We had a fun day at the House yesterday…a local chef, Helen Filtcroft has expanded her business, Cook Learn Love to provide cooking classes in local hotels and B&Bs. The Taranaki Daily News were here and covered one of the lessons and created a lovely video you can see here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/84665018/chef-expands-cooking-classes-into-the-hotel-room-market It’s fabulous to think of […]
I can’t believe that I have not written about the Hour Glass prior to this…I started this post months and months ago, and then just couldn’t finish it. There is so much that I want to write about this awesome place – our ‘local’ and so much more. The only thing to do this place […]
We are members of the New Plymouth Wine Tasting Club. The club’s motto is “The best wine is the wine you like best!” The members have warmly welcomed us to New Plymouth at our monthly tastings and we have discovered and learned more about the wine regions of New Zealand and their talented and passionate wine […]
I get a bit giddy when new restaurants open in New Plymouth and I’m excited to say that we’ve had quite a few new openings lately. The New York bar at the Nice Hotel, Monica’s, Social Kitchen, Prohibition… The latest is in the new ‘Arts Quarter’ across from the Len Lye Centre, and in […]
Rod has taken over the potato planting – and we’ve had our first harvest this year! It is so fun to serve these to the guests as they really do have a fresh flavor and we are so prideful that they are grown onsite. It still amazes me that we can grow crops during the […]
We had a four year old in the House last week. I tried my best to make his breakfast fun – and of course yummy. It’s not often that we have children in the House, and I think I had even more fun than he did! […]
For me, one of the biggest keys that winter is here is when I plant our garlic. I’ve only lived in the Southern hemisphere for three years, and if I spend my life here, I don’t think I’ll ever get over winter beginning in June. I have stopped really paying attention to what month it […]
Eat, drink and be merry… …for tomorrow we die. The world is ending tomorrow! Tell us about your last dinner — the food, your dining companions, the setting, the conversation. There are many people in my life who live far away, or whom we’ve lost that I’d love to have dinner with… -nice garden dinner […]
You, The Sandwich If a restaurant were to name something after you, what would it be? Describe it. Hard one – but I think it would have to be the combination of a crisp French Tavel rosé and a little bowl of good quality crisps/potato chips. That combination of cold crisp wine, and dry salty […]
When we moved here, I missed three businesses that I could not find in New Plymouth. 1. Frozen Yogurt 2. Healthy Salad place 3. Car wash (meaning the type where you drive in, a bunch of people clean your car while you sip a coffee, and in 20 minutes, your entire car is clean. Not […]