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Musk Kisses

Musk Kisses. A perfect thing to do with leftover egg whites (the yolks went into ice-cream). Simply beat them to stiff peaks and add caster sugar. I didn’t even measure it this time. I just kept adding until it tasted right. Add a few drops of musk, a touch of […]

Hot Cross Bun Ice-cream

Happy Easter. I hope your weekend was filled with the usual suspects of Easter delight. Mine was. So on this last day of the Easter weekend, not having quite had my fill of Easterness, due to perhaps an unfortunate incident involving the ruination of actual homemade hot cross buns due […]

Kitchen by Mike II

So, a mere three days later from our first visit to Kitchen by Mike, Mum and I returned for a second helping of all that canteen goodness. Mum had the wood-fired sprouts with caviar lentils. I have only recently learnt how delicious sprouts are, and the addition of wood-fire is […]

Kitchen by Mike

Rosebery: A suburb one rarely goes to and my only reference of it is from an ad in my childhood of a sleepy sounding man in a giant mattress suit telling me of the amazing mattress prices at Mr Yawn’s Matress Factory, 443 Gardener’s Road, Rosebery. So when I heard […]

Logan Brown

Housed in a gorgeous heritage building (the former Bank of New Zealand) on the corner of the Boho-Chic side of town, Logan Brown in Wellington is impressive. when you walk in to the octagonal dining room, you cannot help but admire its beauty. And while we stood there in a state of […]

Indian Tuesday

After the success of Saturday night’s Indian, I wanted more… And having a gorgeous lot of lamb cutlets from the amazing Vic’s Meat (if you haven’t been, you simply must go to their Market Day on Saturdays between 8am and 12pm) I decided to attack the Punjabi Masala Chop recipe […]