Quick Banana Cake: Perfect for Beginners
Served with either chocolate or lemon icing. It’s a great debate!What flavour icing do you prefer on your banana cake? Chocolate or lemon icing? This moist banana cake is one of my favourite ways to use up old bananas that I have stashed in the freezer or have...
A Simple Hot Cross Bun Recipe (in the bread maker)
A quick efficient way to make a batch of hot cross buns this Easter without all the fuss. I love hot cross buns, although whenever I see a tradiotnal recipe I get intimidated by all the ingredients and steps! Not with this recipe!All you need is a bread maker and a...
One Pot Chocolate Zucchini Brownie
Just another delicious way to use zucchini in your daily cooking. When a sneaky garden zucchini decides to hide under the leaves and grow just a little too generously, you know it’s time to turn it into something irresistibly good. These rich, fudgy chocolate zucchini...
A simple, but tasty Tuna Roulade
This surprisingly easyrecipe was shared with me by Penny Williams. Penny is an incredible inspiring kiwi rural woman who lives near Fairlie in the South Island. She has a very successful women’s and children’s clothing business called Hide and Seek...
HI – I’M PHILIPPA
I am the station cook at Otematata Station in the Waitaki Valley of the South Island, New Zealand. Most days I provide smokos (morning and afternoon tea) and lunches to our staff of shepherds. Some days if they are out on our remote high country blocks I will also prepare a lunch that can be eaten with a cuppa in one hand and their lunch in the other. Read More.