A Beginning

My girlfriend, Olivia, and I have always joked about making a food blog to exhibit the food we make. It's not as if we are the best, or most creative cooks in the world. The food we make tends to be more on the honest side, and less on the fancy, but we always have the tough requirement that it has to be full of flavour. Sometimes it can be the wrong flavours, but at least it has something there. Something we can't stand is bland, dry or tasteless. We are more Jamie Oliver than Gordon Ramsay or Peter Gordon... the Gordons. We like eating out, probably spending too much on quality over quantity. We spend too much on ingredients, and then have to skimp on other things during the week.

Olivia is a fan of rich, creamy flavours and anything with seafood in it... I mean anything (even Sea Cucumbers!), and generally all good food. I'm a big fan of clean and simple flavours, anything spicy and anything with chocolate in it. We live in Auckland, New Zealand, and are really spoilt for food to choose from (though Olivia complains there isn't enough Korean around).

Our plan. To cook as often as possible, and put whatever we have succeeded or failed with up here. If we go somewhere great in Auckland, or anywhere really, put that up here too. If we find an awesome new foodstuff, again... publish it here. My memory is bad at the best of times, so this should help at least remind us of what have liked.

So for starters... a product recommendation. Every paper in Auckland is singing its praises as well, but we may as well jump on the bandwagon. Piako Yoghurt. My god it's good. It's possibly the creamiest yoghurt I have ever tasted. We popped into Nosh the other day on Dominion road and picked up the Passionfruit and the Coffee Walnut (my new favorite) flavours. Both are amazing, and have a lush creamy texture and taste. The Coffee Walnut has large chunks of the nuts in there and a generous amount of coffee syrup. This is a blessing as other flavoured yoghurts can go a little light on the syrup side. Regardless, I would recommend this to anyone, and is well worth the ~$5 price per tub. Check it out online at - http://www.piakoyoghurt.co.nz/