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Helloooooo! Isn’t this weather outrageous, it really is starting to feel like the seasons have changed, (yesterday I even went for my first swim, brief but fabulous) long may it last – I don’t know about you, but the idea that summer, Christmas and the end of 2020 are not far away is pretty bloody appealing! What a year right? For me it has been huge…moving house, becoming editor of dish magazine, and publishing my second cookbook, Stuck Together (available via the shop tab above). All with lockdowns and my sons (can’t call them men/boys any more…they are totally grown up!) moving in with me ..read more

‘Cos everyone needs a curry at least once during lockdown! For this one I have teamed up with my mates at Silver Fern Farms to create a super-easy slow-cooked beef curry, using their delicious Beef Brisket. I don’t know what it is about curries – they just seem like the ultimate, tasty, belly-filling delicious answer to the lockdown blues. I’ve made this one pretty flexible, given trips to the supermarket can be such a drag at the moment. You just need a basic paste to begin with – mine has onion, chilli, garlic and ginger which make a damn fine start, then its just a matter of adding a select ..read more

Goooood morning and welcome to my Beef Brisket extravaganza…but first, crikey, life is a constant changing beast isn’t it? When I first moved into my new house in May last year, I thought of it as my ‘single-chick’ abode, small and easy-care, close to great bars and restaurants etc etc. It was bloody perfect while I got my feet under the desk at my new job as ed at dish (best job ever btw). Any waaaaay, a few months later the delicious Pog moved up to Auckland for four months for an internship and some rent-relief, and from the start of 2020 my darling Hoob moved in too, having spent some tim ..read more