Following the publication of Elizabeth David's influential Mediterranean Food in 1951, kitchenware was beginning to achieve a desirable status and, by the use of imaginative shopfitting and a huge cast-iron cooking range, baskets, casseroles, knives, pots and pans suddenly became fashion items.
The leaves were used for making anchor ropes and fishing lines, cooking mats, baskets, sandals and leggings for protection when travelling in the South Island high country, home of the prickly speargrasses (Aciphylla) and tūmatakuru or matagouri (Discaria toumatou).
The steam will pass through the basket, cooking the food.
When the food is done cooking, remove the basket from the steam.
Use the skills you're best at, such as knitting, crocheting, woodwork, sewing, decoupage, putting together a basket, cooking, etc.
Lurra's chef, Damian Surowiec, spent weeks in Getaria, a small town close to San Sebastián, learning a method of cooking fish in baskets.
A more recent one, titled "Holy Motherload," reads, with an accompanying photo, "50's 15-piece camp cooking set, vintage picnic basket and a camp blanket.
Coat a basket with cooking spray.
The typical Roto-Broil also came with a couple of accessories — a spit for rotisserie cooking with a removable basket-like attachment — that look a bit like spare tools from Frankenstein's lab.
For Christmas everything she asked for was related to cooking, she has her own basket of kitchen utensils in the kitchen and her very own cooking show on Youtube, "The Very Serious Cooking Show".
