Food & Wine

Tiny cakes tasty and easy-bake

Tiny cakes tasty and easy-bake

Not making a Christmas cake? These little beauties fill the gap admirably and don’t take long to make up and bake.

Regaining favour

The red grape malbec is a native of France, where it is best known as one of the "so-called" Bordeaux varieties.

Smashed potatoes, sage and onions

Smashed potatoes, sage and onions

This is a fantastic way to cook the potatoes for Christmas. You can have them prepared beforehand and finish them off on the day.

Furkey - a vegan take on the Christmas roast

Chef Flip Grater developed the furkey recipe about three years ago. Photo: Supplied / Greater Good

Furkey - a vegan take on the Christmas roast

A vegan deli in Christchurch has pumped out nearly 2000 'Furkeys' this year, in response to growing demand for plant-based options for the Christmas lunch and dinner.

Taking the sunshine outside

The tomatoes are ripening, writes Nigel Slater, and that can mean only one thing — it’s time to take dinner outside.

Nichol's Garden Centre’s banoffee porridge

Nichol's Garden Centre’s banoffee porridge

Ask a Chef reveals the secrets of those superb dishes you ate in cafes and restaurants and wanted to try yourself.

Fungi and mould can be toxic, beneficial or just a nuisance

Fungi and mould can be toxic, beneficial or just a nuisance

Mould on your cheese may not always be bad. Charmian Smith finds out what's OK and what's not.

Everybody can cook

Tell chef Colin Fassnidge you cannot cook and he will not believe you.

A taste for Beaujolais

I recently attended a tasting of French wines from a specialist French wine importer based in Auckland.

Global flavours, local ingredients

As the turmoil of Covid-19 continues to swirl globally, here in our little corner of the world it is time to celebrate our wonderful food professionals. Rebecca Fox talks to Queenstown chef Corey Hume.

Grate potatoes

Grate potatoes

Two dishes — one savoury, one sweet — whose scatterings of herbs celebrate summer. Nigel Slater shares his recipes for potato cake and apricots in mint syrup.

Morning Magpie caramel slice

Morning Magpie caramel slice

Ask a Chef reveals the secrets of those superb dishes you ate in cafes and restaurants and wanted to try yourself.

Festive treats

With Christmas just around the corner, now is a wonderful time to make a few new recipes to share with family and friends or to have up your sleeve for an edible gift, writes Steph Peirce.

Delicious and memorable

Mother and daughter Julie and Ilaria Biuso are sharing their "best-evers" in Shared Kitchen, Real Food from Scratch.

Elderflower soda

This year certainly is looking like a good one for the elderflowers. The blooms are large, white and fragrant and perfect for foraging.

Critic's scathing 'find a new hobby' email to winemaker

Dr Siouxsie Wiles says a little more patience is needed over the next two weeks. Photo: Getty Images

Critic's scathing 'find a new hobby' email to winemaker

A storm is brewing between a winemaker and a critic who lambasted a North Canterbury pinot noir, which he tried at a Dunedin restaurant, saying it was the "worst pinot noir he has tried in years".

Camp fare combos

This year will go down in history as a year without precedent - an annus horribilus for many. Mark Henderson recommends some wines to enjoy at the campsite this Christmas.