Pilot lamb slivers with Robyn's veges

The lamb is so nice the way Steph cooks it in her secret marinade, and the roast sesame seeds do the trick on the carrots.

Maori potatoes

They grew in a not so sunny spot, so are late, but worth the wait.
From left... Huakororo, Karuparera, and takurawhiti. They have a very full buttery flavour.

Spicey sossies

Featuring my homegrown solid beefsteak tomatoes.

Pukaki salmon

Pan fried crispy with cracked pepper, yet almost outdone by Steph's amazingly tasty vege cupcakes and avocado coleslaw (trying to chomp through all our cabbages).

Italian pasta

With the beauty beefsteak tomatoes from Pete's glasshouse over in Runanga, and roasted walnuts from on my back lawn.

Forest berries

We once again augmented our riding adventures on our Hanmer forest family get together with some foraging for blackberry treasure. This year the cold summer has put the rippening back a few weeks, however with perseverence we picked enough for a large pie which easily feed all 20 of our relatives.

Beef, lentils and kale

Foraged feast

We caught a few 'cream fish' over at Wainui and with crisp old heirloom variety cabbage and carrots from our garden they made for a wholesome meal.

Fried tofu

Melanzane and zucchini

Stuffed with brown lentils.

Chilli mussels

We kayaked from Sumner around Lyttleton heads On the return I dived down, with no mask, and foraged us a feed of mussels. Cooked with plenty of NZ made olive oil, garlic and chilli.

Moana

We kayaked around the lake, stopping to camp at Uncle bay, where we cooked over a fire.

Vege cupcakes, glazed beetroot, tahihi'd organic brown pasta

Lamb slivers

Stuffed capsicums

Containing a very savoury organic brown rice mix, with purple maori potatoes.

Peppered Pukaki salmon

Special carrots

Mighty fine italian

Our garden veges with little rice and vege rostis

Mushroom gratin

Vegetable mix

Burra kebab beef with huakororo spuds

Whitebait for breakfast

Birthday brill

Mum likes fish so we cooked her a gingery treat, followed by a fully organic chocolate torte made 100% by Steph.

Red curry

Stir fried organic lamb

Tabouli, aubergine and slopey kumera

Tofu miso soup

With wholemeal organic pasta, and Stefan's 'four seed' organic bread.

Gluten free muffins

Maybe the best savoury muffin I've tasted. Steph whipped them up, so I'm not sure what the composition is but they involve onion, garlic, walnuts and cream cheese. Served with our yellow heirloom variety carrots.

Spicey Italian sausages

lamb slivers and kumera

Lunch and dinner

Salmon, red cabbage salad with really good NZ olive oil and balsalmic vinegar, and delicious kumera sunflower seed cupcakes.

The last supper of 2006

We whiled away a fine evening in rustic surrounds... a very mellow way to see out a great year.


















The buns were baked from scratch before our eyes, and the local venison sizzling from the BBQ was really very pleasurable to eat with the plum sauce. Lubricated by Otago's finest cider.























Rich chocolate cake with icecream heartily scoffed as the Gypsy Pickers started their gig in the marquee. Due to some indulgence in seconds, it was well over an hour later that we reached the dance floor for some boogying.

Blueberry lunch

These were from a small organic producers roadside stall... the largest and strongest flavoured blueberries ever tasted.

Simple wholesome camp meal

Hangdog ho-ho-hangi

A feral xmas dinner at the Hangdog rock climbers camp. The sun was beating down, making digging the pit for the hangi hot work. It had to be a big hole to fit enough food to feed thirty hungry climbers.
































































We cooked pork, chicken, and lamb forequarters which I boned out and rolled with garlic and herbs. The veges were from the local organic community garden.



























































Relaxing down by the river after a big feed au!