Potato Parmesan & Garlic Pancake with Spinach Topping

Potato, garlic and parmesan pancake with spinach topping served - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

Potato Parmesan & Garlic Pancake with Spinach Topping This crispy potato and garlic pancake is fried until crisp one side, while sprinkled  liberally with parmesan cheese on the top. Then it’s turned over, cheese side down, to crisp on the bottom while spinach is added to the top. The result is a balanced,  nutritious, flavoursome […]

Pineapple Growing in New Zealand

Brazilian Pineapple turning from red to pink - eventually will become ivory coloured

Growing the edible red Brazilian pineapple, Ananas bracteatus, in New Zealand provides a viable commercial crop for flowers and also potentially for fruit. Growing Pineapples in New Zealand Having studied naturopathy, Clinton Scott became entranced by herbs as medicines and so began down a new track of permaculture, and self-sufficiency, developing along the way a […]

Bowen Therapy for NZ Horses

Helen Peart, Bowen Therapy practitioner, with horse

New Zealand Bowen Therapist, Helen Peart, applies this alternative healing mode to horses with huge success. Bowen Therapy centres around the fascial tissue in the body and incorporates specific movements applied in sequence to acupuncture and acupressue points. The treatment incorporates a timed interval between each movement, allowing the fascia to release, and in a […]

Review – The Soul’s Religion by Thomas Moore

Tane Mahuta = Waipoua Forest, Northland, New ZealandThe Soul's Religion by Thomas Moore

The Soul’s Religion – Thomas Moore Cultivating a profoundly Spiritual Way of Life. A companion to Care of the Soul. HarperCollins The Soul’s Religion is essentially a rendition of Thomas Moore’s personal journey through and towards spirituality. He touches again and again upon his birth given religion, Catholicism, but stands apart from it, open to the entry of […]

Review – The Stranger at the Palazzo D’Oro by Paul Theroux

The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro by Paul Theroux

The Stranger At The Palazzo D’Oro Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton Books Paul Theroux creates highly evocative ambience in each of the six tales in his collection, The Stranger at the Palazzo D’Oro. In the title story, about bored wealthy tourists in an Italian seaside resort of the early sixties, we follow an older man revisiting his […]