New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

High-country cuisine ‘TUCK INTO MY SCRUMMY SCRAPS!’

When Sarah Burtscher used to live on a remote high country station in Tekapo, with a four-hour round trip to a large supermarket, she got used to making do with what she had, when need be.

Enjoying cooking for her family, the mum-of-three learnt ingenious ways to avoid food wastage and began to term certain dishes as “fridge cleaner” recipes – turning older, forgotten ingredients lurking at the back of the fridge or

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