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Baby Carrot, Heirloom Tomato and Pea Salad

February 2, 2021 No Comments

Recipe by Cassandra Heneghan

one delicious dressing two summer salads

February 28, 2020 3 Comments

This year my goal for my vege garden is to get a good grasp on sequential planting. Since I first decided to try my hand at growing my own veges my gardening ability has come along in leaps and bounds mostly through trial and error and lots of advice from all the friendly folk who have gone before me. Still as beautiful and as perfect as my 6 heads of brocolli may have been, I just can’t do brocolli every night of the week.

Crab cakes with herb salad

January 29, 2016 No Comments

We have been back at work nearly one month and after a day in the office, my evenings are a balance of fresh air and spending a little time in the kitchen. I say little because my weeknight dinners are always simple, they are colourful salads with the addition of seasonal fruit, a handful of nuts or seeds and chicken, venison or fish, flashed in a pan or on the grill

Roasted pesto chicken and harvest grape salad

March 9, 2015 No Comments

Just around the corner from my place on the Otago peninsula is a lovely little awning tied to a tree which shelters two large chilly bins and a cardboard box. Every day the owner of the property behind lovingly fills the bins with a variety of her beautiful organic produce and homemade preserves and leaves an honesty box for payment.

Caesar salad

October 28, 2014 No Comments

I read a blog recently which commented that the Caesar salad is the poster food for dining mediocracy, every laminated A4 menu is likely to contain a substandard version and you can always add chicken for an extra $5

Chicken salad

October 14, 2014 No Comments

Vegan food is not something that comes naturally to me (how do you milk an almond???). My exposure to it was certainly limited growing up in Hamilton, one of the livestock capitals of the world. But a vegetarian flatmate and the lunch special at the Curry Pot (Naan, rice, raita, a chicken curry and a vegetarian curry for $9.90!) have shaken my ideals… “How does the vegetarian curry taste better than the chicken one?”

Saag Aloo pie

September 9, 2014 No Comments

Becky works alongside me as one of our cooking product evaluators and she never fails to come up with new and inventive ways to test our cooking products. Her passion for cooking equates to a lot of delicious ‘engineer feed’ coming out of the lab so we asked her to whip up a favourite for Our Kitchen.

Rich’s 3 salads

September 5, 2014 No Comments

To celebrate the halfway point of my first Dunedin winter, I decided to celebrate with an impromptu team dinner – 3 different salads made up this meal, but each of these could easily be transformed into sides or main dishes on their own.

Prawn cocktails

March 4, 2014 1 Comment

This time of year is all about eating with friends and eating outdoors. During these warmer months, I’m choosing recipes which allow me to relax and spend time with the people we have over, not trapped in the kitchen. The success to this is finding the right balance between food which can be prepared in advance and fresh food

Courgette (zucchini), lemon and feta salad

February 10, 2014 4 Comments

I am all about raw food at the moment. I have recently decided to try and seriously reduce the amount of sugar going into my diet. Come mid-morning you are now more likely to see me snacking on raw carrots and broccoli, whilst sipping water or a green tea, which is a far cry from my snacks prior to Christmas (Coca-Cola and some chocolate anyone?)

Roasted beetroot and feta salad

October 4, 2013 6 Comments

I have wanted to post this recipe for about 6 months; but knowing the sweet in savoury theme had been planned, and how well this recipe fits into the theme, I decided to hold out. I’ve made this salad several times in the office, as an accompaniment to some evening meals and it has been a success. I say ‘salad’, I’m not sure the ratio of deliciousness to leaves means it can officially be classed as a salad

Layered vegetarian couscous salad

February 8, 2013 4 Comments

Two days ago it was Waitangi Day here in NZ; a public holiday to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The weather was beautiful and so we thought what better way to spend a public holiday than at our local beach

Rice, orange & black olive salad

December 18, 2012 No Comments

Inspiration for this salad came from a wee gem of a book which I picked up at a book fair several years ago held in a great old hall attached to the Anglican Church down the road from us. I recall wandering down on a lazy Saturday morning and as I entered into the cavernous space the temperature dropped a few degrees