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Lemon Curd Crumble Muffins

This is taking the humble muffin and kicks it up a notch using some fresh NZ lemons. This recipe uses both the zest and juice of the lemons so nothing is wasted, you’d be surprised how much great flavour you can get out of the zest. The lemon curd recipe makes about twice the amount of curd that you’ll need for the muffins so you can keep the rest in an air tight container in the fridge and use for whatever you like. For a brief video of me making the dish head over to my Instagram page and to get more info on citrus fruit, when they’re in season and industry news head to https://www.citrus.co.nz/


Lemon Curd Crumble Muffins

Makes at least 12


Ingredients:


Lemon curd

135ml lemon juice (6 lemons)

125g sugar

125g butter – cubed

3 egg yolks

2 whole eggs

Crumble topping

40g flour

20g ground almonds

35g sugar

35g butter, cubed

1tsp lemon zest

Muffin mix

4C flour

2C sugar

8 teaspoons baking powder

3tsp lemon zest

1tsp vanilla essence

200g melted butter

500 ml milk

2 eggs


Method:


For the Lemon curd:

Zest the lemons using a fine grater or micro plane and set to one side. Mix together the lemon juice, sugar and eggs in a bowl and set over a pot half full of water over a low heat on the stove. Add half the butter and cook until mixture begins to thicken using a whisk to stir the mix occasionally, then add the remaining butter and continue cooking. When the lemon curd is nice and thick remove it from heat and cool in the fridge.

For the Crumble topping:

Combine all dry ingredients and rub in butter with your fingers until it’s sandy. 

For the Muffin mix:

Melt the butter and whisk with the eggs and milk. Combine all the dry ingredients and make a well in the centre and then gently fold/stir in the wet ingredients until just combined. Don’t over mix as this will make your muffins tough. Pre heat your oven to 165C. Spoon half the muffin mix into your greased or lined muffin tin and then place a teaspoon of cold lemon curd in the centre. Top with the remaining muffin mix and then spoon the crumble topping evenly over the muffins. Bake for 18-22mins depending on your oven and the size of your muffins, the bigger the muffins the longer they will take however if you make 12-13 jumbo size muffins with this recipe they will take closer to 22mins to bake. 

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Pan fried fish w Orange Avocado Salad, Citrus herb crumb

It’s Spring now apparently so along with some brief fine spells of weather we have some beautiful citrus fruit in season. So when the weather allows head outside and fire up the bbq. This recipe is fresh and achievable and can be mostly prepared in advance with the cooking all done on the bbq if you like. For a brief video of me making the dish head over to my Instagram page and to get more info on citrus fruit, when they’re in season and industry news head to https://www.citrus.co.nz/


Pan Fried Fish w Orange Avocado Salad, Asparagus, Citrus Herb Crumb

Serves 4


Ingredients:


4pc Fish fillets (600g approx)

4 handfuls asparagus (300g approx)

Salt and Pepper

Citrus Herb Crumb

2 Bread rolls (stale ones are the best!)

Zest of 2 Oranges

6Tbs Olive Oil

2-3Tbs Orange Juice

50g Whole Almonds

1/4 Red Onion (fine dice)

2 Small handfuls Rocket (25g approx)

Salt and Pepper

Orange Avocado Salad

2-4 Oranges (zested and segmented, keeping all the juice)

1 Avocado (chunky dice)

6 Cherry Tomatoes (halved)

1/4 Red Onion (fine dice)

4 Small handfuls Rocket (50g approx)

Salt and Pepper

Orange Dressing

Juice of 2 oranges (use the cores left over from making the salad segments)

4Tbs Olive Oil


Method:


For the Citrus Herb Crumb:

Rip up the bread rolls into small chunks. Combine all the ingredients into a food processor and pulse until everything is well combined and everything is chopped up into a coarse crumb, don’t make it too fine you want to see all the bits. Spread out onto an oven tray and bake at 150C for 15mins taking it out half way through and give it a stir so it cooks evenly. Cool and store in an airtight container at room temperature.

For the Orange Avocado Salad:

Zest the oranges using a zester (keep the zest for the crumb) and remove the skin ensuring to cut away all the white pith as this is bitter and we don’t want to use it. Segment the oranges and squeeze the remaining orange core into a bowl to collect the juice to use for the dressing. Combine all the salad ingredients except the rocket as well as all the dressing ingredients in a bowl together. When ready to serve toss through the rocket at the last minute so it stays fresh and doesn’t wilt.

