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Category: food
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Tiny Pleasures #122: Mum’s Apples
My mum came to visit today, bringing with her a big basket of home grown apples. They’re delicious and crunchy, juicy and sweet, with wonderfully upright stalks. I just ate one. Now I want another. Not because I’m hungry, but because they such a pleasure to eat.
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Tiny Pleasures #117: Cheese Board
A cheese board is always a pleasure. I mean, one cheese is pretty good, but three snuggled up together is a whole other thing. Cheddar, blue and brie: all bases covered.
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Tiny Pleasures #116: Made Up Cake
I found a container of unknown contents in the freezer yesterday. Upon defrosting they revealed themselves to be vintage bananas. Cake is the only logical thing to do with old bananas, so this morning that is precisely what I did. It was all going well until half way through the process I realised my fridge…
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Tiny Pleasures #109: Super Grater
Ah, the blissful sensory pleasure of an excellent kitchen tool. My microplane grater is the best grater I’ve ever had, and I would hazard a guess that few have had one so good. It zests like a wizard, grates the woodiest ginger into a smooth puree, and rains fine curls of parmesan atop a bowl…
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Tiny Pleasures #102: T-Bone Tea Towel
A well-designed tea towel is a beautiful thing. Not only does it dry your dishes and hands, polish your glass and swot flies, but it hangs on the oven rail looking fabulous. My new tea towel is from a fabulously fun New Zealand band I met last weekend, called T-Bone. Fine musicians, great performers, and…
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Tiny Pleasures #98: Tiny Beans
They shouldn’t exist. It’s too late in the season. But the tenacity of the broad bean cannot be overestimated. These tiny beans have done their best to grow into April, but the cold weather is coming so they have been picked. Popped out of their pods, with their shiny mowhawks in vibrant green. They may…
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Tiny Pleasures #93: Passionfruit
Passionfruit are quite reminiscent of large, hairless testicles, but their innards are delicious. Fragrant and fruity with just the right balance of sweet and sour, especially when home grown. I love the sound crackle as the seeds are crunched between my teeth.
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Tiny Pleasures #87: Camping Food
It may not look fancy but a spread of messy camping food hits the spot on the first day away. The long drive is over, tents are up, and the weather forecast looks good. Now we toast a fun weekend to come at the National Folk Festival.
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Tiny Pleasures #81: Baklava & Sauvignon Blanc
Tis flavour match made in heaven and discovered quite by chance. But it’s not really surprising – the acidity and bright citrus fruit flavours of the wine cut through the sticky sweetness of the baklava, the latter balancing it all with butter pastry and nuttiness. Do your taste buds a favour and try it!