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Another ex-pat Hi Shaz, originally from Baltimore, Maryland, but I've been in NZ since 1970. Food was pretty plain here then i.e. no real Italian food (pizza was a tin of Watties so-called spagetti tipped into a flaky pastry crust and baked!!), cheddar was the only cheese, no bread but Lanes...

If you want to go really gluggy, you could try battered and deep fried Mars Bars (Milky Way bars). For those who don't like sweets, you can make cheese scones by adding grated cheese to the mix, and a bit of cayenne pepper. Jam and cream scones or cheese scones, I love em both.

Robert is right - calculation is the best way to get things just perfect if your sweet cocoa lists the percent of sugar or the grams of sugar per gram of sweet cocoa. Sweet cocoa here is "drinking chocolate" and has things like whey powder and milk solids as well as sugar, but the packet I'm...

Works for cloth, too. I bleach my cloth once a week, but zap it (wet!) at other times. I've also used the microwave for a quick way to sterilize jars for pickling - half an inch of water in the bottom and boil on high for a few minutes. I've also zapped my wood chopping board, and dirty cane...

You mean like drinking cocoa? What does the label say about the ingredients on the cocoa packet? Have you tasted the cocoa? How sweet is it already? You might try mixing a teaspoon of sweet cocoa with 2.5 tsp of sugar to see how that tastes, first, then adjust the relative amounts of cocoa...

Hi Mudbug, I'm originally from Baltimore, Maryland, but my husband is a Kiwi.

Hi, I ended up at this site looking for someone who used a wooden shortbread mould. My search turned up a recipe from Ishbel, and it worked just great with the carved wooden mould I'd got second-hand. The mould had clearly been used by a child to make sand shapes, but sterilized and oiled, it...

Hi Shaz, I have the same problem "across the ditch". I've used an old Betty Crocker recipe with oil - for 8 inch pie, use 1cup plus 2 tablespoons of flour, half tsp of salt, half cup of salad oil, and 2-3 tbsp of water. Mix the oil in first with a fork, then add water as needed. It certainly...