Wednesday, September 13, 2017

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14 September 2017
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Korean Fried Chicken
 
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Sticky fingers
 
Savour the flavour and indulge in The Hungry Cook's moreish Korean Fried Chicken – perfect weekend finger food.
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Sea salt and custard
 
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Sweet and salty
 
Fancy a treat? This Sea Salt and Caramel Custard Slice makes dessert twice as nice.
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Hello Graham
We're celebrating the best of the bao this week, tasting our way around the country to discover the most bountiful buns you need to get acquainted with.
With Meadow Fresh NZ Café of the Year on the not-so-distant horizon, be sure to register your coffee spot or nominate the local artisans within your community making the café experience truly worthwhile.
Ahead of the long-awaited Kiwi barbecue season, we sample some of our favourite platter recipes, ideal for easy entertaining with friends and family.
Kia mākona!
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LATEST RECIPES | our favourite recipes from this week
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Roasted Hazelnut, Chocolate and Black Cherry Cakes (Gluten Free)

Hazelnut, Chocolate and Black Cherry Cakes

Salted Caramel

Seriously delicious Salted Caramel

NEWS | Latest stories from dish.co.nz
Meadow Fresh NZ Café of the Year
 
Crema de la crème
 
Meadow Fresh NZ Café of the Year is back! If you think your café has got what it takes to take out the title, don't miss out on your opportunity to register.
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Bao round-up
 
Take a bao
 
Love your buns? We've tasted our way up and down the country to crown the best of the bao...
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Gourmet Traveller

 
 

 
 
 

 
Rhubarb-strawberry milk bun pudding
Bright red, jammy fruit is topped with sweet balls of dough that do an excellent job of mopping up the bubbling juices below. Be generous with the cream.
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Chasing Bengal tigers
On the trail of the elusive Bengal tiger in India’s Madhya Pradesh, Kendall Hill finds the search for the big cat is its own reward.
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Fusilli with greens, fennel and feta
This punchy baked pasta that channels the flavours of spanakopita, right down to the crisp shards of filo pastry on top.
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Sunday, September 10, 2017

The Nourished Baby


The Nourished Baby

by Dr Julie Bhosale

Bateman $39.99

 Among some of the most worrying decisions parents have to make concern when to shift their baby onto solids, and then what solids to give them. Evidence shows that these decisions have potentially significant lifelong consequences.

This takes place against an increasingly frightening global picture of children’s health. Across both developed and developing countries, childhood obesity continues to soar, along with iron deficiency, and the beginning signs for type 2 diabetes and heart disease. In New Zealand, one in three children is either overweight or obese.

While undertaking research for her doctoral thesis at AUT, Dr Julie Bhosale saw this with her own eyes. She measured children who, at the age of 10, were overweight and had high blood pressure. ‘The fact that a child just a few years older than my elder son had one of the biggest red flags for a heart attack before they were even in high-school was hard for me to comprehend,’ says Julie.

Your child does not have to be one of those statistics, though, as the first year of life offers a unique window in which the foods your babies start on lay down their nutritional and metabolic blueprint.
‘The importance of establishing healthy habits in the first 12 months of a baby’s life cannot be stressed enough. How our babies are nourished with food, sleep and movement during this time sets them up for life. To me, true nourishment is the interplay of these cornerstones of food, sleep and movement, along with a sense of purpose (which tends to come slightly later in life),’ explains Julie.

While these key foundations of wellbeing are discussed in The Nourished Baby, the book’s primary focus is the food we feed our babies in that first year.
‘Food is medicine. The nutrients from natural, wholefoods have been carefully designed by Mother Nature to provide what we need to not only sustain life, but to thrive — without the presence of the lifestyle diseases we see today,’ says Julie.

The Nourished Baby is heavily evidence-based and draws on a lot of research, but Julie’s aim has been to make the contents as reader-friendly, simple and accessible as possible.

Julie is also willing to tackle the big issues facing families today, including misleading labelling and marketing employed by some baby-food manufacturers. ‘I know the impact that first foods have on a baby and their health, and am frustrated at baby-food companies promoting their products as “healthy” homemade food. When I conducted my own research on products in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, the results were a huge surprise — in short, I’m check-mate on this billion-dollar industry.’

