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Produce report March 25
Fresh this week: All your Autumn favourites are looking good at New World this week with tomatoes, eggplant, courgettes, capsicums, pumpkin, buttercup,...
Three ways with buttercup pumpkin
As well as having an adorable name, buttercup pumpkins (also known as buttercup squash) have the kind of vegetable good looks that you’d expect to find in a...
Produce report March 18
Fresh this week: New season red kumara is plentiful and good buying this week, as are apples and pears. You can start looking for kiwifruit now too, with...
Annabel Langbein's ways to use figs
I still think of the summer of 1984 as the summer of figs. Blissfully fat black figs, their soft skins splitting with ripeness, scarlet floral centres...
Passionate for passionfruit
Passionfruit were first discovered around 1700 in the jungles of Brazil by a Jesuit priest. They were named the ‘Passion of Christ’ because the plant’s...
Produce report March 11
Fresh this week: New Zealand limes are here, albeit at a cost, which is a little less than the imports we have been relying on over summer. “They’re...
Wrapped up foods
In country kitchens all over the globe clever cooks use whatever ingredients they have at hand to prepare filled pastries and pastas that will fill hungry...
Fig season!
I’ve had a complicated relationship with figs ever since I discovered a dried one in my lunchbox as a five-year-old. I still remember sobbing outside the...
Beer essentials
There’s nothing like a long, cool beer for quenching the thirst during summer. But beer can also be eaten. It’s a great flavour enhancer for many dishes...
Produce report March 4
Fresh this week: New Zealand-grown pears are in season. “You’ll notice the early season varieties like Starkrimson, which are very distinctive with their...