To Serve:

Drizzle the asparagus with a little cooking oil and season with some salt and pepper and grill on the bbq until tender. Do the same with the fish fillets and either grill on the grill plate of the bbq or in a fry pan over medium to high heat, cooking time will depend on the thickness of the fish but a good guide for most fish fillets is about 2 minutes on each side until golden brown and cooked all the way through but try not to over cook the fish or it can go dry. Toss the rocket through the salad and build up all the ingredients on plates and serve with some aioli if you like.

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Wild Venison burgers with pickled beetroot and a fried egg

 

 

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Wild Venison burgers with pickled beetroot and a fried egg
Serves 8
When it comes to using high quality ingredients I like to keep it simple. There’s no need to add a whole bunch of ingredients and flavours to something that is already so good and wild venison you’ve harvested yourself is about as good as it can get.
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Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
25 min
Total Time
55 min
Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
25 min
Total Time
55 min
You’ll need to make or buy
  1. Burger buns
  2. Tomato relish or sauce
  3. Mayo
  4. Lettuce
  5. Tomato
Venison Burgers
  1. 800g venison
  2. 200g pork mince
  3. 1tps salt
  4. 1/2tspn white pepper
Pickled Beetroot
  1. 3 large beetroot
  2. 1/2C cider (or white wine) vinegar
  3. 1/2C sugar
  4. 1/2C Water
For the Burger patties
  1. Combine all ingredients well, mould into burger shapes 1-2cm thick and keep in the fridge until you’re ready to cook them.
For the Beetroot
  1. Place the whole beetroot in a pot of salted water and simmer until the beetroot is very tender. Drain then rub the skins off and slice. Combine the vinegar, sugar and water and bring to the boil then take off the heat. Add the beetroot to the vinegar mix and allow to cool before storing in the fridge. Will last at least 4 weeks.Is best made well ahead of time and left to marinate.
To serve
  1. After you’ve made your pickle and got your burgers ready, the first thing you’ll want to do is get your lettuce washed and either shredded or pulled apart and your tomatoes sliced up. This is a great recipe to throw on the BBQ if you get some good weather, so get your hot plate warmed up, crack a cold beer and get ready to make some burgers. Grease your hotplate (or fry pan if using the stove) with a little oil and making sure it’s nice and hot throw your venison on. Give it about 2-3 minutes on each side to ensure it is nicely browned but make sure you cook it so it’s still pink in the middle. Warm your buns, fry your eggs then put the whole thing together. Spread some tomato relish on the bottom bun and mayo on the top, place your lettuce and tomato on the bottom bun, then your venison, beetroot relish and then finally your fried egg and put the lid on.
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Rarotonga, Cook Islands and Chaîne des Rôtisseurs Jeunes Chefs Competition

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I was lucky enough to be invited to help judge the Chaine des Rotisseurs Jenues Chef competition held in Rarotonga this year held as part of their national Salon Culinaire. So reluctantly and with a heavy heart I boarded my Air NZ plane and left the nice cool windy, rainy climate of Wellington and headed into the sunny temperate climate that is the Cook Islands. As always when going to the islands, when you step off the plane you are hit by the heat. Now Rarotonga is not the hottest place in the world but you can expect temperature in the high 20’s with high humidity which makes it feel like it’s in the mid 30’s. And for someone who has well acclimatized to the Wellington “summer” this can be a bit of a shock. Pack your stubbies and singlets. IMG_0867

The Jeunes Chef competition itself is a global competion organised by the Chaine for young chefs who compete first in regionals before then competing in their national finals to see who will represent their country. The Cook Islands finals were held in conjunction with the Cook Islands Chef’s Association Salon Culinaire held at the local training institution. It has been over 11 years since I worked and lived in the Cook Islands and back then there was no formal hospitality training set up on the island with the only qualified labour coming from overseas so I am really happy to see how things have changed and progressed over the years through the efforts of many people including Sam Timoko and the Cook Islands Chefs Association. The competitors put our some good dishes in very trying conditions which were challenging even for us judges who had to only stand up for the 3 hour competition let alone pull finger and actually cook under pressure.

