Lovely Food NZ

Discovering the delicious, the handmade and the rustic around New Zealand

The Little Grocer

311 Richmond Road Grey Lynn, Auckland Tel. (09) 962 6711 Yummy yum yum yum. Today from The Little Grocer we had two cinnamon buns, two lattes, one handmade plum iceblock, two delicious homegrown lemons and ...

Raspberry and Ricotta Muffins

Based on a Donna Hay recipe these swap out spelt flour and ground nuts for the white flour, and ricotta for the sour cream. Here, therefore, is the new recipe; 1 cup spelt flour 1 ...

Aug, 16 · in Recipes

Cherry and ricotta breakfast panacotta

Cream-free ricotta and yoghurt panacotta The brief: to use up an enormous jar of Bonne Maman Cherry Compote that I’d opened, eaten a bit once for breakfast and then it became the weekdays when I ...

Aug, 03

We Love Pies!

Oh my goodness, do we ever. We love I love pies. We tried three I love pies pies; Angus Beef Mince and Mozzarella Cheese, Smoked Fish in a Creamy Béchamel Sauce and Free Range Chicken Leek & ...

Feb, 01

J Friend & Co Honey

www.jfriend.co.nzMmmmm. These beautiful little jars of honey have been appearing in all sorts of places of late so without hesitation we bought Viper’s Bugloss – a plant we know from France where it’s called Viperine.Gorgeous ...

Feb, 01

NZ’s favourite recipe

Entries close this weekend for NZ’s favourite recipe. And there’s 17 days left to vote for your favourite. Sharlene from Forrest Hill’s doing pretty well – she’s got two in the top ten. Go Sharlene! ...

Oct, 22

Brown Sugar Kitchen update

267 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby, Auckland Tel. 09-360 0593 They’ve changed their name. Not quite sure why. But now they’re called Sugar Brown’s Bakehouse. Hmm. Well, whatever they’re called, we have discovered a little secret. Go ...

Dec, 18