About Guest

We are excited to introduce our guest blogger profile. Here we will share recipes from past members of the blog team, friends, family, colleagues, and you the reader (watch this space). We thought it would be a great way to showcase the beautiful recipes from those outside of the blog team whose culinary exploits inspire us.

Posts by Guest

	Courgette soup During the working week Paul is a very skilled (and handy to know) technician in our Dunedin office.  Each week he commutes from the Deep South, where he spends his weekends cooking his way through culinary mags and tending to his vast vegetable garden.  When asked to share a recipe with the Our Kitchen team, [...] More
	Pork, prawn and chive dumplings As the provider of this months theme it was only fitting that I post a recipe from my small, (but growing!), list of recipes. At the very start of my teenage years I was removed from my precious little world in Hamilton, New Zealand and taken by my parents to live in Shanghai, China. My [...] More
	At home in a foreign land As Our Kitchen’s marketing executive I was very excited to be asked to contribute a monthly theme idea and as a keen traveller “At home in a foreign land” seemed an obvious choice. I have always found while travelling that some places just seem to fit with me, I feel completely at home with [...] More
	Easter loaf The names of our holidays have a built-in memory all their own. In English, the word Easter preserves the name of a pagan goddess, hinting at the pre-Christian roots of all the eggy fertility symbolism. In Hungarian, the word for Easter—Húsvét (pronounced ‘HOOSH-veight’)—encapsulates the centrality of food to this religious holiday, serving as further proof [...] More
	Tropical eton mess This is another of Sarah’s beautiful recipes.  Serve it up over Easter weekend and your guests will love you! Named after the school of Eton, this is usually a delicious mash-up of yummy meringue, berries and cream.  I have added an extra twist by making it tropical, and if made 20 minutes in advance, the flavours [...] More
	Orange blossom marshmallow This recipe comes to us from Sarah, one of the founders of this blog who sadly no longer works here at Fisher & Paykel. Sarah is a fantastic cook and in her spare time makes and sells beautiful handmade chocolates. Read Sarah’s thoughts on her recipe below: More
	Versatile Quiche Here is another one of Karen’s delicious recipes – this time for a simple quiche. Her suggestion: Double this recipe, bake it in a rectangular tin (approx 20cm x 25cm), serve half for dinner and freeze the rest in one-person-sized portions to pick up as you run out the door in the morning. More
	Onion tart with goats’ cheese and thyme As promised, here is Karen’s recipe for onion and goats’ cheese tarts made with her Balsamic onion marmalade: “Ready-made pastry and stored balsamic onion marmalade make these impressive tarts very quick and easy. Spoon the onion mixture into baked pastry cases and melt tangy goats’ cheese on top.” More
	Balsamic onion marmalade This is another of our former colleague Karen’s fail-safe recipes. Later in the week we will be posting her delicious onion and goats’ cheese tart recipe made with this marmalade, but in the meantime this makes a great pantry staple. More
	Stollen This recipe comes to us from Karen, a former colleague and a great baker. Currently she is somewhere in the UK enjoying a white Christmas and catching up with family, but last Christmas she made this delicious fruit bread for the office and we are now all BIG fans! More
	Truffles These truffle recipes come to us from Sophie (a.k.a. Fabulous Sophie (because she is)), our marketing guru Sydney-side.  When I first started at Fisher & Paykel, Sophie was based down here in Dunedin, and she always brought a little ray of sunshine (and glamour) into the office.  I have fond memories of these truffles made [...] More
	Christmas wine soup As promised, Balint has provided us with two traditional Hungarian Christmas recipes this month; Christmas wine soup and Poppy seed bread pudding (Mákos guba). For those of you who don’t know, Balint is our technical writer and he has shared with us previously his beautiful photographs and story ‘Eating tour of Hungary’. More
	Poppy seed bread pudding (Mákos guba) And here is Balint’s second recipe… “Pronounced “MAH-kosh GOO-bah”, this no-fuss Christmas dessert combines simplicity with Hungarians’ love of consuming poppy seeds in quantities that would be considered bordering on the illegal in some other countries… More
	Kerstkransjes (Dutch Christmas cookies) Annie is an industrial designer down here in Dunedin.  She has been with the team for a couple of years now, bringing to the group her wicked sense of humour and (when we are very lucky) some delicious Dutch treats.  In another life Annie ran a bar, and worked in catering, so she is more [...] More
	Eating tour of Hungary This post is from a colleague of ours Balint who is our technical writer and a great home cook. Balint also helps out by proofreading most of our blog entries (and he will probably proof this intro as well!), he is too nice to use a red marker pen to show where we have erred [...] More
	Margherita and mediterranean pizzas Pizza is an easy throw together meal that can feed the masses or make a feast for one. When considering what to cook for office favourites one of our customer interface engineers piped in with pizza and everyone in the blog team gave a resounding yes. More
	Creamy bacon carbonara This recipe was kindly given to us by Pete, one of our lovely engineers and without a doubt F&P’s finest barrista!  Today is Pete’s first day back at work after 5 weeks away in Europe.  This morning I got a brief run-down on how his trip went, however I am yet to interrogate him about [...] More
	Lemon and yoghurt cake This recipe is from Laura-Daisy who looks after refrigeration performance in Product Development. Laura is an accomplished rower and to look at her, you wouldn’t think a sugar-laden treat has ever passed her lips. But on the contrary, she loves to bake and workmates birthdays see her bringing in her More
	Chocolate & courgette cake I have been at Fisher & Paykel for over 2 years now.  I am one of seven industrial designers here in the studio in Auckland, and one of just two females.  Simone is my female counterpart and the only designer to contribute a recipe to this month’s theme, Office Favourites (the boys were nothing short [...] More
	Pickled onions My grandparents were a great team when it came to preserves. Granddad was a skilled and very prolific gardener and Nana could turn anything that wasn’t used fresh into wonderful jams, pickles, chutneys and sauces. This is their recipe for pickled onions, which were made and stored for a couple of months to be brought [...] More
	Spicing up winter Generally I find that by the middle of winter, some of the romance of crisp frosty mornings and the excitement of first snowfall and new winter coats have passed. Winter starts to drag—the days are short, the skies grey, and nights long. There is a cold that creeps in, and the best way to banish [...] More
	Thai chicken salad This post deserves a special introduction. It is our first guest blog post. Its author, Sarah Woollett, played an important role in the realisation of this project, contributing advice, tasty recipes and unwavering encouragement. Sarah is an incredibly competent and knowledgable cook and here in the studio we were lucky More
	Parkin This recipe was written by a former colleague of ours Karen O’Neill. Karen has moved on from Fisher & Paykel after six years as the product evaluator for cooking products. Her knowledge and experience were invaluable—we certainly learnt a lot sharing the cooking lab with Karen, and her English plumb and laugh are sorely missed [...] More