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I was booked into the compact Castaway resort on the eastern side of the island (it takes about 40mins there or there abouts to drive around the island at the 50km/hr speed limit) and you get decent value for the price your paying. The owners are the face of the business and are very friendly, helpful and I had a good stay with everything I could want. The air conditioning was most welcome! I met up with fellow chefs Jaqui Brown (Brick & Vines) and head judge Marc Soper (Wharekahau) at The Islander Hotel which is located right next to the airport. The beer is cheap and cold, the hospitality excellent and we were lucky enough to experience an island night there with a local food buffet and awesome show put on by one of the local dance troupes.  The Islander was also the location of our Chaine Gala dinner where myself, Marc, Jaqui, Tua and Phillip put on a course each.

The Islander Island night

The Islander Island night

 The Bailli Délégué (president) of the Cook Islands Chaine is Phillip Nordt, owner and chef at On the Beach (OTB) at Manuia Beach Resort so we were lucky enough to spend some time there before and after the competition. They have an infinity pool, a bar with cold drinks and some excellent food. Their Sous chef Tua was the winner of the Jenues Chef’s competition ( global young chef’s competition) and we had a most excellent dinner there so if you’re looking for somewhere to have a nice meal and in the area I would recommend popping over. 

Another thing you should do is go check out Captain Tama’s lagoon cruises. The guys are an absolute crack up and I can’t think of anything much more special and relaxing than sitting on a boat watching the sun go down.

Captain Tamas Cruises

Captain Tamas Cruises

For a bit of night life there’s Rehab bar and if you like loud music, cheap bourbon and want to challenge yourself to a local experience there’s the fun but Jungle bar. On the way home you can grab a chicken pocket from the food cart outside of Rehab Bar or stop at the food cart down past the markets and ask for a “Wet Cheese”, it’s a burger not on the menu and I’m not sure if it was a joke on the Pakehas or not but it hit the spot for a midnight snack!IMG_0925

 

 

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Venison Wellington with mushrooms and kumara mash

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This is a good recipe for entertaining and an impressive way to cook venison. The kumara adds a buttery richness to the dish and the earthiness of the mushrooms compliments the flavour of the meat well. If you wanted to save time and did not want to use the pastry aspect of the dish you could simply grill the venison and add some cream and meat stock to the mushrooms for a simple mushroom sauce.

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Venison Wellington with mushrooms and kumara mash
Serves 4
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Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
20 min
Total Time
1 hr 5 min
Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
20 min
Total Time
1 hr 5 min
Venison
  1. 600g venison back strap
  2. 2 sheets puff pastry
  3. Splash of milk
Mushroom Duxelle
  1. 1/2 onion
  2. 250g mushrooms
  3. 3cl garlic
  4. 1/2tsp dried thyme or fresh
  5. 50g butter
  6. 1tsp red wine vinegar
  7. Salt and pepper
Kumara Mash
  1. 2-3 kumara
  2. 50g butter
  3. Splash milk or cream
For the Mushroom
  1. Finely dice the onion, mushrooms and garlic by pulsing them all together in a food processor. Place in a pot along with the butter and thyme and cook out on a low to moderate heat until everything has softened and the liquid has evaporated, about 15mins. Add the vinegar and cook for another 2mins. Season to taste with salt and pepper then set aside to cool.
For the Kumara mash
  1. Peel the kumara and cut into even sized pieces. Starting in cold, salted water boil the kumara until nice and soft. Drain in a colander then return to the pot and cook over a low heat for 1 to 2 minutes to remove any excess water. Mash the kumara until nice and smooth. Melt the butter along with a little milk or cream and fold through the kumara mix. If the mash is too stiff add some cream or milk to thin it down and then season to taste with salt and white pepper.
For the Venison Wellington
  1. Trim the venison back strap of any silver skin by inserting a sharp pointed knife (such as a boning knife) under one end of the silver skin then with the blade angled upward remove the silver skin off in strips cutting off as little meat as possible. Pat the meat dry with a kitchen towel if required and season with salt and pepper. In a very hot pan with a little oil, sear the back strap until nicely browned on each side but not at all cooked. Set aside.
  2. Place the venison on a pastry sheet (you may need to cut your venison in half to fit depending on the size of your pastry sheets). Spoon some of the cold mushroom mix on top of the venison so the entire top of the meat is covered and then with one edge of the pastry brushed with milk so that it sticks, roll the venison and the mushroom together in the pastry and pinch the edges. Brush the pastry with milk.
To Serve
  1. Bake the venison Wellington on an oven tray lined with grease proof paper in a 200C oven for 10-15mins for rare to medium rare depending on the thickness of your back strap. Cooking beyond medium rare will make your venison dry. Once cooked remove from the oven and poke a few small holes in the base of the pastry to allow any resting juices to escape and rest on an oven rack for 10 minutes before carving. Serve with some hot kumara mash and a green salad or seasonal veg along with Branston pickle if desired.
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Southern Fried Rabbit with Smoky Chilli Mayo

