Archive for the Food Category
I went down to the “Farmer’s Market” at Waitangi Park on Sunday. I use the quotes because I don’t believe that our local farmers are growing bananas and pineapples. There was lots of produce available and the prices looked ok but I think I’d prefer a real farmer’s market rather than just a collection of open-air itinerant fruit stands. Commonsense Organics a block away seems to do a better job of supplying local produce and labeling where it came from.
What was more interesting was the fishing boats tied up at the wharf. There were two of them, offering bluenose, blue cod, some shark, and a variety of other fish from Cook Strait. You could buy the fish whole or gutted, and even pay $3 extra to have them filleted for you. Remembering my own efforts at filleting fish from family holidays in the Marlborough Sounds I recommend paying the extra. The blue cod had sold out by 10am so it might be worth getting down there early.
I just transferred a batch of photos from the camera. It appears we’ve taken 352 photos since June and of those, 154 of them are of food. This is the consequence of living with a food blogger. The foods include:
- Spirulina potato wedges and sour cream
- Leek and potato pizza
- Roast vegetable pasta bake
- Apple and plum sponge pudding, served with icecream
- Tim-tam chocolate biscuits with the corners carefully nibbled off
- White bean and herb salad
- A red chilli
- Fruit salad with kiwifruit, apple, banana, pear and mandarin, served with yoghurt
- Eggs scrambled with spring onions on toasted ciabatta
- Hash stack with roasted capsicum, mushroom and onion, sauced with aioli, and avocado on the side
- Seared scallops on fettucine with aioli
- Fried haloumi
- Wellington Trawling’s fish and chips
- Potato, tomato and chickpea moroccan cassoulet
- Lemon, honey and ginger drink
- Curly potato fries from The Takahe in Takanini
- Tofu Combustion burger from Burger Fuel
- Crusty bread, feta, roasted capsicum, spicy olives, and hummus on a board at the beach
- Zucchini, onion and feta pizza
- Black seedless grapes
I think I’d have to choose number 10 as the best even if it doen’t look as spectacular as it tasted.
Kim has finally launched her new food blog, What Kim Ate. It’s all about food and will have recipes and photos and other such things. Best of all, it’s New Zealand focused and will therefore have winter foods when it’s winter in the southern hemisphere (I’m sick of reading about the people in the northern hemisphere who are currently enjoying fresh asparagus).
I’ll be doing the occasional guest post as Kim isn’t the only blogging cook in our household.