I was scrolling my insta feed this morning and saw Jamie Oliver had posted a recipe for ricotta and parmesan fritters – he had my attention immediately. My mind wandered to the fridge where we had freshly made ricotta, we didn’t have parmesan but there was an array of other cheeses to choose from. I...

The zucchini’s, or courgettes if you’re that way inclined, are going cray cray in the garden at the moment. We’ve been pulling some mammoth ones out recently and we think marinating before cooking is the business. We had this for breakfast with homemade halloumi and a bunch of salad greens. How We Made It Marinate...

      The more time I spend in New Zealand the more I come to realise that ginger is a big thing here, especially in sugary treats. I thought it was just a Jesse thing, but no – it seems to be a Kiwi thing. Just like not wearing shoes. Shoes, it seems are...

Breakfast around here usually consists of eggs + salad + a meaty/fishy protein. Today wax had the genius idea of frying up some venison salami. The venison from this salami is caught by wax’s dad, he’s into deer hunting. The off cuts from these great beasts are taken to the local salami producer BASECAMP, and turned...

Tuesday is Cheese Day in the C + W kitchen. We have a weekly delivery of organic, raw milk from Right Choice Live Milk who hail from the Waikato. We have upped our order next week for our first attempt at a hard cheese… a much longer wait before tasting. This week we (well, really...