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a very fine plymouth barred rock hen on a sunny winter's day So you think your chooks aren’t laying well? Maybe they’re not. If it’s winter, hens have got better things to do, like planning their summer holidays and catching up on some reading. It’s no time to be raising chicks. Laying eggs is a daylight sensitive business. Commercial egg … [Read more...]
Winter is the time for a different kind of salad. There’s still lettuce and rocket from the tunnel house but a crunchier combination comes from cabbage, carrot, spring onion and fresh herbs topped with cashews and strips of beef. I used meat left over from a slow-cooked beef shin. Processing robust raw ingredients, such as carrots and cabbage, … [Read more...]
It takes a certain special sort of friend to know that when you say 'bah, humbug, I don't need another recipe book, there are plenty of recipes in the world, I don't use all the ones I've got' what you really mean is 'I love recipe books most amongst all books, I have many and I refer to them daily (if not more frequently), I don't feel I … [Read more...]
Recipe reproduced from 'A Treasury of New Zealand Baking' with permission from Tina Duncan. I didn't use it to feed shearers or as a wedding cake but it was welcomed for morning tea by a visiting neighbour, served for dessert with boysenberry ice cream and kept hunger at bay for a squad of clay target shooters on a wet Saturday afternoon. Half the … [Read more...]
