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...
Honey’d Pears
We are so spoilt for fruit in the summer months here, that when Autumn comes we are still craving sweet fruit. We have a beautiful old house at the backyards which has a few scraggly pear trees. This year however none fruited and I was disappointed. So when a friend...
Quick Salmon Quiche
I know this a contentious issue in most farming households. Apparently real men don’t eat quiche! Even though a bacon and egg pie is acceptable – a quiche however is considered a sin. It doesn’t mean you can’t not make it though, and I’m sure...
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.