Passionfruit shortbread

Heart shaped cookies iced with passionfruit icing.

A perfect home made baking gift for Christmas or Valentines day. This recipe is for a basic shortbread base topped with an incredibly easy and delicious passionfruit icing.

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Christmas Salad

Christmas Salad Fresh Ideas recipies

This super summer salad will make sure you enjoy a sociable, foodie and very berry Christmas! You just can’t beat a green and red salad on the Christmas table and this will wow everyone including Santa! For a fresh and tasty festive salad to share with friends and family, just follow this simple recipe, which…

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Crispy Roast Pork Belly

Cooked pork sliced surrounded by potatoes and vegetables on black slate.

You can’t beat a good roast pork belly. The lovely thick layer of fat on pork belly keeps the meat really moist as it roasts, and also gives you an incredible, even layer of delicious crackling.

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Chocolate Profiteroles

Chocolate Profiteroles - Fresh Ideas

These amazing chocolate profiteroles are little bites of mouth-watering scrumptiousness that will hit the spot at parties, weddings and Christmas festivities. This profiterole recipe is just 3 steps and once you’ve made your own choux pastry, you’re a true cook! Serves 20 Chocolate Profiterole Recipe… For the Profiterole Choux Balls: 100g unsalted butter, plus extra…

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An easy Christmas breakfast

Forget chestnuts roasting on an open fire and other Bing Crosby-era cliches. The smell of cranberry kuchen cooking is enough to put food writer Sarah Wadsworth in a festive mood. “As far back as I can remember, we always had this for Christmas breakfast, and the smell of the buttery topping always reminds me of…

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A Christmas Cake… with a giggle

fresh food ideas Christmas cake

Christmas Cake Recipe Ingredients: * 2 cups flour * 1 packet of butter * 1 cup of water * 1 tsp baking soda * 1 cup of sugar * 1 tsp salt * 1 cup of brown sugar * Lemon juice * 4 large eggs * Nuts * 2 bottles wine * 2 cups of…

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Coconut Avocado Ice Cream

Avocados: Summer's Easy On-the-Go Food Fresh Ideas

We tend to over-indulge at festive times of the year, but celebrity chef Peter Blakeway has come up with a novel way to enjoy a little ‘healthy decadence’ as part of the NZ Add An Avocado campaign. Avocados are nature’s ‘super fruit’ and New Zealand is currently enjoying its biggest ever avocado season. And because…

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Avocado Chocolate Truffles

Avocados: Summer's Easy On-the-Go Food Fresh Ideas

We tend to over-indulge at festive times of the year, but celebrity chef Peter Blakeway has come up with a novel way to enjoy a little ‘healthy decadence’ as part of the NZ Add An Avocado campaign. Avocados are nature’s ‘super fruit’ and New Zealand is currently enjoying its biggest ever avocado season. And because…

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Carolyn’s Pavlova

Fresh Ideas - Carolyn's Pavlova

Nosh Food Market held a Pavlova Competition and lucky winner Carolyn Hutchins very kindly divulged her top-secret family recipe handed down from her grandmother. This winning pavlova recipe is simply irresistible. Serves 10 Getting Fresh with… Anthony Joseph Carolyn’s Pavlova How to make the Nosh Food Market Pavlova Competition Winning Pav as shown here by…

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