Hopgood’s Slow Roast Lamb recipe
I love it when people like recommendations I make, especially when I encourage people to try a wine they wouldn’t…
Fig Recipe & Wine
We have a couple of fig trees at home and they produce a huge crop each year, we get so…
2020 Nelson Wine Vintage
I was recently reminded of an old Chinese saying ‘may you live in interesting times’. Some people have thought of…
YUM Granola
I first came across YUM Granola back in 2016 and wrote about them not long after I discovered their great…
Mister Karaage – Japanese Fried Chicken
If you love fried chicken then you need to hunt out Kenji Usui and his Mister Karaage caravan. To be…
Sunhouse Chai
Chai has become an incredibly popular drink in recent years, it’s essentially a flavoured tea and when made well is…
Kakariki Olives
I realised recently that while we use a lot of Nelson produced olive oil at home I haven’t actually written…
The Coffee Company
Nelson has a huge number of coffee roasters in the region, and they are all very good but The Coffee…
Motueka Creamery
Last week I wrote about the superb artisan producers of gelato and sorbet, Gelato Roma, however I discovered another producer…










