Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food…, in reply to Islander,
Sorry I gazumped you. Have you tried the smoked eggs at the Farmer's Market?
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@ Islander: OMG OMG you just reminded me of the post-September 4 fleeing to Dunedin with the children when I was lent a house by an angel, who also left a tub of the Gourmet Ice-cream Company's Brandy Snap icecream and a lemon curd icecream in the freezer as a destress pack. The brandy snap one was a-ma-zing, and the lemon curd was good too, and they worked well in the same bowl!.
The Dunedin market at the railway station was great for all sorts of yum things -- my boys still lust after the whitebait fritters.
The star was the Evansdale cheese factory just north of Dunedin: Tania (smoked farmhouse), the Laurel, and the Bay Blue. http://www.evansdalecheese.co.nz/pages/9/Store-order
On the way home we stayed at Moeraki for the night, and Fleur at Fleur's Place let we four squeeze in at the end of the bar to have a bowl of primo seafood chowder.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
good Cajun suburb like ByBayou
What a good name for South Brighton.
Casbah: three months doing a backwoods loop around Morocco gave me a lifelong aversion to tumeric. Smoked paprika num num: I get it from the Indian wholesaler just down from the Casbah on the opposite side of the road just over the Milton St corner in Colombo. Love that place for the spices, nuts, lentils rice etc (bulk and bagged) and other Indian things. They also have real halvah in several flavours.
I love food; and cooking (mostly). I will stop posting and go shopping now.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Upshot in Heathcote is my fave coffee. They now have a container shop with seats outside beside a paddock full of horses in Bridle Path Road. It's fair Trade and mine is organic Harrar/ Yirgacheffe mix, ground to between espresso and plunger.
Apples: BHU organic every time.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Fresh fish from the fish wholesaler in Wordsworth St in Sydenham (can't remember the name sorry). Good Greek takeaways from "Its All Greek to Me" in Sydenham.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Welcome Stephen. Most of my foraging places have gone or changed; so I'm making it up as I go along. My favourite supermarket was St Martins New World in Wilsons Road, as much for the village square-ness of the place as the goodness of the supermarket. That has gone but the new supermarket is rising as we speak and should be open in the spring.
Piko in Stanmore Road for wholefoods, Opawa Organics in Beckenham for same plus excellent organic veges and fruit at good prices and Retro Organics milk.
Opawa St Martins /Farmers Market on Sunday morning (pricey but good); Riccarton House market for gourmet. Riccarton Racecourse Sunday market for budget.
Holy Smoke bacon, cheese and salmon. The smokehouse, restaurant and deli is in Ferry Road but you can buy their products elsewhere.
Breads of Europe factory shop in Garlands Road for the linseed loaf and yoghurt loaf -- and they sell Holy Smoke bacon, Pics Peanut Butter (wondrous) and other bits and pieces in the small deli.
Reasonable sushi at South City, and another ok New World.
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Speaking of yoghurts, Clearwater cream-top organic yoghurt from Peel Forest is the best, anywhere, ever, especially the 2-litre buckets. Looks like you can find it everywhere: www.clearwaters.co.nz/find-us.php
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Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food…, in reply to Lilith __,
Toshi's biodynamic lettuces are worth mentioning too.
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The "now I'll make you envious thread"?
I'll plug for Banfields of Beckenham in Colombo St at the Beckenham shops because it has: hunky organic rump steak for 20 bucks a kilo; $1 venison patties; good sausages (not yer Auckland fancy but good organic beef and others). And Mark the butcher for has a band called the Sexy Animals, sometimes impersonates Elvis, and has posters of Rob Muldoon on the walls.
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Up Front: Something Chronic, in reply to Emma Hart,
Good timing Hebe: I appear to be on the brink of a relapse. Which means, of course, that I should be very careful with myself for the next week or so, and SlutWalk is Sunday.
Meh. The bone-chilling cold won't be helping.