Soft and Sweet Date Scones
If you follow along on instagram you’ll know this is my go to recipe for sweet scones, it’s just so adaptable. Here are many reasons why this recipe is so adaptable. You can use the following alternative ingredients to make this recipe suit you; You could use...
Mum’s Quick Cheese Rolls
This recipe will make two dozen (a little more than a loaf of sandwich white bread). My mum is Yvonne, and in the winter there would be always be cheese rolls being made on mass in our house. She would make them to have with soup on cold days in the weekend. She...
Hearty Beef Broth Winter Bowl
Winter has arrived in one cold blast overnight. So here is a hearty winter bowl to help warm cold workers, and nourish their bodies to keep them healthy over the long winter months. On farm we all know eating seasonal fresh produce is the most economical and...
Date and Walnut Cake to Feed a Crowd
A moist, rich cake with glorious coffee icing Sometimes when you taste a cake you just have to have the recipe. For one of my followers Kirsty and her mum, who were working in the shearing sheds at the time – this was the case. The farmer’s...
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.