An easy recipe for chicken and barley soup from scratch. Wholesome, soothing comfort food.

Grilled corn with miso butter. You won’t want to go back to plain corn on the cob after this.

Miso cookies? Yes! Chewy, sweet, just a tad salty and so so delicious.

Not your average peach pie. Spiced with cardamom, cloves & a touch of vanilla, it’s a different and delicious treat.

Ginger & Sesame Chicken Salad – A light, refreshing salad with steamed chicken and a ginger-sesame dressing. Perfect for summer evenings.

Cornmeal griddlecakes with vanilla-mint strawberries and honeyed sour cream. For when you want your pancakes to be a little bit special.

Roast summer vegetables with feta and couscous.

Cucumber and mint sorbet. A sweet, refreshing treat.

Garam masala-spiced popcorn, cooked in coconut oil. Too easy, too delicious!

Pappardelle with hot smoked salmon and chives, in a creme fraiche and mustard sauce. Easy and delicious!

Quinoa salad with avocado, radish, edamame & lemon. Refreshing, delicious, interesting. And healthy!

Strawberry-rhubarb crumble pie. A spring classic.

Asparagus season is finally here! (In the Southern Hemisphere, that is.) Celebrate with this salad – it’s about as green as you can get.

Chipotle penne all’arrabbiata: a quick and easy pasta dish with a Mexican twist

Rice pudding cooked in coconut milk, topped with pears poached in a palm sugar-cinnamon syrup. A divine twist on a winter favourite.

Pear, feijoa & ginger crostata

Creamy, just-set scrambled eggs with smoked mackerel, sour cream & chives. So easy yet so decadent.

The best hot drink for a bleak, cold winter’s day: hot milk with honey & freshly grated nutmeg

Chocolate-Earl Grey thumbprint cookies with honey ganache.

Poaching quinces gives them such a beautiful rosy hue. Perfect for topping everything from porridge to ice cream.

Luscious scrambled eggs paired with juicy roast tomato and thyme – part of my birthday breakfast at Floriditas Cafe in Wellington, NZ

Yakitori chicken meatballs, cooked over a binchotan Japanese charcoal grill at Kazu Yakitori and Sake Bar in Wellington, New Zealand.