Trendy Health Soups Cooking has become incredibly confusing for us self-anointed experts. I can’t begin to imagine how you all cope with the avalanche of alternative and health narrative-driven confusion recipes and post-modern industrial ingredients. Once tofu was the go-to meat, fish, vegan protein alternative. Remember the days when
Quiches, Torte, Pies Quiches, Torts and Pies have been around since chickens were laying eggs, man discovered that rennet hardened cheese and learnt to harvest and grind flour for bread and, of course, pie crusts. For me the ultimo in quiches or in this case torte is Chef Giuliano Bugiallis
Major Maori leaders have thrown in their lot with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Anti-Zionist (‘I’m not an Anti-Semite’) political and social activists who apparently have a very strong following amongst New Zealand journalists and mainstream media news sites, as well as within the Greens and NZ Labour parties.
How can a polity have separate military and political wings when the political wing signs the cheques, signs off on military strategies, appoints and pays the military leaders and gives the orders to open fire or cease fire? If Israeli political leaders – as the ultimate authority that sends the Israeli
New Zealand (or is it Aotearoa now?) is increasingly finding itself out of step with the rest of the Western World with regard to Freedom and Democracy. The latest round of violence between the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organisation/armies and the state of Israel has sadly shown how
Garden of Eden Cheesecake From childhood memories, Mum’s baked cheesecake used to be for my siblings and me a fanciful dream, a cake dream that only came a few times a year. Our mother Hinda used to make the same baked cheesecake for the family four times a year
This Monday my wife and I were just finishing jazzing ourselves up to head off to a wedding in nearby Bet Shemesh when the air raid warning sirens started wailing. As protocol suggests we went downstairs to our home bomb shelter and waited the requisite ten minutes just to be
Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, was named after Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, the very same personality that gave this dish its identity, the acclaimed beef Wellington. The similarity ends there. Beef Wellington is considered internationally the height of culinary cooking, while Wellington NZ by all
Part 1. Napoleon Cake/Vanilla Slice There are many types of traditional pastry, shortcrust pastry, choux pastry, but none of them as versatile and decadent as mille feuille (thousand sheets/pages), better known in the English speaking kitchen as puff pastry. Appearing in gastronomic literature in France in the 1600s,
Hamin/Cholent is one of my favourite dishes for winter and as winter is kicking in down there it should be a good one for your cookbook. This dish is a really long cooking stew (12 plus hours) full of goodness, flavours and aromas, perfect any time of year but
Lahma Bi Ajeen! Yah what? As promised in my last post, I am diving back into the Middle East and dusting off another obscure dish to whet your appetites with. The Ancient Kingdom of Aram is mentioned in the Old Testament, a kingdom that flourished around the same time as
A lot of languages sound better than English. English in all of its multiple colloquial forms seems less romantic/musical and not as pleasant to the average ear as Latin-based languages. It appears it has taken on board a little too much from the Angles and Saxons from the 6th
A lot has happened over the last year, explanations are scarce and credible summations as to what, why and when are unbelievably hard to come by. As Winston Churchill once said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. The cynicism shown by world leaders throughout this crisis knows no
From Piscador to Sephardi Kitchen Traditions As we all know, the Spanish (Sephardi) have very clear titles for the ones that willingly participate in bloodletting at the bull ring. Matadors, picadors and toreadors all have their highly skilled roles fancy hats and costumes with some attracting more girls and accolades
Mixed Nuts and Chocolate Marquise This is one of those super tasty chocolate deliriums that you can’t resist, just can’t believe how tasty it was, but wish you never ate it. Even on passover after brushing the matzah crumbs from the table cloth, a meal isn’t complete
It’s that Passover / Pessach / Spring Cleaning / Bondage and Freedom / Bad Food time of year. Threatened? I am. Its two weeks before Passover, everyone up here in this frenetic slice of paradise has launched into their manic cleaning and cooking of unusually tasteless foods for one of the two biggies
