Journal

By Rose Newburn
September 24, 2020

The title is a reference to a song by the Troggs in 1966 - Wild Thing! We have a number of random things growing in our garden that are edible. Here are a few of them.

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Recipes for the week starting 26th September

By Rose Newburn
September 23, 2020

baked kumara stuffed with fresh vegetable salsa, pumpkin and leek gratin, chickpea salad, baked salmon and peppered pork loin... what's not to love?!

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Recipes for the coming week - 19th September, here we come!

By Rose Newburn
September 16, 2020

First up is a Kumara and Corn hotpot - spiked with lime juice and chilli, as well as thyme, chickpeas,...

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Bon Dia Catalunya!

By Rose Newburn
September 16, 2020

The order came from Catalonia ... fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your perspective) the delivery address was closer to home!

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Recipes for the week starting 12th September

By Locavore NZ Admin
September 09, 2020

Salads replaced with soups... it must be Spring!

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Vegetarian, GF and DF chowder anyone? Recipes for the week starting 5th September.

By Locavore NZ Admin
September 02, 2020

This weeks' recipes feature locally grown seasonal vegetables. This is not surprising.

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Recipes for the start of September... spring is in the air!

By Locavore NZ Admin
August 26, 2020

There's always a soup... this week it's Pumpkin and Carrot soup with za'atar. Warming, full of flavour, and Very Orange! This...

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Recipe options for the week starting 22nd August

By Locavore NZ Admin
August 19, 2020

I went to dinner the other night and we had Ethiopian Peanut Stew... and I remembered all over again how very...

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recipes for the week starting 15th August

By Rose Newburn
August 12, 2020

Recipes for this week include a green soup, baked kumara with middle-eastern flavours, potato curry, stir-fried greens topped with flakes if ginger salmon, and slow-cooked lamb with Jamaican spices...

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Recipes for the week starting 8-08 , kumara AND yacon. Don't get them mixed up...

By Locavore NZ Admin
August 05, 2020

This week's recipes feature tubers from South America, an Asian classic, SOUP because it's winter, and chicken and coleslaw - you could wrap that in a tortilla and stay with the South American theme...

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No it's not kumara ... it's yacon!

By Locavore NZ Admin
August 05, 2020

One of the weird things we grow at our place - yacon. So tasty... cooked or raw. Some people call them apples of the earth, I know at least one person who refers to them as root fruit...

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Recipes for the week starting 1st of August

By Locavore NZ Admin
July 29, 2020

Recipe previews for the week of August 1st... A vegetable bake, slow-cooked beef cheeks, golden lentil soup, fish baked in a lemony sauce, and a great pasta dish. Week sorted.

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