Today, Dr Julie Bhosale is an internationally-renowned family wellbeing and nutrition expert, author and speaker, whose 2015 viral postpartum body blog has been read by millions around the globe. She has been on national television, demanding for women to be supported in their choice of how they feed their babies.

In 2015, Julie also completed her doctoral thesis, gave birth to her second son and released her first cookbook, Healthy, Easy Dinners for Busy Mums. She helps mums and families all over the world, touring both locally and overseas. She is lecturer at AUT and an active researcher, and is involved in numerous projects affecting family wellbeing and wider communities.
Dr Julie Bhosale is real and authentic in exploring the challenges we face as parents. A lover of coffee and chocolate, she knows the world is not perfect, nor that what you see in the highlight reels on social media are necessarily representative of everyday family life. You can trust her advice is practical, realistic and at the same time providing much-needed guidance for our families to flourish.

The Fearless Kitchen


The Fearless Kitchen

by Vanessa Baxter
Bateman  RRP $39.99

Vanessa Baxter is a Ronald McDonald House Ambassador, an active supporter of KOTO Charities, which help educate street kids in all areas of hospitality, and has recently been involved with Bridge the Gap, teaching youth in New Zealand prisons how to cook. In all of these endeavours, she is driven by her passion for cooking.

‘Going into the Child Services centre in New Zealand took me back to a visit to a similar institution in Melbourne when I was studying psychology and criminology,’ says Vanessa.
‘The kids are in care, but they are in locked care. This is not a holiday camp, this is an institution. It is grey, it is plain, it is sparse. It was exactly as I remembered from 1987. My heart broke.

‘When we started to create food, it was slow to start, but the eating was fun. The kids were smiling. They found it hard to wait. Their tummies were too empty and needed filling. They had tried to share, and take turns and be patient — it hadn’t been easy. But we got there,’ says Vanessa.

Vanessa believes that barriers are broken when young people and adults cook together. Walls come down, children are so focused on the cooking on hand that they start to open up and relax and talk freely. Vanessa’s new cookbook The Fearless Kitchen encourages parents to bring their children into the kitchen and bond through cooking together.

‘Food is an experience and a way to broaden horizons. My recipes are appropriate for the whole family. I believe in expanding kids’ palates and pushing their boundaries in a safe, encouraging and non-judgmental way through involving them in the process of cooking,’ says Vanessa.

The Fearless Kitchen is wider than that, though: the preparing and sharing of food is a communal experience. The recipes here are designed to bring family, friends and flatmates together to have fun in making and then eating them.
Vanessa had a totally different experience cooking on the reality TV programme MasterChef in 2013 where she was scrutinised, and criticised, both professionally and personally, but she turned her experience into a positive one and created her company The Fearless Kitchen where she hosts cooking classes for corporations and children, all with the same goal — to break barriers.

The Fearless Kitchen features recipes from the variety of countries Vanessa has travelled to, but the place that stole her heart was South East Asia, where the flavours still find their way into her dishes, peeking up to remind her of her colourful life as a nomad.

From Indonesian Soto Ayam, to Calzone Pizza Pockets, Crispy Pork Dumplings and Blackberry and Dark Chocolate Cheesecake, The Fearless Kitchen is full of fresh, seasonal and delicious recipes designed for the family to make together.

‘Food is fuel, but food is so much more than that. It is about community and family. It is about bringing people together, about engagement, chatter, laughter. It is about the teaching of patience and manners. Food will be with us forever —embrace it.’ — Vanessa Baxter

 

Friday, September 8, 2017

EAT YOUR BOOKS

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Dear BookmanBeattie,

Finding the best recipes amongst the millions online is not easy – but you don’t have to! The team here at Eat Your Books, searches for excerpts from indexed books and magazines and every week we bring you our latest finds. Every day recipes are added from the best blogs and websites.

As a member, you can also add your own favorite online recipes
using the Bookmarklet. With EYB, you can have a searchable index of all your recipes in one place!

Happy cooking and baking everyone!

The team at EatYourBooks

Member Photo of the Week:
Summer Vegetable Salad with Tapenade and New Potatoes from Dinner: Changing the Game by Melissa Clark

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From Magazines:
10 recipes from Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi, excerpted in The Guardian Cook supplement

From Cookbooks:
1 recipe from Chicken on the Menu by Luc Hoornaert & Kris Vlegels
10 recipes from Veneto: Recipes from an Italian Country Kitchen by Valeria Necchio