This salad instinctively came together as a response to the contents of my pre-Christmas holiday fridge: a gift of some venison, spinach leaves needing to be eaten, a handful of exorbitantly-priced new season cherries, and a bunch of asparagus bought because at any moment it will disappear from the vegetable aisle never to be seen again (until…
Category: Gluten Free
Fruity Christmas mince
The ridiculousness of eating heavy and rich Christmas food in the midst of a *fingers crossed* balmy New Zealand summer is just one of the those odd little incongruities that we have grown to love as Kiwis. Though we’ve adopted our own approach to Christmas, lightening and freshening things up by using our plentiful summer…
Roasted rhubarb & strawberry crème fraîche fool with pistachio florentine crumb
Up until recently I lived in an inner city apartment in Wellington. Minutes from Moore Wilson’s, it actually took longer to make coffee at home than it did to walk to Customs and have infinitely better one made for me. The convenience and thrill of inner city living was shattered by the November earthquake. Our apartment was…
Fried sage leaves with gurnard
Barely a recipe this one, to be honest with you. But fried sage leaves are something that I love to eat and make often. If you grow sage, you probably have a metric shit tonne of the stuff, or if you buy some sage for a recipe, you’re bound to be left with some to…
Nigella’s steak with lemon, thyme & garlic
I love Nigella. But let me qualify that by saying that I love old Nigella; I’m ignoring every cook book from Nigellisima onwards. Old Nigella is good Nigella. How to Eat, Nigella’s first cook book, lives beside my bed and whenever I feel the need to gently soothed to sleep by Nigella’s distinctively descriptive assertive tone,…
Fish tacos with mango salsa, smoky aioli & slaw
I bloody love tacos. Effortlessly gluten free, they’re the perfect thing to make to feed a crowd or just a couple of humans on a Tuesday night. If you don’t have a tortilla press and like me, you consider tacos to be a bloody exceptional time, I highly recommend investing in a tortilla press. Yes, they are a ‘single-use…
Eggplant parmigiana
Making up for a lack of gluten with cheese is pretty much my approach to life these days. My version of eggplant parmigiana skips out the step of coating the eggplant in breadcrumbs which reeks of effort anyway. Instead the eggplant is baked until browned and tender, then sandwiched between layers of chilli and lemon infused tomato sauce,…
Asparagus in browned butter with shallots, capers & parsley
Another contribution to the ongoing seasonal series of, ‘It’s spring, so asparagus with everything until I never want to eat it again (until next spring)’. Asparagus in browned butter with shallots, capers & parsley is spring-time dinner perfection with pan-fried fish, some roasted kumara, and a mound of wilted greens. Asparagus in browned butter with shallots, capers &…
Baked ricotta gnudi in roasted eggplant & cherry tomato sauce
Gnudi are delicious. Of course they are: they have two types of cheese in them. Gnudi are traditionally boiled in hot, salted water followed by an optional flash in a hot frying pan to crisp up the outsides; all very well and very delicious but a little bit involved. To simplify matters, I have oven-baked…
Polenta, silverbeet & feta bake
Yotam Ottolenghi: I love the guy but his recipes can be exhausting. So many ingredients! So many herbs to wash and chop! So many spices to toast and grind! This sort of bullsh*t usually results in cookbooks becoming consigned to the bedtime reading pile, never again to make it back to the kitchen. But Ottolenghi…
Roasted white chocolate & miso blondie
On the eve of my glutard diagnosis at the peak of (or descent into) my gluten grief, my sister brought me a tub of Duck Island roasted white chocolate and miso ice cream. Insanely delicious, this tub of gluten free gold restored my faith that maybe there was life after gluten. Featuring the well-established combination of salty, unami, and sweet, the roasted white chocolate…
Herbed fish cakes, charred pineapple salsa & slaw
A bowl comprised of individually prepared delicious things is one of my favourite ways to eat, as evidenced by the fact that my Katherine Smyth ceramic bowls are pretty much never sitting unused in the cupboard. Herbed fish cakes, charred pineapple salsa & slaw is currently one of my favourite things to eat from a bowl. It’s fresh, light and…
cake for breakfast 