by Debs | Apr 17, 2017 | Lifestyle, The Coromandel, NZ, Travel
I feel very lucky to live on the Coromandel Peninsula, here in New Zealand. Destination Coromandel, our local Regional Tourism Organisation, has produced some amazing short films featuring different parts of the Peninsula. Here is the one for the Northern Peninsula...
by Debs | Mar 13, 2017 | Basics, Dairy-free, Food-related, Gardening, Gluten-free, Lifestyle, Puddings-desserts, Recipe, Sweet, Vegan, Vegetarian
A carpet of passion fruit under the vine… the high winds and rain this month have given me a glut of passionfruit to use up and this is the perfect solution! It is sweet but deliciously zingy and the flavour of the passion fruit really comes through. I made enough...
by Debs | Dec 16, 2016 | Food-related, Lifestyle, Savoury, The Coromandel, NZ
If you are out there catching snapper this summer, why not keep your fish frames and use them to make delicious stock or soup? To make stock: Add 3-4 fish frames and any other fish offcuts to a big pot. Add a roughly chopped onion, a roughly chopped carrot, some...
by Debs | Nov 18, 2016 | Food-related, Lifestyle, The Coromandel, NZ
There are a number of new eating options in Coromandel Town this summer. I am aiming to get round as many of them as I can and give you my views (terrible job I know, but someone has to volunteer for this sort of thing!) The first review is of Liz’s Kitchen...
by Debs | Aug 12, 2016 | Lifestyle, The Coromandel, NZ
Wow! What a busy Auckland Food Show… these are the photos taken of the calm before the storm… 30,088 people came this year over four days! And ‘hello’ to all the new friends I made… I had some truly interesting conversations and met lots of...
by Debs | Jun 13, 2016 | Food-related, Lifestyle, The Coromandel, NZ, Travel
Some days come fully-formed, perfect clear blue skies, one ‘out the box’, as they say here in Aotearoa. Last Friday was one such day. It’s hard to believe but that day’s work assignment was to do a tour of Coromandel craft breweries with NZ Foodfinder’s delightful...
