Prize time
Head to my Facebook page Facebook.com/pages/eatsbyanna tonight to try and score one of two double passes to the excellent Taste of Auckland festival this weekend. Yay! Continue reading Prize time
Month: November 2013
Salad special
More salads! If you’ve been following this blog for a while you’ll have noticed I post a lot of salad ideas. I have favourite salads I go back to again and again but I also love coming up with new twists to make seasonal produce sing. And as I talked about a few posts ago, the best bit about hosting a barbecue is getting stuck … Continue reading Salad special
Supreme Seafarers
On Friday I popped in to the just-opened Supreme Coffee brew bar on the Tyler St ground floor of the The Seafarers building. It was hard to even spot it was there as there was a big digger thing out the front, and The Fearon Hay fit out wasn’t yet complete (but will be come this week), yet eager customers were popping in and out … Continue reading Supreme Seafarers
Shreds of decency
Barbecue season has begun and the best thing about that, I think, is all the salads that go with it. I really must go down the charcoal path (well, not the small, ultra simple charcoal we already have, that is) one of these days, but until then, a lot of the effort I put in to varied and interesting marinades and rubs and cuts of … Continue reading Shreds of decency
Wholly delicious
The Lewis Road Creamery range of organic Jersey milk and cream hit the shelves a few weeks ago and has caused quite a stir, with bloggers aplenty impressed at the difference in taste between this premium organic product that is both permeate and palm kernel oil-free, and comes solely from Lewis Road’s Jersey herds. My advice is go for the full-fat, non-homogenised silver top. That’s … Continue reading Wholly delicious
“Leave the gun…
…Take the cannoli”. Are these the only cannoli you can buy on a regular basis in Auckland? Quite possibly. At times you spot these beloved Italian confections on restaurant menus (I’ve seen them at Blunderbuss on occasion), but for something you can buy on every block in many a New York, and even Melbourne neighbourhood, they’re surprisingly thin on the ground here in NZ. Probably … Continue reading “Leave the gun…
