My latest article on thisNZlife on how to use your eggplant (aubergine) haul. Just remember to cook them thoroughly to get everyone loving them! Pinar's Turkish Stack

My latest article on ThisNZlife Add Nashi to your life Nashi Ginger Tart

It's that time of year again. We are harvesting masses of tomatoes from the garden and cannot keep up, so it is time to make some passata to have in the store cupboard for pasta, pizzas, stews and soups all year long.Harvest Harvest Now I will admit I am a lazy cook. I am too impatient to spend...

My latest article in thisNZlife is all about the apricot recipes from my childhood. Hot summer evenings spent sitting in the shade of the apricot tree, eating its bounty thisNZlife article on apricots

Got an excess of lemons. Get inspiration from this article I wrote for Lifestyle Block Magazine. Now on thisNZlife.

This article first appeared in Lifestyle Block Magazine, and then online at thisNZlife.

This recipe appeared in Lifestyle Block Magazine and is now on thisNZlife.

I inherited a Chinotto tree with this property in the Marlborough Sounds. For the first 5 years I had no idea what it was. The small hard orange fruits were a mystery as they tasted inedible- well to us at least- the wekas like them. They are so bitter and hard, but the sweet orange fragrance was en...

4 recipes to utilise your end-of-summer capsicum bounty (thisnzlife.co.nz).

La Couronne La Couronne Yes we two look similar, but no we are not related. We just happen to have the same body shape, hair, complexion, wear the same types of clothes, and live 5 minutes down the road from each other in the middle of nowhere. Yes we are plump. We love our food and wine. Pl...

Rouen Rouen The train from Paris to Rouen gave us the first instance of the 2 doppelganger dodue (of a certain age and from New Zealand) getting away with something. We had bought 2nd class tickets so duly found a carriage labelled 2nd class on the platform and boarded. We went down with our s...

Paris Yes we two look similar, but no we are not related. We just happen to have the same body shape, hair, complexion, wear the same types of clothes, and live 5 minutes down the road from each other in the middle of nowhere. Yes we are plump. We love our food and wine. Plump and happy. Yes...