ODT

Food & WineAugust 12

Recipe: Sophie's pulled pork burgers

I recently went on a sibling date with my brother in Auckland. Basically, I bribed him with burgers.

Food & WineApril 24

Student food blog: Baked rice pudding

With the temperature having dropped around 8degC over the course of Easter, I feel we have truly entered the pudding season.

Food & WineApril 9

Student food blog: Chicken and bacon burgers

It took me four years of living in Dunedin to get to Fergburger in Queenstown.

Food & WineApril 9

Student food blog:Lemonade date scones

Hello strangers! I haven't forgotten about you. However, it seems I have gotten a little caught up in the "real world''.

Food & WineJanuary 8

Student food blog: Chocolate mocha cake with festive liqueur-spiked ganache

I hate how Christmas, barbecue and beersie season coincides with bikini and beach season. Not ideal.

Food & WineDecember 11

Student food blog: Raspberry and white chocolate brownie

I figured that for my last two posts of the year I should end on something sweet.

Food & WineDecember 5

Student food blog: Deep-dish pizza

I'd never had proper home-made deep-dish pizza until recently. I think I had tried some terrible fast-food version at some point but the idea of eating what is essentially a pie filled with cheese and processed meats frightened me.

Food & WineDecember 3

Student food blog: Fish butties

It was a cooler than usual spring evening, periodic showers and an unimpressed-looking sky.

Food & WineNovember 21

Student food blog: Sophie's French summer sandwiches

My paternal grandparents retired to a 400-year-old stone house in the south of France. Every three to five years from the age of 8 Mum and Dad packed us all off and we took a family holiday there for a few weeks to see the family.

Food & WineNovember 13

Student food blog: Fish tacos

I have just woken up from a two-day food coma.

Food & WineOctober 25

Student food blog: Asparagus, feta and basil pesto tart

Summer is coming . . . That means our vege shops and supermarkets are being infiltrated by glorious spears of asparagus!

Food & WineOctober 25

Student food blog: Pesto and asparagus spaghetti

Uh oh, looks like I have become obsessed with pesto, asparagus and spaghetti. Please forgive me. I will change. I promise. Next week will be different.

Food & WineOctober 23

Student food blog: Pesto and courgette spaghetti

Recently I received a "we're sorry you got conjunctivitis in both eyes leading to the bursting of blood vessels making you look like a hideous zombie'' care package from my parents.

Food & WineOctober 2

Student food blog: Bagels

OK, so I know this isn't a meal recipe. But it is a recipe for what could become the basis of a meal. BLTs, salmon and cream cheese . . . the combinations are endless. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Food & WineSeptember 27

Student food blog: Spaghetti and meatballs

I used to be afraid of pasta: Pasta equals carbs. Carbs equals calories. And calories make you fat. Yet somehow I could justify two pieces of cake. And cake CLEARLY does not contain carbs (not).

Food & WineSeptember 18

Student food blog: Paella

Paella. Like in tortilla, the ‘l's are pronounced with a ‘ya' sound. So ‘pie-yay-ya'.

Food & WineSeptember 12

Student food blog: Rachel's Yankee pancakes

Pancakes for dinner is legit, right?

Food & WineSeptember 4

Student food blog: Meatball, leek and tomato orzo

It's that time of year again: leek season.

Food & WineAugust 28

Student food blog: Sort-of-but-probably-not-very-authentic falafel pita pockets and hummus

Chickpeas are my new obsession. Home-made hummus, falafel, chickpea curries. They are everywhere in my food.

Food & WineAugust 21

Student food blog: Minted pea and feta fritters

Apparently I am on a diet (tell that to the cookies I just baked, the chocolate tart I made on Sunday and the cookie dough balls I keep on hand for cookie-related emergencies stocked in the freezer.)

Food & WineAugust 15

Student food blog: Moroccan-inspired lamb pizzas

I am sitting here for the second night in a row wondering for how many more nights I could eat this; my new favourite dinner.

Food & WineAugust 8

Student food blog: Roast vegetable frittata

I thought I would be in the lab all day every day this week working on my honours project, so I was going to need something I could have for both lunch and dinner, and be filling and nutritious at the same time. Frittata was my answer.

Food & WineAugust 1

Student food blog: Individual spanakopita

Guess what? I made another pastry-based dish. Surprise, surprise. I told you to prepare for the onslaught.

Food & WineJuly 24

Student food blog: Chicken, pumpkin, kumara and feta filos

Remember how I was a bit of a risotto fiend earlier in the year? I fear now I am turning into a bit of a purveyor of pastry.

Food & WineJuly 16

Student food blog: Mince and cheese pies

Hello! Sorry about my absence of post last week. I was stuck in Hawaii . . . most unfortunate, I know. I was "dragged'' there by my parents. We spent 10 days in 35degC sunshine and snorkelled with sea turtles.

More than mince