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This recipe and is a home version of fast food using wild game. It’s one of my favourite ways to eat rabbit as it locks in the moisture and flavour so make sure you don’t skip the brining process as this is critical to ensuring a moist result. If you don’t have all the ingredients to make the brine you can use just salt and water and that is better than nothing. The smoked chilli mayo recipe uses smoke essence which is available from specialty shops or you can replace the chilli powder and tabasco with canned Chipotle chillies which will give the mayo a lightly smoky flavour.   

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Southern Fried Rabbit with Smoky Chilli Mayo
Yields 24
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Cider brine
  1. 500ml apple cider
  2. 3lt Water
  3. 1/2C salt
  4. 3 star anise
  5. 4 bay leaves
  6. 4 sprigs thyme
  7. 2 rabbits (about 1kg each)
Smoky chilli mayo
  1. 4 yolks
  2. 1 whole egg
  3. 1tsp tabasco sauce
  4. 1 small garlic clove
  5. Juice of 1 lemon
  6. 375ml canola oil
  7. 125ml olive oil
  8. Salt and pepper
  9. 1/4tsp Chilli powder
  10. Dash smoke essence
Rabbit coating
  1. 1/4C milk
  2. 2Tbs cayenne pepper
  3. 1Tbs paprika
  4. 1tsp ground black pepper
  5. 1tsp garlic powder
  6. 1C flour
  7. 1/4C corn flour
For the brine
  1. Mix everything apart from the rabbit together and stir well to dissolve the salt. Take your skinned and gutted rabbit and using a sharp pointed knife remove any membrane and silver skin from the outside of the meat as this will go tough once cooked. Halve the now trimmed rabbit and cut each half through the bone into 6 pieces depending on how big you’d like them (I like to get 12 pieces out of every rabbit). Submerge the rabbit in the brine for about 12 hours or overnight.
For the mayo
  1. Combine all ingredients except the oil and smoke essence in a food processor or blender. Slowly add the oil with the food processor running to emulsify the oil and create the creamy mayo. Add smoke essence to taste and more tabasco/chilli powder if more heat is desired. Add warm water at the end for consistency if the mayo is too thick.
For the rabbit coating
  1. Combine in a large bowl all the ingredients except the milk and stir to mix all the spices evenly through the flour mix. Remove the rabbit from the brine and pat dry with a kitchen towel. Toss in the milk, shake off the excess and transfer to the flour mix. Toss the rabbit in the bowl of flour and leave for up to 2 hours making sure to give it a toss every now and again. This is to build up a good thick flour coating on the outside of the rabbit.
  2. Fry in vegetable oil or lard at 160C for about 10mins (depending on the size of your rabbit pieces) or until golden brown and just cooked through. If you coating starts to get too dark before the middle of your rabbit is fully cooked you can remove the rabbit from the oil and finish it in an oven set to 150C for a few minutes until cooked through.
MacLean Fraser http://macleanfraser.com/
 

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Chipotle pulled pork burger with cucumber pickle

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This recipe calls for pork shoulder which is a tougher secondary cut of meat and benefits from a slow, wet cooking method. You can get canned chipotle chilies from the supermarket and can serve the burger with a nice fresh coleslaw. Wild pork is great here, however any pork could be used but stick to a tough cut such as shoulder or belly.

