Waitangi Day is a great chance to head out for a picnic with the family – and this is a tasty recipe if you don’t have any luck catching kaimoana of your own!
One of Australia's top chefs, Mark Best, has shared his recipe for his decadent chocolate tart. The pastry and filling is all made from scratch, creating the perfect balance of crispy, creamy and sweet in this wonderful dessert.
This corn and chicken quiche is so simple and delicious. For variety, try adding some chopped cooked bacon to the mix or using creamed corn in place of kernels.
Punnets of deep red strawberries stacked high and deep outside fruit shops and dairies epitomise the Kiwi summer. But by the tail end of the strawberry season, as the fruit quality wanes, I’m left looking for ways to keep this less flavoursome berry exciting. Here’s my new trick: a short session in a hot oven and strawberries morph into fragrant domes bursting with flavour. These roasted berries are sublime over ice cream but even better topping a flaky pastry base smeared with zesty cannoli cream. End-of-berry-season blues sorted. Photographs by Jani Shepherd and styling by Fiona Hugues; Gatherum Collectif.
With an abundance of in-season vegetables at our disposal, this is the perfect dish to showcase some of it. I was lucky to find baby kale at my local supermarket, but you can also use baby spinach if you prefer. The blue-cheese dressing lifts the tart to create a tasty, slightly rustic starter.
Mini quiche are so quick and easy; they're an ideal dish to prepare when entertaining and are a hit at kids' parties - they may be small on size, but they're big on flavour
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