It’s no surprise that “food” is a huge search topic in Google but it might be a surprise that searching “comfort food” has gone up a whopping 300 percent in the last 12 months. It’s our guess that Aotearoa New Zealand’s first lockdown landing in autumn (March-May) and the second in winter (August) that we...
10 Beautiful festive decorations that don’t cost the earth
Whatever you celebrate this summer season – from Hannukah, Dhanu Sankranti, Solstice, Gita Jayanti, Yuletide, Christmas, the Lunar New Year – Year of the Ox, to the birthday of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and Laylat al-Mi’raj in March – we know that decorating your house can be fun and bring everyone together over food and...
7 Festive recipes to capture the holiday spirit
If there’s one thing 2020 taught us it’s that we Kiwis love to bake! But even if you escaped the great lockdown baking frenzy, maybe now’s the perfect time to round out the year by getting fancy in the kitchen. To complete our season 7 recipe stack, we even adapted an egg nog recipe so...
8 Must-have kitchen gadgets you need to make you a Masterchef
Getting fancy in the kitchen is all the better when you have the right gadgets to do it. It may be a matter of saving the pennies to buy some of the pricier items, or adding them to birthday wish lists. But once you’ve amassed the right tools, there’ll be nothing in the way between...
8 Hilarious Kiwis to follow + our dairy-free Anzac biscuit recipe
We’re all in our Bubbles doing our staycation duties for the good of the country and turns out, some of us are funnier than others. In isolation it can be hard to find the laughs so now is the perfect time to discover some hilarious Kiwis using lockdown to bring the LOLs. These unique and...
4 Flour-free, no bake recipes for chocolate lovers to light up lockdown
Lockdown has had us turn into master chefs (with some spectacular baking fails along the way!😂😂😂) but if getting your hands on flour has proven to be all too much, we thought we’d let you have all the fun in the kitchen without the supermarket scramble. So here are our 4 super easy recipes for...