Angela Redfern, owner of Ripe Delicatessen in Auckland, found her customers asking for her recipes, so she decided to publish them and has now produced
Ripe Recipes (Beatnik Publishing). The recipes for salads, soups, dips, braises, rice, pulses and grains, preserves, biscuits and luscious cakes and desserts are arranged seasonally. There are also sections on topics such as dressings, salads, antipasto, greens, and slaws. A favourite of mine is kushari, a comforting Egyptian dish of spiced rice and lentils topped with a spicy tomato sauce.
The Otago Daily Times has five copies of Ripe Recipes to give away. To enter the draw for one, write your name, address and daytime phone number on the back of an envelope and send it to Ripe Recipes, ODT Editorial Features, Response Bag 500011, Dunedin, or email playtime@odt.co.nz with ripe recipes in the subject line, to arrive before Tuesday, March 24