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Chipotle pulled pork burger
Serves 6
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Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
4 hr
Total Time
4 hr 45 min
Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
4 hr
Total Time
4 hr 45 min
Chipotle pulled pork
  1. 1.5kg (or there about) bone in pork shoulder
  2. 2 shallots (or 1 small onion)
  3. 6 cloves garlic
  4. 1Tbs smoked paprika
  5. 3Tbs brown sugar
  6. 100g can chipotle (use ½ to 1 whole can depending on how hot you want it)
  7. 250g can tomato paste
  8. 3Tbs red wine vinegar
  9. 1/2C water (use 1.5C if using an oven instead of a slow cooker)
  10. 1Tbs chopped rosemary (or dried herbs)
  11. 1Tbs salt
  12. 1/2tspn white pepper
Cucumber pickle
  1. 500g (about 2) cucumbers
  2. 1 onion
  3. 1/4C salt
  4. 1.5C white wine vinegar
  5. 3/4C sugar
  6. 1Tbs wholegrain mustard
  7. 1tspn turmeric
For the burger
  1. Blend all the ingredients together in a blender or food processor and rub all over the pork. Place the pork along with any left-over marinade in your slow cooker and cook for about 8 hours or place in a roasting tray covered with tin foil and bake at 150 for 4-5hrs until tender and falling off the bone. If there is any liquid left then place in a pot and simmer until it thickens. Once cool enough to touch shred the meat and mix with any remaining cooked marinade and reduced cooking liquid.
For the pickle
  1. Slice the cucumber and onion and toss with the salt in a bowl. Cover the cucumber salt mix with cold water and leave for an hour. Drain the salt water in a colander. Combine the remaining ingredients in pot and bring to boil. Pour the hot vinegar mix over the cucumber and onions then leave to cool. Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 month.
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Apple crumble

One of the topics I am passionate about is food wastage. In an ideal world we would show respect to our food and have none of it go in the bin.

Recently I was able to team up with Love Food Hate Waste (https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz) as part of Wellington on a Plate and hold a cooking demonstration on how to use up some of the most commonly usable but thrown away household food items.

According to the Love Food Hate Waste website: “New Zealanders throw away 122,547 tonnes of food a year. That is equivalent to 213 jumbo jets of food that has to go somewhere to rot, instead of being eaten. All of this food is worth about $872 million each year. That amount of food could feed the population of Dunedin for two years!” That’s only in New Zealand, globally “one third of food produced globally is wasted; that is 1.3 billion tonnes of food that is never eaten.” That to me is just mental and we can all do (and should) do our part by reducing our waste as much as possible. Shared here are some of the recipes that use some of LFHW’s top ten chucked out food items that you can try at home.

Apple crumble
Serves 4
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Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 30 min
Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 30 min
Apple crumble
  1. 8-10 apples (can also substitute/mix with other fruit such as pears, rhubarb etc)
  2. 1/4C sugar
  3. Water if required
  4. 5 Cardamom pods (optional)
Crumble topping
  1. 1C flour
  2. 125g butter, diced
  3. 1/2C sugar
  4. 1tsp mixed spice
For the apples
  1. Peel, core and dice the apples. Add to a pot along with the sugar and a little water (and the cardamom if using). Cook on a low heat until the apples are soft and starting to break up. Depending on the variety of the apple they may require some water added if becoming too dry and starting to stick.
For the crumble topping
  1. In a bowl mix together all the topping ingredients and crumble together with your hands until well combined.
To bake
  1. In a baking dish spoon in the apple mix and top with the flour topping.
  2. Bake at 170C for 30-45 mins or until nice and golden brown and bubbling.
MacLean Fraser http://macleanfraser.com/

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Pan fried fish on truffled mash, petit pois a la Francais, lemon beurre blanc

One of the topics I am passionate about is food wastage. In an ideal world we would show respect to our food and have none of it go in the bin.

Recently I was able to team up with Love Food Hate Waste (https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz) as part of Wellington on a Plate and hold a cooking demonstration on how to use up some of the most commonly usable but thrown away household food items.

According to the Love Food Hate Waste website: “New Zealanders throw away 122,547 tonnes of food a year. That is equivalent to 213 jumbo jets of food that has to go somewhere to rot, instead of being eaten. All of this food is worth about $872 million each year. That amount of food could feed the population of Dunedin for two years!” That’s only in New Zealand, globally “one third of food produced globally is wasted; that is 1.3 billion tonnes of food that is never eaten.” That to me is just mental and we can all do (and should) do our part by reducing our waste as much as possible. Shared here are some of the recipes that use some of LFHW’s top ten chucked out food items that you can try at home.

