Ingredient Herbs

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.”

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.

Balsamic roasted beetroot and orange and thyme roasted carrots

Side dishes on Christmas day are crucial. Ours usually consist of salads and new season Oamaru potatoes but this year I will do something a little more traditional. Tradition doesn’t have to be boring; layering flavours onto simple, fresh vegetables is anything but. If you are using fresh produce, it’s important not to

Tomato and rocket tarts

As a designer I am sensitive to aesthetics, to the way in which the objects and things around me look and feel.  Whether I am designing a product or serving dinner to my flatmates, the way things look are important…

Rocket pesto

Pesto is very versatile both in its uses and in the ingredients with which it is made.  The inspiration for this rocket pesto came when I was pondering what I could use to provide a splash of colour and a…

Lemon basil barbequed fish

In my mind spring is all about fresh ingredients and simplicity. In NZ we have quite a barbeque culture and as soon as Spring hits someone makes the call for the weekend barbeque and weather prevailing people descend with plates…

Lynne Pope’s bread

I have a cookbook, the blank kind in which you write recipes you’ve stumbled upon which are too good to pass by.  My cookbook is old, its cover is beginning to come loose and its spine is cracked and in…

Focaccia with olives, rosemary and lemon

This recipe was originally developed for one of our premium built-in ovens and has become something of a classic down here in Dunedin.  I think half the office would have it in their repertoires!  I have been known to work…

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…