Cook Eat | Mini Frittata Recipe

We are crazy about eggs in this house {I’m pretty sure I’ve told you that about 100 times already!}, but everyone in our house LOVES eggs.  We go through around 2 trays a week and eat eggs made every way imaginable, a couple of times a week for breakfast, sometimes for lunch and sometimes for dinner. We all know we …

Coconut Milk Banana Smoothie Recipe

Cook Eat | Coconut Milk Smoothie Recipe

Vitasoy have been so kind as to send us some samples of their new Coconut Milk, so we have been busy recipe testing and finding ways in which we can incorporate this yummy, dairy-free milk option into our family diet.  We have all switched to coconut milk at breakfast; we make Nixon’s porridge with it, Ethan and Dave have it …

Cinnamon Brioche

Cook Eat | Cinnamon & Brown Sugar Brioche Recipe

  These puppies are bad news brown.  Don’t make them then come crying to me all like “I’ve put on 27 kilos because of BRIOCHE”.  I know, I feel your pain, now eat you pain away, brioche makes everything better x The basic dough recipe is from the Little and Friday Cookbook – Celebrations, the method is mine x This is not a …

Miso Hoki Recipe

{CLOSED} Cook Eat | Miso Hoki Recipe + GIVEAWAY!

  Dave and I attended an awesome Supper Club hosted by Sealord on Tuesday night which saw Trudi Nelson from www.fresh.co.nz cooking up some divine recipes using fresh Hoki.  Previously I had been a bit turned off by Hoki, my experience was that it was a bit too flaky to really use for anything other than a pie. Well, I have been …

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Cook, Eat | Smoked Fish Pie Recipe

So many iconic New Zealand brands are participating in New World’s Little Shop promotion but Sealord have taken it one step further this year; they have built two fully functioning Little Boats, complete with engine and rudder which will be given away to two lucky Sealord customers!  All you have to do is buy Sealord at New World and swipe …

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How to | Our Water Kefir Routine

About 6 weeks ago, my good friend Debbie gifted us some water kefir grains and a bottle of her own fermentation to see if we even liked it!  We did, we ALL loved it and after a few hiccups initially things are brewing along smoothly!  I now have two jars fermenting, ready on alternate days and the kefir grains have multiplied …

Tomato Chutney Recipe

Cook Eat | Tomato Chutney Recipe

I have grown us a bounty of tomatoes this season, and despite our best efforts we are accumulating a bit of a back-log. Time for chutney. Ingredients 1.25kg green or firm tomatoes chopped (I used some red ones also) 3 chopped onions 2 chopped apples 1/3 to 1/2 head of cauliflower florets broken into small pieces 2 cups of brown …