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    Season's eatings

    Autumn is the perfect season to focus on a fresh approach to eating, write the folks at Love Food Hate Waste.

    A bite-sized hit

    A bite-sized hit

    A madeleine is a small French pastry, instantly recognisable by its delicate shell shape, its golden edges and soft buttery inside.

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    Feasting with your eyes

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    Feasting with your eyes

    After Christmas, Easter is Annabel and Rose Langbein's favourite food holiday.

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    Home-made tomato passata

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    Home-made tomato passata

    There’s something deeply satisfying about lining up jars of your own passata, simple, honest and ready to carry you through the cooler months.

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    Savouring in preparation for grape-picking season

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    Savouring in preparation for grape-picking season

    I hope to get in a couple of tastings of Central Pinot Noir in the next few weeks as a sort of precursor to heading up to Bannockburn for harvest myself for a few days.

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    Harnessing the feel-good factor

    Nel Vincencio, of Mind Your Temper, works on creating his trademark colourful dairy-free bon bons...

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    Harnessing the feel-good factor

    On the eve of Easter, award-winning bon bon maker Nel Vincencio returned to Dunedin to show how he makes his dairy-free chocolates.

    New ways with plums and cucumbers

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    New ways with plums and cucumbers

    Helen Graham serves up clever ways to use plums and cucumbers.

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    Oven-roasted corn with chilli lime butter

    Photo: Simon Lambert

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    Oven-roasted corn with chilli lime butter

    Sweet corn is hitting its stride right now. 

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    Corn fritters with bacon, lime cream & hot honey

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    Corn fritters with bacon, lime cream & hot honey

    This corn fritter recipe is easy to make and jazzed up with all the extras you might find at your local cafe but easily put together at home over a long weekend.

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    Riding out cycle

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    Riding out cycle

    A question I’m asked frequently is "how are things in Marlborough"?

    One-pot wonders

    One-pot wonders

    Beautiful things can be made in one pot, pan or tray, United Kingdom food influencer, chef and author Poppy O’Toole says.

    Richly rustic

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    Richly rustic

    Helen Graham serves up veg-forward dishes to celebrate textures and contrasts.

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    Baingan bharta (smoky spiced aubergine)

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    Baingan bharta (smoky spiced aubergine)

    Baingan bharta (smoky spiced aubergine) If you’re making baingan bharta, don’t skip the charring. Roast the aubergines until soft and smoky - that depth...

    Home kitchen where it all begins

    Home kitchen where it all begins

    After a failed attempt at becoming a graphic designer, Anais Ca Dao van Manen realised her passion and focus lay in cooking.

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    This season’s wines tell story of weather-tested vines

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    This season’s wines tell story of weather-tested vines

    NZ Wine sent out a media release this week regarding the grape harvest across NZ.

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    For the love of bread

    Andrea Dudding in her Owaka home where her artisan baking business 2Birds has been born. PHOTO:...

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    For the love of bread

    After travelling the world, Auckland born-and-bred chef Andrea Dudding settled in the small Otago town of Owaka about 10 years ago.

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    Aubergine schnitzel with lemon and yoghurt

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    Aubergine schnitzel with lemon and yoghurt

    Aubergine holds its own beautifully when treated like this.

    Real Mexican at home

    Real Mexican at home

    Growing up in Mexico City was the best food education that money could not buy, Daniella Guevara Munoz says.

    Be a legend — love your leftovers

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    Be a legend — love your leftovers

    The most underrated meal in your house is already in the fridge, write the folks at Love Food Hate Waste.

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    Don't talk rot

    Botrytis cinerea, or "Noble Rot". Photo: Getty Images

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    Don't talk rot

    On the international stage, sales of some of the most famous sweet and fortified wine styles such as Sauternes and Port have seen a significant drop-off.
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