STRAWBERRY COCONUT CRISP
Keep IT FRESH, SEASONAL AND GENEROUS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY – keep IT DELICIOUS!
Keep it Delicious is the home for my fresh, seasonal recipes that are packed full of flavour and colour. It is also a place where I share my thoughts and musings on food and life at Briarwood, in Greytown, New Zealand. Welcome.
~ Marc
![…..[ louise slice ]
But with a twist! Quince Louise slice - a kiwi classic with a sophisticated twist using one of many jars of last seasons quince + star anise jam that I made. I do wonder what Princess Louise of England, Queen Victorias dau](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1731732120919-5LK6O89717B429NATHJR/image-asset.jpeg)
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Strawberry & vanilla bean crumble:
Crisps, crumbles or cobblers, some of the easiest and most versatile fruit desserts out there, made in a moment for a not so warm Greytown spring evening.
#keepitdelicious
#keepitsimple
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In a vase on Sunday…..](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1729977293761-YW4UISOJJH3U7WK65L82/image-asset.jpeg)
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A tiny stretch of our garden, to be honest a favourite, slightly unkept and scruffy, it’s when it's like this I enjoy it the most with it’s rambles, unkept and unwanted foliage from the season just been and its vibra](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1729757103435-L7HFP3SQUPLZ9OJMWDPA/image-asset.jpeg)
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Jesus Christ man! Sorry but not sorry - Salted Caramel Millionaires Shortbread!
Enough said!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1729656617204-RJI4A4L5WLP77YY2EOL8/image-asset.jpeg)
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Salted chocolate + strawberry tart
The taste of summer and the appearance of road side vendors selling large punnets of strawberries and fruit is finally here. Which means my favourite, gooseberries are next in line! but for](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1729400574534-Y3QOFMMXBGK9KJFBM4ZD/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ tulips ]
Nearly the last of the tulips at Briarwood, with just a handful of these potted beauties left w/ their emerald green beaks, the 'Irene Parrot' & the 'Rococo Parrot’ will be transferred from there humble outdoor plastic](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1728864547660-NB4NIZIAXJ461YJH1QIC/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ peonies ]
The season has begun!
#whatbudget🤷‍♂️](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1728599505390-X1W39XQ3M8P24G37HJ48/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ briarwood life ]
I asked my husband the other day “why do we have no room to put anything anymore?” He laughed! and replied “because you keep buying more shit!”
Maybe this image explains why….?
#keepitsim](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1728168422150-9QAF7PO23V5KYEFTRI0F/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ chocolate basque cheesecake ]
Chocolate, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla what better things to eating right now after a winter season of eating cheesy pasta bakes, satisfying pies, hearty stews, fruit crumbles and soft centre puddings&helli](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1727993247133-QUPOUB1JZL3Y0YA902J3/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ Otherwise occupied ]
So I now have a monkey sitting on a loo reading a paper in my living room and why not! I love it!
This work was from Joanna Braithwaite's latest exhibition Call of Nature at PG gallery192 in Christchurch and was ins](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1726890502300-RN32EBXT8123AKNB07J0/image-asset.jpeg)
![…..[ asparagus ]
At the restaurant we celebrated asparagus like no other vegetable…in fact all menu balance went out the door with asparagus appearing in multiple places all over the menu. In my view it is a vegetable that is truly sea](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1726789720527-3919K620NF6TZ9T2JA8Y/image-asset.jpeg)
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It's not often I buy flowers these days, more often than not it’s a forage, some roadside weeds, something wild, something textural, something blooming or perhaps huge bunches of something botanical and it was only a few wee](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fffe72d6384c14b434efe4/1725342667238-ATXBQ0TAHU8X33Q7OVG5/image-asset.jpeg)