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Post by mark martucci on Mar 12, 2004 13:08:33 GMT -5
I know all the rumors. but i say that british food is sooooooooo good! I had some of the best food of my life there... granted it was at a really nice and expensive restruant, but it was verry british at the same time. I had roasted duck with fennel potatoes and some other stuff covered in a blueberry sauce. OUT OF THIS WORLD!
and beans on toast and saussages! mmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Post by adelinespace on Mar 13, 2004 18:18:19 GMT -5
i have baked beans on toast a lot... it's a kiwi thing as well.. must be derived from the english.. roast vegetables kick ass... so do preserves... sauce, chutney, pickle.. yum! xo
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Post by mark martucci on Mar 14, 2004 5:03:02 GMT -5
i'll need to stock up on beans now.
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Post by adelinespace on Mar 14, 2004 16:04:29 GMT -5
come to new zealand... we have plenty of beans! and other nice stuff.
xo
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Post by mark martucci on Mar 14, 2004 17:27:32 GMT -5
whats some good local food?
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Post by adelinespace on Mar 14, 2004 18:35:26 GMT -5
i dunno... in terms of actual new zealand cuisine, if you're a meat eater, you'd probably like lamb, i used to when i ate meat... but the thought of it is too horrible now...
there's loads of seafood. mussels, whitebait fritters (this is a stereotypical new zealand food), and we're famous for wine now, which is great, because we make some terrific wines (and vodka... 42below manuka honey flavor is amazing!)... but yeah, mostly seafood and game meats.... which is essentially what the stone age diet (supposedly a cancer cure diet) consisted of (as well as vegetables.
we take a lot on from the polynesian culture too. we have kumara (our own sweet potato), taro, and a lot of root vegetables that came from the islands. the traditional maori style of cooking is called a hangi (haa ngi). this is where they make a ginormous pit in the ground, have a huge fire with lots of rocks piled in, then they extinguish the fire, leaving the rocks REALLY hot, then pile the food in (wrapped up in, well i guess it would've been leaves hundreds of years ago, but tinfoil and giant wire baskets nowadays), cover it all in sackcloth and dirt, and leave it to cook pretty much over the day. the result is like a roast meal, where everything is super tender and has this beautiful earthy soily taste to it. it's quite an event!!
xo
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Post by mark martucci on Mar 14, 2004 19:19:51 GMT -5
wow that sounds almost as tastey as chocolate bottoms!
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Post by adelinespace on Mar 14, 2004 20:49:33 GMT -5
oh.... it IS..
xo
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Post by mark martucci on Mar 15, 2004 9:49:07 GMT -5
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Post by adelinespace on Mar 15, 2004 12:54:54 GMT -5
xo
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Post by mark martucci on Mar 16, 2004 12:48:56 GMT -5
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Post by adelinespace on Mar 25, 2004 1:10:12 GMT -5
did you have yorkshire pud? it's yumbo. and scones with cream and jam... delicious...
you guys call scones 'biscuits' and biscuits 'cookies'. yous guys are weirdos.
xo
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Post by mark martucci on Mar 25, 2004 9:52:49 GMT -5
we did a few times. but then we asked an old brit about it. and he said that it was differnt everywhere you go. so i had two kinds...
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