Roast lamb with cumin and fresh mint
Back in 2005 Nigel Slater, an English chef, spent a year cooking and eating with seasonal produce. Out of that experience he wrote a cook book – The Kitchen Diaries. The book is broken down …
Year: 2010
Ask the Butcher iPhone App
As a relatively new iPhone owner I have a habit of downloading apps that will either provide entertainment, or provide me with something useful. I’m yet to download any recipe apps but I did spy …
Roast spare ribs with toasted garlic
I received a beautiful book for a significant birthday back in September. Rôtis: Roasts for every day of the week by Stéphane Reynaud. The photography by Frédéric Lucano is sumptuous and mouth-watering. Monday is roast …
Kashmiri lamb curry
I’ve been watching Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution – the final episode aired on TVNZ last week. Set in Huntington, West Virginia, Jamie tries to turn the school lunch program away from processed and sugar-rich food …
Finalists chosen for best sausage
The 2010 Great New Zealand Sausage Competition has revealed the nation’s top sausages. After two days of intense judging, the 450 entries in the contest have been whittled down to less than twenty supreme finalists. …
Butchery Bledisloe Challenge set down
Five of New Zealand’s best butchers will face off against five of the best Australians in an inaugural Trans-Tasman test match next March. Nominations are now open as Retail Meat New Zealand tries to locate …
Mastering man food: how to cook bacon properly
It’s not often I come across sites that dedicate themselves so wonderfully to the dying art of traditional ways of doing things. The Art of Manliness is a site that is keeping the old ways …
Ray McVinnie’s Meatloaf with olive and onion gravy
More and more people are asking me for meatloaf recipes. There are two on the Meateaters site already (here and here)but both of these probably err on the traditional mince and grated carrot side of …
Burmese pork curry
The Visa Wellington on a Plate festival is over for another year – this is a cuisine event that promotes food and restaurants in greater Wellington. As part of the promotion, organised by Positively Wellington …
Lady Gaga wears a dress made of meat
I love meat but I have never considered making a suit out of the stuff. For me meat is strictly for eating. Not so in the world of show-business. Lady Gaga attended the MTV Video …