On the course of the holiday in Waitarere I had some wonderful gastronomic experiences which I will now share with you.
Fresh pipis hunter-gathered just down the road by our very own Manly Men. That's right, Lee, Bro-in-Law and tall skinny guy braved the crashing waves, howling winds and looking silly to dig for pipis. I didn't think they'd get any, but lo! They returned with many a pipi and they were very very nice. Sweet and sandy and good. Giffy found that if you peeled off an outer skin layer of the fishy bit you could get rid of most of the sand, which was a bonus.
New Years Margaritas. Shaved ice, margarita mix, tequila, Easi-yo strawberry 'squirt' and lots of fresh strawberries make for a delicious New Years treat. Big thanks to Hive Mind 1 and my darling husband for providing. Was very tasty.
Cadbury brand Crunchie flavour icecream + Cadbury brand chocolate sauce = ice cream heaven in a bowl. Seriously. Chelle was like "the only thing that could make this better is if the ice cream had hokey pokey nuggets in it." and then...the ice cream totally had hokey pokey nuggets in it!!! Perfection.
Barbecue flambe roast pork. The barbecue caught fire while roasting the pork, thanks to there being no sand or kitty litter in the grease trap tray, but it didn't matter. The pork was succulent, juicy and very very good. I love my brother in law, for he cooks good barbecue meat.
Expensive designer cheese from Lindale. It's a smoked havarti and man, it has everything I like in a cheese (apart from garlic), it's rich and strong, but has an aged tang to it. I ate it with seaweed rice crackers which overwhelmed the flavour a little, but together with fresh salad greens it was really really good.
Plain old onion dip. I can't help myself. It's ust reduced cream and Maggi onion soup but I freaking adore it. I love it with ready salted chips, plain rice crackers and fresh carrot (*winks at Giffy*). It's just so very creamy and good. Ack, I am such a kiwi.
PoF: Tokidoki
CO: food, clearly.
Off Topic, but I suspect there are readers curious...Giffy and Erik's quilt is now bound on two sides. I have done the first part of binding the remaining two sides, the machine quilting, and that leaves whip stitching by hand, corners and then the quilt label. I hope to get it done so I have time to wash and dry the quilt before the ceremony on Friday. Fingers crossed for me!
Posted by jenni at January 3, 2007 04:14 PM