by Deborah Hide-Bayne | Jun 8, 2020 | Food-related, Gluten-free, Jam, Lifestyle, Recipe, Sweet, Vegan, Vegetarian
As New Zealand thankfully comes out of lockdown, I’m reflecting back on my COVID-19 experience so far. For me, Level 4 was a badly-needed moment of pause. Whilst the real threat of disease still seemed far off (in fact my little town has never had any cases),...
by Deborah Hide-Bayne | Mar 13, 2017 | Basics, Dairy-free, Food-related, Gardening, Gluten-free, Lifestyle, Puddings-desserts, Recipe, Sweet, Vegan, Vegetarian
A carpet of passion fruit under the vine… the high winds and rain this month have given me a glut of passionfruit to use up and this is the perfect solution! It is sweet but deliciously zingy and the flavour of the passion fruit really comes through. I made enough...
by Deborah Hide-Bayne | Jan 15, 2017 | Dairy-free, Food-related, Gluten-free, Recipe, Sweet, Vegan, Vegetarian
This time of year I find half-bags of dried fruit in the kitchen cupboard left over from various Christmas baking projects… and I am also looking forward to school lunches and hoping I can do a better job of putting healthy stuff in the box… bliss balls...
by Deborah Hide-Bayne | Feb 12, 2016 | Dairy-free, Food-related, Gardening, Gluten-free, Jam, Lifestyle, Recipe, Sweet, Vegan, Vegetarian
My husband just gently pushed half a tree-ripened apricot into my mouth… If you have never eaten tree-ripened fruit then you need to know you are seriously missing out. The taste is incomparible to what you will buy in the supermarket. The apricot tasted almost as...
by Deborah Hide-Bayne | Nov 27, 2015 | Basics, Dairy-free, Food-related, Gluten-free, Kids, Lifestyle, Recipe, Sweet, Travel, Vegan, Vegetarian
When we were down in Christchurch the other day, it was so hot that we had the windows of the car down. Wafts of warm air kept coming into the car with a subtle floral scent… elderflowers! What a beautiful smell… the epitomy of summer. We pulled up on the side of the...
by Deborah Hide-Bayne | Apr 9, 2014 | Gluten-free, Jam, Recipe, Sweet, Vegan, Vegetarian
In the orchard since January, we have been loving the waves of ripening fruit: plums, peaches, pears, nashis, apples, figs, feijoas and persimmons. If my boy, Jack, is hungry, then he runs outside to see what he can find… I was in my friend Briar’s kitchen...
