Foodie Sue’s

27/08/2018

Back from a fabulous holiday and easing myself in with a firm favourite this week...

Terry’s chicken curry. G/F $20 for 2/3 people
A complex combination of garlic, ginger, eastern spices and succulent free range chicken thighs ( boneless) in a creamy coconut base, with a little chillie kick.
One for tea and one for the freezer?

Tuscan tart $7.00 slice G/F serves 1
Slow cooked garlic, onions and basamic on a melt in your mouth gluten free short crust. Topped with roasted red pepper, black olives, creamy feta, rocket and herbs fresh from my garden.
On its own or served alongside a salad, it’s a great vegetarian option.

Baked stuffed potatoes GF $7( x2halves)
Here’s a great way to get vegetables into the crew!
Little gondolas of goodness! Beans, corn, onion, tomatoes and tasty cheddar all gooey and golden inside the vitamin rich potato skin vessel. Push the boat out- they’ll love it!

Winter root vegetable salad. $8.00 bowl.
Roasted Parsnips, Carrot, Kumara and Pumpkin drizzled over with a lime and coconut yoghurt dressing.
Bright, Warming ... Satisfying!

And from my garden ...
My own version of ( meat free) Caesar Salad. This is a firm favourite with my friends and family, one they insist on every season!
Caesar Salad $10 bowl
All the herbs and vegetables straight from the kitchen garden, tossed through with shaved Parmesan, roasted walnuts and crisp apple. Topped with my secret dressing. A great accompaniment to the tart or baked potato .

Spaghetti con game retro e rucola ( spaghetti with prawns and rocket)
$40 family size ( serves 4/5)
.. And a little nod to the Amalfi. Unbelievably delicious! Sundried tomatoes , prawns, chillie and rocket lifted through pasta ( let me know if you require GF)

So .... Kia Kaha! ( stay strong - eat well!)
Warmest of winters

Sue 021 351 887 to place an order

17/07/2018

17/07/2018

Red braised beef pies, Stuffed chicken breasts and Mexican corn and polenta fritters.

16/07/2018

I’m happiest in my kitchen, cooking.
Or with my two granddaughters Daisy and Mathilda making magic with stick wands.
Or in a fabric shop.
Or in my garden.
Or behind a paint brush.
Or talking to my dearest friends, possibly ... quite possibly over a glass of wine.
Or dancing.
Or on the back of Bill’s bike in the countryside.
Or drinking my Saturday morning coffee that Bill brings me, in bed.
Or on our deck in the sun looking at boats and dipping into a good book.
Happiness is such a personal thing.

I hope I bring my happiness to the food I cook for you and that it makes you feel happy.

This week.

Chicken, Herb, lemon and olive chicken $18.00 g/f
This little creation is a combination of two recipes that Ive always felt belonged together. Slow cooked onions, thyme and garlic. Sliced chicken thighs, lemons and olives.
I promise you - it sounds simple, but it’s very sophisticated. Served alongside dauphinois potatoes and maybe a green salad or beans ,’moi’ ( she kisses her fingers ... making that ‘ magnifique! ‘ sign)

Dauphinois Potatoes $6.00 for a family serve size accompianment. G/f
Bechmel sauce, velvety and smooth is slathered over layers of finely sliced potaties. Parmesan, garlic ....
oooo la la!

Red Braised beef pies. $6.50.
Harping back to my heritage here.
I was bought up eating eastern style food . So I’ve combined all the things
I love about my heritage in a slow cooked beef, star anise, ginger, soy, chillie bean paste and shiitake mushroom sauce, and popped it inside a true kiwi flaky pastry pie.
OMG!

Lamb Tagine $20 g/f
A little touch of Morocco here.
Cinnamon, ginger, coriander, cayenne, apricots and slow cooked lamb.
Throw some stock over couscous and plunge some beans or broccoli.
Easy!

Chicken Hedgehogs $ 10 each. G/f
Big breasts! Wrapped in bacon, stuffed with cranberries, garlic and Brie. For those of you who don’t like saucy stuff- this is the bomb!

Thai red lentil laksa with chicken and mint balls $8.00 bowl G/F
Delicious delicious!!!!

Finally for the vego’s amongst us

Mexican corn cakes $5.00 each G/F
Large polenta based cakes featuring capsicum, creamed corn, golden free range eggs, coriander and cheddar.
A clash of cultures here, but I’m serving it alongside my famous mango chutney.

I also have frozen

Slow cooked lamb shank$12.00 each. G/F
( large hind shank in hoisin sauce and all the other goodies that have been combined to create this deep and intensely satisfying sauce )

Arancini balls $1.50 each
Little golden risotto cheese and herb sensations served with aoli!

Warmest of winters everyone .... Bill and I will be away for the month of August.... so stock up.

