{"id":334579,"date":"2026-03-17T21:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334579\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:17:18","slug":"pipis-pizza-cookbook-author-selling-her-beloved-hawkes-bay-homestead-all-things-property-under-oneroof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334579\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipi\u2019s Pizza cookbook author selling her beloved Hawke\u2019s Bay homestead, All things property, under OneRoof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Alexandra Tylee is selling her historic Poukawa Homestead to join husband Chris Morris in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The couple bought the homestead 14 years ago, where Tylee wrote her cookbooks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tylee, now a full-time painter, plans to continue her work and possibly explore cooking in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>The cookbook writer behind the much-loved Pipi\u2019s Pizza restaurant in Hawke\u2019s Bay is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/property\/hawkes-bay\/poukawa\/425-te-mahanga-road\/uZh9X\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">selling her historic farmhouse<\/a> to start a new chapter in her life.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Tylee and husband Chris Morris said goodbye to Pipi two and a half years ago, bringing to an end a near-20-year food adventure in Havelock North.<\/p>\n<p>Tylee is now a full-time painter, while Morris has recently landed a job as a firefighter in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Tylee told OneRoof that she would soon be joining him in the capital. \u201cI can\u2019t really stay in Hawke\u2019s Bay on my own. It would be a bit sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The couple bought Poukawa Homestead 14 years ago for $779,000. It was a big step from living above their restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alexandra Tylee at Pipi Cafe in 2015. Tylee and her husband, Chris Morris, have sold the restaurant and are moving to Wellington. Photo \/ Duncan Brown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c54fc1d54c0cb9e454ee15875ce2b46f.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">As part of the move, Tylee and Morris are selling their homestead at 425 Te Mahanga Road, in Poukawa, Hastings. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alexandra Tylee at Pipi Cafe in 2015. Tylee and her husband, Chris Morris, have sold the restaurant and are moving to Wellington. Photo \/ Duncan Brown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d1d20c34088ae6bb5291b1842443cccf.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">The kitchen is the heart of the homestead and is where Tylee created the recipes for her cookbooks. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alexandra Tylee at Pipi Cafe in 2015. Tylee and her husband, Chris Morris, have sold the restaurant and are moving to Wellington. Photo \/ Duncan Brown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/940ed367082333466437d4caa05a5f4e.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">The three-bedroom homestead is stylishly presented. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The couple loved character homes, so when they saw 425 Te Mahanga Road for sale, they knew it would be the perfect country home for both them and their two young sons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just got a lot of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poukawa Homestead was once the centre of a 20,000-acre sheep station, but over the years, land was sold off, and the house now sits on a manageable 2.44ha block.<\/p>\n<p>Tylee said the property had once been a big part of the rural community, noting that all the locals would flock there to use the large inground swimming pool, which predated the 1931 earthquake, and enjoy the big old-fashioned garden.<\/p>\n<p>Discover more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/high-end-switch-real-estate-boss-don-ha-offloads-his-heritage-home-for-over-10m-49096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Real estate boss Don Ha offloads his heritage home for over $10m<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/historic-home-that-gave-birth-to-a-suburb-hits-the-market-49105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Historic home that gave birth to a suburb hits the market<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/news\/49087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; &#8216;A true local legend&#8217;: Iconic roadside castle up for grabs on Auckland&#8217;s border<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just really lovely. It just settles into the land. It\u2019s really well positioned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tylee told OneRoof that when she first moved in, she had planned to change the kitchen, but she soon realised she didn\u2019t need to.<\/p>\n<p>She instead made it her own by upgrading the oven and installing a granite benchtop. A wall between the kitchen and living area was also knocked down to create more space.<\/p>\n<p>All three of her cookbooks were written at the homestead, with Tylee using her kitchen to refine the recipes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alexandra Tylee at Pipi Cafe in 2015. Tylee and her husband, Chris Morris, have sold the restaurant and are moving to Wellington. Photo \/ Duncan Brown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/10f3ef3b8ef657ea30fe3dc742025bae.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">Tylee is making a name for herself as a painter. Photo \/ Warren Buckland<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alexandra Tylee at Pipi Cafe in 2015. Tylee and her husband, Chris Morris, have sold the restaurant and are moving to Wellington. Photo \/ Duncan Brown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6382c5855ced5f6a6039b0d0567c85e0.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">The in-ground swimming pool predates the Hawke\u2019s Bay earthquake of 1931. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alexandra Tylee at Pipi Cafe in 2015. Tylee and her husband, Chris Morris, have sold the restaurant and are moving to Wellington. Photo \/ Duncan Brown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/91f5d62983e92d8dafbe541cefd9374e.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">Tylee and her family will be sad to say goodbye to the homestead. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Tylee still enjoys cooking, but spends most of her days painting in her studio in one of the lifestyle block&#8217;s many outbuildings, and she tells OneRoof she is busy working toward her next exhibition in May.<\/p>\n<p>She said it would be sad to say goodbye to the home. \u201cBut that\u2019s just life, isn\u2019t it? And someone else will enjoy it, and I\u2019m sure we will find somewhere in Wellington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI still love cooking, and we are moving to Wellington, so I might do something there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneroof.co.nz\/property\/hawkes-bay\/poukawa\/425-te-mahanga-road\/uZh9X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; 425 Te Mahanga Road, in Poukawa, Hastings, is for sale, tender closing March 26<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8211; Alexandra Tylee is selling her historic Poukawa Homestead to join husband Chris Morris in Wellington. &#8211; The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,1258,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-334579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}