munro’s Maple Walnut ice…
Recipes
Recipe: Kokako's Scrambled Tofu with Ponzu Dressing and Spring Onion
Even die-hard meat lovers will enjoy this scrambled…
Leyton Ashley: A sense of place
Forget additives, foam and froth, the success of Craggy…
Recipe: Terroir oysters
New Zealand boasts some of the world's best oysters…
Recipe: Duck leg confit, celeriac, roasted quince
Serves 4 • 4 duck legs (skin on) • 2l…
Recipes
Recipe: Steak with merlot and shallot butter
Makes 6-8 portions • 6-8 good quality beef…
Recipe: Coconut, oat and chia muesli bars
Chia seeds boast a long list of wholesome qualities…
For love of mince on toast
The Topp Twins have extended their repertoire from…
Recipe: Chickpea and chorizo pot pies
It's that time of year again, when the chilly days…
Life & Style
Blind children numbers on the rise
The number of blind children is increasing in the developed world as more severely premature babies survive.
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