Freya’s par-baked artisan bread

We’re about to try this out, but $6.15 for a loaf, when if I’d been ten minutes earlier I could have bought the real thing from the Pyrenees for $3.50 I am feeling like this is going to be a lot more expensive than it’s going to taste.

– The verdict –

Absolutely bloody delicious and well worth paying the ‘after hours’ fee for buying from Alberton Fine Foods. Edith, our one year old, chomped her way through four chunks of it with avocado, and we used the rest for steak sandwiches with caramelised onion, tomato and mayo.

The steak was from Nosh Dominion Road – the whole meal was fab. Much much much better than the working late alternative of takeaways (although we did a pretty good job of pimping Burger Winsconsin basic burgers last Friday – more on that later).

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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!

There are over 2,000 recipes and loads of people have already visited the site and voted.

Have your say today!

www.nzfavouriterecipe.co.nz

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The merging of the Lovelies

19th October 2009
Changes are afoot - soon this site will be merged with lovelynz.co.nz and all the blogs will be run out of the one site. Will keep you updated.

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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 at five to five on a Saturday (and possibly other days too) and cakes are all two for one.

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La Cigale french market

69 St Georges Bay Rd, Parnell, Auckland. Tel. 09-366 9361 www.lacigale.co.nz
Saturdays from 8am. Wednesday mini-market 12 - 6:30pm

Our first reaction when we got here was why have we not been coming here forever? The market was bursting with deliciousness. First stop was coffee and then a wander around. Strawberries were $5 for a huge punnet. Too many to eat all in one go so they’re now in the freezer.

The fresh produce down the back was far too exciting to photograph at the time. Bunches of fresh herbs, fresh garlic… fresh everything! Red currants, organic avocados for 70c (!), okra, artichokes, marrows, beautiful lettuce, sweet red peppers - oh I could go on. It felt like being in the market at Aix. Oh how we miss Aix in summertime.

Inside there was more. An absolute fount of cheeses (sorry if that’s not english) - but there were a lot. All at room temperature. All waiting to be tasted. Oh my.

Just before we left we grabbed a packet of Lebanese bread for $2. I think it was the same guys who do Takapuna market. Anyway - this is THE best lebanese bread we’ve had in a very long time. We had it filled with salad for our lunch that afternoon. It was absolutely perfect.

The organic box has been cancelled. La Cigale is our new weekly Saturday morning ritual. And this time we’re getting two packets of the Lebanese bread. Just the thought of what brilliant pizza bases they’ll make is enough to get us very excited indeed.

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