Its Anzac Day today a national day in Australia and New Zealand commemorated every 25th of April in remembrance and honour of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. In this remembrance we will be making some Anzac biscuits a dish that … Continue reading »
Fourth day and you might have some leftover mussels from yesterday, if there is well you can make some fritters out of it but if not feel free to buy some fresh ones. Fritters, frytors or frytos can be sweet (fruit & nuts) or savoury (cheese, fish, vegetables) and history suggests that it existed and … Continue reading »
Whitebait fritters is a dish which is basically an omelette made out of whitebait and eggs. But what is whitebait? Whitebait is a collective term for the immature fish (newly hatched) usually from the species galaxias or inanga, typically harvested when they are between 25 to 50 mm long using a fine mesh. Whitebait is very … Continue reading »
Fish and chips is a very popular dish that originated in the United Kingdom, now a popular take-away food in countries with English origin such as New Zealand, Australia, US, Canada, Scotland and Ireland. A deep fried fish dish which is typically made out of white fish like cod or haddock; commonly it is accompanied … Continue reading »
Peaches and Cream Cheese muffin is a type of muffin flavoured with peach and filled with a soft and warm cream cheese in the middle, this one of my favourite muffin variety. I still remember my first time trying this muffin variety and it was here in New Zealand, it was so unforgettable as every … Continue reading »
Now let’s talk about Kiwi food, the first time I set foot here in New Zealand like any other migrant or tourist one of the first questions you wll be asking is what are the best Kiwi food items or recipes out there and where will I get them? To my surprise most of the … Continue reading »
Steak and Cheese pie is a type of a hand sized savoury pie made out of diced beef and cheese in a flaky pastry. A very popular food item here in New Zealand and in Australia and in fact it is sometimes regarded as a Kiwiana in New Zealand and in Australia it was described as … Continue reading »
The Kiwi burger is a type of burger totally unique to New Zealand, it consists of your normal beef burger ingredients but with the addition of beetroot, pineapple and eggs. I am not sure whether McDonalds had invented this recipe or it was based on an authentic Kiwi Recipe as this was a popular McDonald’s … Continue reading »
This is one of those recipes you see in supermarkets, I always grab one of those on my way out as I am adventurous towards food and want to try something new always. It was so interesting so I gave it a shot with some revisions. In the supermarket flyer it indicated to use a … Continue reading »
This is the first time that we will be using avocados in our salad we are doing this as we had tried it recently when it was served to us in our office Christmas party. To Filipinos this might sound weird as most of us was brought up that avocados are blended with something sweet … Continue reading »
Apologies for those who follows my daily blog posts as I haven’t posted anything for the past 2 days, It was labour weekend here in New Zealand (yes, we have a different date for Labour day, same goes with Father’s day) and we went out for a short weekend trip to Whangarei, Northland and Bay … Continue reading »
This is a variation of the traditional brandy snaps that are popular dessert in UK, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. Brandy snaps are made out of golden syrup, flour, ginger, cream, sugar and butter which then is baked to make it hard and brittle. Now for this recipe instead of the brandy snaps we use … Continue reading »
Pavlova is a type of meringue dessert which sounds like it originated from Russia, but not, it is a Kiwi desert. It sounds Russian as it was named after the Russian ballerina dancer Anna Pavlova to honour her on her tour to Australia and New Zealand during the 1920′s, it is a very popular dish … Continue reading »