Pan fried fish on truffled mash, petit pois a la Francais, lemon beurre blanc
Serves 4
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Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
30 min
Total Time
1 hr 30 min
Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
30 min
Total Time
1 hr 30 min
Fish
  1. 700g Fish fillets
Beurre blanc
  1. 150ml White wine
  2. 2 Lemons juice/zest
  3. ¼ Onion
  4. 150g Butter
  5. Salt and pepper
Potato mash
  1. 500g Potato
  2. 100g Butter
  3. 75ml Cream
  4. 20ml Truffle oil (optional)
  5. Salt and white pepper
French style peas
  1. 200g Peas
  2. ½ Lettuce
  3. 1/2C Chicken stock
  4. 40g Butter
  5. Salt and pepper
Chicken Stock
  1. Left over chicken frame/bones
  2. Vegetable offcuts and ends (carrot, onion, leek, celery, garlic)
  3. Any herb stalks (thyme, rosemary, parsley)
  4. Peppercorns (optional)
For the Beurre Blanc
  1. Finely dice the onion and add to a small pot along with the white wine and the juice and zest of one lemon and simmer until reduced by ¾. Dice the cold butter and over a very low heat whisk onto the wine reduction piece by piece to emulsify. Season with salt and pepper and the juice from the remaining lemon if you want more of a lemon flavour.
For the potato mash
  1. Peel and cut up the potatoes into even sized pieces so they cook at the same rate then place them in a pot of cold salted water and bring to the boil and cook until tender. In another pot heat the butter and milk together. Drain the potatoes and return to the pot, stirring over heat until they become fluffy. Mash with a potato masher or use a ricer or meuli. Fold in the hot cream butter mix and the truffle oil (if using) and season to taste.
For the peas
  1. Boil the peas until cooked, add to a pan or pot with ¼ of the butter. Add the chicken stock and reduce by 2/3 then shake in the remaining cold diced butter to emulsify. Finely shred the lettuce and add to the pea mix to wilt and warm through. Season to taste.
For the chicken stock
  1. In a pot place your left over chicken frame along with any vegetable off cuts or trimmings (and peppercorns) and cover with cold water. Bring to the simmer and leave to simmer for 4 hours. Pass through a sieve and you have chicken stock to use in any recipe you like such as soups, sauces, stews/curries, noodle broth etc.
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Roast chicken and spiced pumpkin w citrus slaw and croutons

One of the topics I am passionate about is food wastage. In an ideal world we would show respect to our food and have none of it go in the bin.

Recently I was able to team up with Love Food Hate Waste (https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz) as part of Wellington on a Plate and hold a cooking demonstration on how to use up some of the most commonly usable but thrown away household food items.

According to the Love Food Hate Waste website: “New Zealanders throw away 122,547 tonnes of food a year. That is equivalent to 213 jumbo jets of food that has to go somewhere to rot, instead of being eaten. All of this food is worth about $872 million each year. That amount of food could feed the population of Dunedin for two years!” That’s only in New Zealand, globally “one third of food produced globally is wasted; that is 1.3 billion tonnes of food that is never eaten.” That to me is just mental and we can all do (and should) do our part by reducing our waste as much as possible. Shared here are some of the recipes that use some of LFHW’s top ten chucked out food items that you can try at home.

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Roast chicken and spiced pumpkin w citrus slaw and croutons
Serves 4
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Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
30 min
Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
30 min
Chicken Salad
  1. 300g cooked chicken, shredded
  2. 200g pumpkin
  3. ¼ cabbage
  4. 1 carrot
  5. ½ onion
  6. 3 slices stale bread, diced
Citrus mayo
  1. 2 whole egg
  2. 500ml canola (or other neutral) oil
  3. 1 teaspon Dijon mustard
  4. Salt, pepper, sugar
  5. Juice of 3 citrus fruit ie grapefruit, lemon, limes, oranges
Spice mix
  1. 1tsp ground coriander
  2. 1tsp ground cumin
  3. 1/2tsp allspice
For the mayo
  1. Reserve 1Tbs of the juiced citrus and place the rest in a pot and simmer until reduced by ¾. Using a stick blender or in a blender or food processor blend the whole eggs with the mustard and reserved Tbs of citrus juice until it becomes pale in appearance. Drizzle in the canola oil slowly to emulsify. Once all the oil is incorporated and the mayo is nice and thick fold in the citrus reduction and then season with a little salt and pepper and sugar (if required) to taste. If the mayo is too thick you can thin down with 1Tbs of hot water.
To make the salad
  1. Dice the pumpkin, toss in a little oil and then toss with the spice mix. Season with salt and pepper. Roast on a baking tray at 180C until tender, about 15minutes. Cool. Cut the bread into cubes and toss in a little oil, season and bake in the oven until lightly browned and crispy. Chiffonade/shred the cabbage thinly, julienne/finely slice the onion (red or white onion ok) and grate the peeled carrot. Fold through enough of the citrus mayo so the slaw is nicely coated. Serve with the pumpkin, chicken and croutons.
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