This week on Studio 2 I shared my favorite bacon and egg pie recipe – you’ll also be able to get the recipe in my new book which is out very soon!!!  But I give it to you on the video clip anyway.

With Fathers Day this Sunday – how about you make this for his lunch… speaking from experience I know your Dad will love it and he will be very impressed that you made it for him.  With a smile on your face and a plate full of pie it will the best present he will get?!!

If you are like me you will have heaps of homework at the moment… so if you want better grades here is a tip you might want to listen to!!! Some of my friends don’t eat meat – but you need to know that meat is loaded in iron and you need iron to carry oxygen to the brain and muscles, and keep you physically and mentally fit. If you don’t have enough iron you feel tired, can’t concentrate and find it harder to learn! Of course you can get iron from other foods but meat is the quickest and easiest place to get some – tastes good too! So there you have it, if you want to get better grades – eat lean beef and lamb – don’t laugh – it’s true!!

If you want more detail on why iron is good check this link out!

Hey check out TV2 this Tuesday 22nd June between 4 and 5.30 –  I went to Christchurch to meet Erin for an interview about this site and my cookbooks… and she asked me if I ever go skinny dipping!!!  I didn’t hear her and thought she’d asked me if I have bungy jumpy jumped … so my answer is quite interesting!!!  I’ll post the link soon – you may as well have a good laugh at me!?

The dish I cooked on the show, The Snack,  is in the recipe tab ( above) of this site…

In the meantime if you want to check out Erin Simpson have a look!

Last night for dinner I went all out and I cooked up the winning burger from last years Burger Competition created by Elizabeth Young at Bayfield High School in Dunedin. Wow Elizabeth – that burger was something else!!! I LOVED the flavours of date and coriander in the meat pattie. I must confess that I hadn’t heard of sumac that was used in the dressing – so I had to do a google and work out what I could use instead – I found that is was a ‘ spice with a slightly lemon flavour used in middle eastern cookery’ so I just used more lime and because you used coriander with the meat I figured could use that instead… so even though I didn’t do exactly what Elizabeth did I could see it was see how the favours all worked so well together with Apricot salsa, lamb date and coriander pattie and the sour cream dressing…
I like trying new foods and I like fruit with savoury foods – if this is outside your comfort zone you could play safe – but be bold and give it a go – you might surprise yourself. Here is your chance not to be boring!
For info on the competition check out … http://www.beeflambnz.co.nz/competitions/competitions-burger.html