Shocking pink beetroot bread

Bright pink homemade beetroot bread loaf cooling on a wire rack

Shocking pink beetroot bread Do not adjust your screen: this bread really is THAT pink. I’ve been having a little bit of fun in the last couple of weeks, experimenting with adding vegetable purees to bread dough. I told the Small Girl I was going to do a magic trick and waved my ‘wand’ (a… View Post

Treat me: Golden Kiwi Cake

Treat me: Golden Kiwi Cake If you think you’ve had a bad week, spare a thought for New Zealand’s kiwifruit growers. A bacterial disease is slowly, insidiously, infecting crops across the country like something out of a horror movie. Every week at the supermarket I think about those growers and how devastating it must be… View Post

101* ways with a stale baguette

101* ways with a stale baguette When we got back from the West Coast (another nail-biting ride, thank you, Air New Zealand) I opened the freezer and realised that we had nothing to eat. Well, that’s not strictly true. There was some ice cream, a packet of puff pastry, some pork Scotch fillet and about… View Post