Ground Culinary Centre

29/06/2024

Matariki celebration tonight with a cheats hangi and food representing each star. Started with oysters off the beach, local Salmon and gurnard escabeche for Waita. Foraged watercress for Waiti. Tupuarangi represented with chicken in the hangi and it flavoured with matipo, kawakawa and tarata.
And from the ground- kumara, yams and potato on pork and lamb in the hangi.
for Tupuanuku. Feeling replete and thankful for good friends, and ancestors.

03/03/2024

Tomato harvest time. So here is my recipe for Lazy Person's Passata.

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26/12/2023

Yay, cherry season
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Easy ways to turn the summer cherry glut into Christmas decadence. Words: Jenny Garing When you’re lucky enough to live in a cherry bowl like Marlborough, December is the time when these lovely summer fruits become daily fixtures on the table. We just can’t get enough of them. I prefer the darke...