Lauraine Jacobs

The olive harvest commenced in April in the warmer climate of New Zealand’s far north and in the many well established olive groves in the...

The harvest of the cold months presents a pick of the crop of wonderful vegetables that carry delicious sweetness to hearten and warm a hungry...

Here’s something comforting and restorative to lighten up with just as the season of flu lurks, along with another suspected wave of the dreaded coronavirus....

Often when I have been in a fish shop or standing at the fish counter in the supermarket and I have been asked, “How do...

Easter is rather late this year and will be the perfect time to move on from light salads and barbecues to more indoor cooking. Various...

With these lovely cooler nights I have found it easy to move away from salads and barbecues and am getting back into the kitchen to...

We’re now enjoying the absolute best of the stone fruit season. Cherries and other small early fruits are all but over, but plums, late nectarines...

Sweetcorn. Tomatoes. Watermelons. Herbs. There’s always an abundance of wonderful fresh foods from the vegetable garden in the middle of summer. They are perfect to...

Ever since my childhood I have always thought Christmas dinner was about chicken. It is an absolute favourite of mine, and I cannot remember my...

Our family has many Christmas food traditions, as you would expect when you come from a long line of food-loving cooks. My maternal grandmother raised...