Things to do on The Coromandel
Visit my studio
Here in Coromandel, I'm participating in the Arts Tour 2017 Open Studio event... So for the next two weekends I invite you to visit me at home and have a good look about my studio and see the work I've been doing... I've been taking photos for my next book, doing...
Wine Tasting at Cooks Beach
It’s not every day you get invited to a vineyard for a wine tasting, so I was delighted to receive the invite from Simon and Veronica at Mercury Bay Estate in Cooks Beach. It’s about an hour’s drive from Coromandel Town, so I decided to take the family, go on a Sunday...
Coromandel Seafood Festival
Yesterday, the sun shone on my little stall at the Coromandel Seafood Festival and I had an awesome day selling cookbooks and preserves and greeting cards. I was also lucky enough to be chosen to judge the cookery competition between three local chefs from Umu Café,...
My little corner of paradise…
I feel very lucky to live on the Coromandel Peninsula, here in New Zealand. Destination Coromandel, our local Regional Tourism Organisation, has produced some amazing short films featuring different parts of the Peninsula. Here is the one for the Northern Peninsula...
Fishy business
If you are out there catching snapper this summer, why not keep your fish frames and use them to make delicious stock or soup? To make stock: Add 3-4 fish frames and any other fish offcuts to a big pot. Add a roughly chopped onion, a roughly chopped carrot, some...
Liz’s Kitchen
There are a number of new eating options in Coromandel Town this summer. I am aiming to get round as many of them as I can and give you my views (terrible job I know, but someone has to volunteer for this sort of thing!) The first review is of Liz’s Kitchen...