Lockdown Dinners: Let your slow-cooker do all the work

Are you sick of cooking every single night during lockdown? Let an appliance do the hard work for you! Read our latest blog on why you should pull your slow-cooker out from the back of the cupboard.

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How to make IKEA's famous Swedish meatballs at home

Furniture giant IKEA has shared their famous Swedish meatball recipe so that you can make it at home during the lockdown.

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Some of our favourite Kiwi chefs are serving up home-cooking videos on social media

Some of New Zealand’s top chefs are lending their expertise to home cooks during the lockdown. Here are some of our favourites.

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Lockdown Dinners: 15 Essential Slow-Cooker Recipes

While slow-cooker recipes are great all year round, they shine most in the cold winter months. These 15 beef and lamb recipes stand out among the rest and are easy to make during lockdown.

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Lockdown Dinners: The best one-pot recipes

Winter is on the way and we know that the last thing you want to do after cooking is dishes. These incredible one-pot (or one-pan) recipes will satisfy your comfort food cravings while cutting down on the cleaning up.

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WHAT'S FOR DINNER: Kerala beef curry, freezer-friendly recipes, cooking with kids and health tips

This week on What’s For Dinner? we tantalise your taste buds with a delicious curry from Ambassador Tejas Nikam, and share our collection of freezer-friendly recipes, as well as a video of Shaun Clouston cooking lamb koftas and advice for healthy living.

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Being gentle on ourselves

Taking care of one self usually gets put at the bottom of your priorities and a pandemic doesn’t make it any easier. Fiona Windle shares some ideas that have lightened up her days, and with the kids and friends from afar, creating lockdown memories.

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Cook once, eat twice

Takeaways – it seems many of us are really missing them. It’s probably not just the taste we’re missing, it’s also the ease of the drive-through, pick-up or Uber delivery along with the time saved thinking about what to eat, cooking it and the clean up afterwards.

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Regina Wypych
Soul Soups

Brrrr, the temperature’s suddenly dropped and snow is even falling in some parts of our beautiful whenua. When winter weather starts to bite, it’s a perfect time for comfort food and a steaming bowl of nourishing soup ticks that box.

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Regina Wypych
WHAT'S FOR DINNER: New Zealand Lamb for Easter, easy lamb recipes, Jack Crosti's burger, foodie podcasts

This week on What’s For Dinner? we picked the perfect leg of lamb recipe for your Easter celebrations at home, a selection of easy lamb recipes you can cook any time, Jack Crosti's burger cooking video and our favourite foodie podcasts.

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Homemade Beef Burgers with Ambassador Chef Jack Crosti

With lockdown in full force, you may be missing your favourite burger takeaways. We know there is nothing better than a delicious juicy beef burger and Beef + Lamb Ambassador Chef, Jack Crosti has the perfect recipe.

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Nutrition, immunity and Covid-19

Our nutrition team have compiled a Q & A regarding nutrition, immunity and COVID-19 to answer some of your questions and perhaps stop you spending unnecessary dollars.

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Regina Wypych
Time to catch up on some inspiring foodie podcasts

With all of us having a little more time on our hands at the moment, listening to those podcasts that you’ve had on your list could be a good way to pass the time. We all have our favourite podcasts, but if you are looking for some new inspiration here are some recommendations from around the globe. All have a foodie theme which may also inspire you to jump into the kitchen and get cooking!

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WHAT'S FOR DINNER: Beef korma curry pies, Takeaways, cooking with Shaun Clouston, nutrition for elderly, food on a budget

This week on What’s For Dinner? you will get to try our stunning beef korma pie and more-ish takeaways at home. Cook mince & onion pie with Shaun Clouston and his kids, learn about nutrition for the elderly and how to eat on a budget.

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Isolation Eats: Takeaway classics you can cook at home to help you survive the lockdown

Missing your favourite takeaways? With the lockdown in place, they’re impossible to get, but these recipes will let you recreate some of your favourites at home.

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Yesteryear to COVID-19 – Reminiscing about cooking shows

Fiona Windle has used the lockdown to reminisce about the TV cooking shows that she grew up with in the 80s and 90s.

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WHAT'S FOR DINNER: Mexican-style mince, casseroles, stews, immunity, cooking tips, foodie films

This week on What’s For Dinner? we want to help you get through the lockdown as best as possible. We picked comforting mince, casserole and stew recipes for you and want to share our latest articles on immunity, cooking tips and foodie films.

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Sharing food in a bubble

Sharing food is one of those acts that brings us closer together and whilst yes, some of us will still be doing that within our warm, cozy, protective ‘bubbles’ for those alone, in a pair or still separated from other loved ones, sharing a meal, an act we may once have taken for granted, is something that’s painfully hard to give up.

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12 foodie films that will make you want to cook

Do you love to what movies where characters stir soup or chop onions or swirl a fork of spaghetti over a plate? While in most films, food largely happens off-screen, here is a list of ten foodie films where cooking and eating plays an integral part of the plot, rather than merely being background. How many have you seen?

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How to cook with confidence and make meals your own

You don't have to have all the ingredients to follow a recipe, or to make a great meal. Here’s some advice for how to make the recipe your own.

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