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Produce report: May 27
FRESH IN: Root vegetables come into their own as the weather cools. Swedes, parsnips, carrots, red-skinned kumara and affordable agria potatoes are...

Benefits of blackcurrants
Blackcurrants are having a moment. Research published last year suggested that consuming blackcurrant juice had a short-term positive impact on mental...

Produce report: May 20
FRESH IN: Meyer lemons have arrived! “If you haven’t heard them by name before, Meyer lemons are New Zealand’s most popular lemon variety, grown in our...

Produce report: May 13
NEW IN: Silverbeet and kale are looking good as the weather cools. The leafy greens join cavolo nero and other highly nutritious brassicas — cauliflowers,...

Fast food with five
Help remove the stress from weekday cooking with a little bit of planning and these easy-to-prepare five-ingredient meals. For Monday to Friday dinners,...

Meal planner: May 13
A simple miso marinated pork schnitzel gets the week off to a delicious start, while the goodness of Tuesday's vegetable korma is hard to beat there is also...

Produce report May 6
FRESH THIS WEEK: Golden, sweet and crunchy Fuyu persimmons are in supermarkets now. The older can€™t-eat-them-until-they-are-mushy astringent variety are more...

The power of microgreens and how to grow them
It seems extraordinary that so much of what is currently available to eat contains so little in the way of actual nourishment. Fizzy drinks, sweets and...

Produce report April 29
NEW IN: Satsuma mandarins have arrived for the lunchboxes. Two of them will provide 35 per cent of our daily requirement for vitamin C. As well as being...