Super salad
Fresh seasonal salad days are here, coinciding with cheese month. To celebrate both, this page, and page 56, have two cheesy salad recipes from Canterbury’s own cookbook queens, Margo Flanagan and Rosa Powers. Enjoy. HERBY QUINOA AND HALLOUMI SALAD Feeds: 4 Prep time: 15 minutes INGREDIENTS 3/4 cup quinoa 1 1/2 cups water […]
Sensational Tomato, Cucumber, Feta + Smashed Olive Salad
INGREDIENTS Pickled red onion: – 1/2 red onion, very thinly sliced – 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar – 1/4 Tsp sea salt For the pickled red onion, add the sliced red onion, apple cider vinegar and salt to a bowl. Toss to combine and allow the onion to pickle for at least 10 […]
Garden tourism
Local homes and gardens in gorgeous rural settings, each with its own story. Garden tours have been long-loved since their origins across the globe. Drawing from differing cultures and life practices, through royal and religious spaces, countries worldwide developed signature home and garden styles that others yearned to visit. Thus, ‘garden tourism’ was […]
Add harmony to your home
Turning your home into a happy, healthy environment may be as easy as adopting the principles of the ancient Chinese form of feng shui. The name (pronounced fung schway) literally means wind-water and is believed by many to use energy forces to harmonise individuals with their surrounding environment. Practitioners arrange objects in their […]
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