Sue ❤️

12/07/2018

12/07/2018

I forgot to add some pics of some of this weeks goodies coming out of the oven—- Cardamom Almond chicken and Lamb shanks ( I have about 20 of these hearty shanks frozen for anyone who fancies popping in and stocking up)

09/07/2018

Having been born and raised on the Otago Peninsula, I’m mindful that winter here in Whitford is a completely different kettle of fish. Being truly cold is just a memory to me now. Winter then,usually meant at least once a season a big dump of snow would turn our treacherously steep concrete drive into a luge my two brothers and I would scream down in a plastic baby’s bath. The journey from town up the bay road with its blind hairpin bends
was one you’d not want to do after dark on a stormy night. You’d just as likely end up in the drink - you’d definitely be looking out for waves breaching the harbour’s rock wall . Winter meant frosts. Sheets left on the line would be suffering rigor mortis by morning... something that bleached them better than ‘bluo’.
You knew it was winter alright! And with winter came - winter meals, steaming hot from mums electric range and oven .
My mother was without a doubt and still to this day, the best cook I have ever known. We weren’t rich, but she had a way of turning simple ingredients into recipes so special that my brothers and I would beg her to repeat whichever one was our favourite at the time. So it goes without saying that among my most precious possessions are her recipe books.

With her in mind I’m paying forward the love she cooked in each evening . Bon apetite everyone. The shortest day has come and gone ... who’d have known!

1. Lamb shanks with fennel, red wine and garlic $12 ( one large hind shank) will probably feed two.
Slow cooked in a sumptuous gravy till it’s ready to fall from the bone, crown it the king of kiwi dinners on any winters night.

2. Parsnip and leek mash $ 6.00 accompaniment.
As it’s name suggests, two wonderful winter vegetables, a touch of toasted cumin seeds - a blitz in the whizz and voila - a creamy side dish onto which you can lay your lamb.

3. Cardamom Almond chicken. $20
Back by popular demand! Free range chicken thighs, flaked almonds, fresh minced ginger, honey and cardamom pods in a yoghurt coconut cream and turmeric sauce. Heaven !!!!

4. Terry’s chicken curry $20
The most complex combination of ingredients come together to create one of our family’s firm favourites. Subtly spicy and with lingering aromatic eastern spices it’s sure to be your family favourite also.

5. Potato and zucchini pie. $8
This weeks vegetarian offering. Earthy potatoes, sliced zucchini, red onions and garlic have been slow cooked with fresh herbs snipped from my garden and folded through a cream cheese and free range egg custard, poured into a pastry case and baked till golden. A perfect lunch or equally good for tea.

6. Chicken songbirds $ 10 for two
Individual chicken thighs sliced open, stuffed with garlic, spinach from my garden, Camembert cheese and cranberry jelly. Wrapped in bacon and baked till bubbling.

Warmest of winters to you all.
Sue

04/07/2018

Just out of the oven - little gondolas of goodness, baked stuffed potatoes and crisp coconut chicken salad. Almost too pretty to eat!

02/07/2018

Arancini balls $1.50 each ( not G/F )
When I offered to make arancini balls for Maddies 21st birthday this week I carefully calculated that the recipe would need to be multiplied by six. Google said recipe made 25 mozzarella arancini balls and I needed to make 150.
Long story short ... it took me a day and a half to roll what turned out to be 400 ......!!!! Arancini balls. So this week - they’re on the menu. These delightful risotto balls are little goblets of golden gorgeousness. Deep fried ( something I rarely do - but naughty is nice once in a while 🤫 )and served alongside a green salad the kids will think you’ve ‘brought home the bacon !’

Louisiana Gumbo $40 family size G/F
Bill has this thing. When I make something he really likes, in his big New York brawl he goes .... ‘Oh yaaaaaah, that’s a 10!!’ And that’s what he said when I served him up Louisiana Gumbo. Just lolling around in a hearty warming paprika and kumara fusion are Spicy chorizo sausage, succulent prawns and the third meat in this holy trinity - chicken! Generously ladled over steamed rice ... believe Bill when he says it’s a 10.

Chillie $20 - serves 2/3 either beef or vegetarian options G/F
Spooned inside crunchy corn taco shells, rained on with tasty grated cheese, a little salad ... nothing’s easier, tastier or more family friendly.
Alternatively, this beautiful balance of peppers, tomatoes, beans, chipotle and spices can be ladled over feathery white rice.

Coconut chicken salad $12 single serve ( includes peanuts)

Feeling virtuous? Why not opt for a fresh, crunchy and colourful salad !
Asian inspired poached chicken meets crunchy peanuts ( sounds like a dating site) a little spritz of chillie, coriander and Pak Choi .... you look trimmer already😇

Baked, Stuffed potatoes $7

What could be a more fitting vessel for any number of sautéed flavoursome vegetables, cheeses and fresh herbs than a good honest potato skin. A meal all on its own ... or a great accompaniment.

Warmest of winters
Sue