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Edible Garden: Tips for fruit and vegetables

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

It's sometimes hard to know when to dig up your root crops or when to pick fruit. Here's a guide.Dig up potatoes and onions when the plants die down. If you want to hurry onions along, after the bulb has formed, dig carefully...

Blessed be the bakers

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

The unbearable de-lightness of beating. To cream butter and sugar to mousse-like proportions is to dream of rewards within reach.Today, they come in the form of 2-4-6 Biscuits: sugar-coated shortbread studded with lovely little...

Ella Cafe and Lounge , Ponsonby

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +1200

Heaven forbid that I would generalise about the English - some of my best friends are Poms - but I have to say the Professor has some mates from the Old Country who are on occasion given to whingeing.Four of them visited in February...

Fishing: The 17-year itch

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +1200

At this time of year our eardrums are overwhelmed by the rasping, buzzing chorus of cicadas. It goes on and on and on and on. Unending. It comes from the bushes, the tree trunks, the branches. Seemingly everywhere. You can't escape...

Girl Guide biscuits tested after complaints

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:39 +1200

The iconic Girl Guide biscuits are undergoing testing after complaints that this year's batch is not up to standard.Girlguiding chief executive Ruth Teasdale said the product had not been recalled but it looked like there was...

Cafe pair take over biggest Gilmours

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +1200

The largest Gilmours food-wholesaling operation in New Zealand has been sold by Foodstuffs to private owner-operators.Foodstuffs said Gilmours Mt Roskill had been bought by Auckland businesspeople Scott Brown and Jackie Grant,...

MPs to feast on seal

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:40:00 +1200

Canadian MPs will dine on seal meat to show solidarity with seal hunters wrestling with a European Union ban on seal products and the loss of a key market. The parliamentary restaurant lunch tomorrow would "revolve around seal...

'British Classics' made with NZ meat

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:30:00 +1200

Research carried out for British newspaper The Independent has found that food companies are selling products which contain meat from thousands of miles away but labelling them "British" or "traditional".Supermarkets such as...

Slice of life (+recipe)

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

Blimey, the Aussies are at us again. First they claim the pavlova and now Masterchef Australia 's Matt Preston has claimed the good old baked slice is proudly Australian. What the ... ?!I do agree with him, however, that this...

Bad weather thins early oyster harvest

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

Bad weather has put a damper on the start of the Bluff oyster season but it has not stopped Auckland's restaurants and retailers getting them on to plates in the thousands.The season started last week, but although boats got out...

Screen snacks (+recipes)

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200

As you settle in for a star-filled evening watching Hollywood's elite flit down the red carpet, be sure to keep your entourage well-fed with these classy nibbles worthy of a celebrity soiree. With a menu of succulent and