Bacon & Egg Savouries to Die For

Bacon & Egg Savouries to Die For - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

Bacon & Egg Savouries are not standard anywhere in the world. This version will impress your guests and make you look like a kitchen magician. Bacon & Egg Savouries are a wonderful lightish snack to take the edge off your hunger, or as a party finger food, or served piping hot from the oven instead […]

Powering Up – Feeding Excess Power Back into the Grid

Double decker bus used as a roadside stall for selling avocados

Ex- zoologist, Steve Krzystyniak, and his partner, Lily Guilford, run two small  organic orchards on their 10 acre block near Helensville. One is in avocados, and  the other is in mixed heirloom fruits. They also grow their own vegetables  organically using lots of compost and love, and sell any surplus to friends. In  season they […]

The Art of Forgery – Karl F Sim

Sketch by infamous New Zealand art forger, C F Goldie

About to turn 86 on 6 December 2010, with his eyes sharpened by exercises, notorious NZ art forger, Karl Sim, was still at it…forging not only art, but a career as an eminently saleable artist. Karl Feodor Sim, changed his name by deed poll in 1985 to Carl Feodor Goldie, in honour of one of […]

New Book of NZ Landscapes includes Yvonne Rust

Yvonne Rust, QSM, has been included in the expanded and revised edition of Landscape Paintings of New Zealand – A Journey from North to South by Christopher Johnstone. This beautiful book launched yesterday at Jonathan Grant Galleries in Auckland, includes 143 magnificent colour plates of New Zealand landscape paintings by some of the great artists of the […]

Devilish Egg Spread or Party Dip

Devilish Eggs - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

Devilish Egg Spread recipe for sandwiches, party dips or as a base for fancy hamburgers.   Devilish Eggs – Photo Theresa Sjoquist Devilish egg spread is a versatile, cheap, tasty filling for sandwiches, as well as a base flavour in smart hamburgers with a little smeared on each of the top and bottom buns instead […]