Annabel Langbein - The Free Range Cook
Season 1
TV-G
Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, Annabel Langbein shares the secrets of her free range cooking style and shows how easy it is to bring good food into today's fast-paced world.
Join Annabel as she gathers the freshest fruit and vegetables from her own garden and travels to the source of the best seasonal ingredients. Her food hunting expeditions take her into secluded fiords to harvest giant crayfish, see her brave a local beekeeper's hives for the purest honey, and cast a line for the freshest salmon.
Returning to her simple cabin kitchen in her family's lakeside retreat, Annabel prepares a delicious menu to share with friends and demonstrates the clever cooking tricks and time-saving techniques that mean in next to no time you can have the most delicious meal.
Each episode provides recipes for a delicious starter, main course and dessert, as well as Annabel's signature "fridge fixings", and shows how easy it is to prepare artisan foods such as home-smoked salmon, home-baked breads and fresh cheese.
Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook promises to make everyone a star in their own kitchen.
Join Annabel as she gathers the freshest fruit and vegetables from her own garden and travels to the source of the best seasonal ingredients. Her food hunting expeditions take her into secluded fiords to harvest giant crayfish, see her brave a local beekeeper's hives for the purest honey, and cast a line for the freshest salmon.
Returning to her simple cabin kitchen in her family's lakeside retreat, Annabel prepares a delicious menu to share with friends and demonstrates the clever cooking tricks and time-saving techniques that mean in next to no time you can have the most delicious meal.
Each episode provides recipes for a delicious starter, main course and dessert, as well as Annabel's signature "fridge fixings", and shows how easy it is to prepare artisan foods such as home-smoked salmon, home-baked breads and fresh cheese.
Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook promises to make everyone a star in their own kitchen.
Where to Watch Season 1
13 Episodes
- Show Me the Honey
E3Show Me the HoneyAnnabel is fascinated with honey and so visits her local apiarist for a lesson in beekeeping. Returning home with a jar of just-harvested honey she sets about making Vanilla Honey Panna Cotta served with a fruit topping. This follows crispy pork belly served with roasted pepper pesto. - Harvesting Garlic
E6Harvesting GarlicGarlic is one of Annabel’s indispensable ingredients, and she’s off to help harvest the new season’s bulbs at a neighbour’s farm. So Annabel's garlic-growing neighbours are coming for dinner to share great food, wine and conversation. On the menu tonight are zucchini, feta and mint fritters; sizzling beef and salsa; and grilled summer fruit for dessert. - Green Grapes for Verjuice
E7Green Grapes for VerjuiceAnnabel visits her local vineyard across lake Wanaka and prepares a vintner’s dinner. Starting with sesame lavosh, and then baked olives with chilli and rosemary, and soy roasted almonds. The main course is roast pork with fennel, onions and apple, served with creamy polenta bake and braised red cabbage. To finish a verjuice nectarine jelly. - The Country Show
E11The Country ShowAnnabel heads to her local country show to guest judge entries in the homemade preserves competition. After the fun of the fair she heads back to her cabin to whip up her own harvest tomato sauce. Annabel harvests her sunflowers for seeds to put in her home made ‘busy people’s bread’ and takes it to the country show. For dinner tonight she’s making roasted beef and rocket salad. Followed by a tender beef steak with double mushroom sauce, and a side of tasty potato gruyere gratin, and a vegetable medley. For desert, sticky date pudding. - White Gold
E12White GoldAnnabel travels to the wild west coast of the South Island in New Zealand to net a feed of the tiny delicacy - whitebait. Along the way she learns the secret to cooking the perfect whitebait fritter. Cooked in an old cast iron pot, over a gas ring on the stony riverbed, whitebait fritters have never tasted this good. So it's only fitting Annabel should return the hospitality and invite the hosts of her whitebait expedition to a dinner featuring a double-baked whitebait soufflé. This episode: Twice Baked Whitebait Souffles, Spicy Garlic Croutons, Mixed Leaf Salad, Strawberry Cloudcake, Berry Syrup, the Ultimate Chocolate Cake. - High Country Muster
E13High Country MusterAnnabel cooks outdoors using her outdoor oven and barbeque. She makes some sticky buns to take up as morning tea to the sheep muster. Then she makes couscous with roasted vegetables, juicy barbequed lamb with a spicy rub, with a fresh pear and walnut salad. And for desert, honey lemon cream pudding.
