CCU NURSES AND SPOUSES/FIANCES
KRIS WITH THE STUFFED HOG HEAD
SITTING AROUND THE BONFIRE, ARE WE IN MISSISSIPPI?
We were invited to a Wild Food Party on Saturday night by one of the women I work with in CCU who lives out in Kaipoi. We weren't sure what to expect but I prepared some beer biscuits (mom's recipie) and some banana pudding (with green food coloring) and drove 1/2 hour out of town to her place. We could hear the party before we could see it. It was quite a shin-dig (sp?)! Several big white tents were set up in the field behind her house right on the river. They had a band playing and several bonfires. A maori traditional dinner is called a hangi; see Wikipedia definition:
Hāngi (pronounced /hɑːŋi/) is a New Zealand Māori word for a method of cooking in an outdoor pit oven. It is done in New Zealand as an alternative to the barbecue, but often saved for special occasions due to the large amount of time and preparatory work involved.
To "lay a hāngi" or "put down a hāngi" involves digging a pit in the ground, heating stones in the pit with a large fire, placing wire baskets of food on top of the stones, and covering everything with earth for several hours before uncovering (or lifting) the hāngi. There are many variations and details that can be altered, but a hāngi produces rich, succulent food with a flavour quite unlike anything else.
Several strange things happened that night: Marion (S.African friend) caught a field mouse in a jar and decided to take him home as a pet...Petra had her first roasted marshmellow(she is 24 years old)...at the end of the party a guy played the bagpipes (Amazing Grace I think). It was fun but weird. The pulled pork was good, but the weirdest thing I had was a chocolate eclair that was labelled "cow dung" (even though I knew it was not dung, the label some how spoiled it for me).
6 comments:
JKT was doing OK until she saw the hog's head. Sounds/looks like it was an interesting place to try new stuff. Also sounds like a pretty big deal with a band and tents. But then I guess they pay nurses exhorbitant salaries down under.
I have been brushing up my cooking skills. I had a going away party for my friend Renee (you know that lived next door to me growing up on Saddlewood). She and her husband are moving ot Grands Rapid, so I wanted to throw an outdoor bbq. Unfortunately it rained out my deck, so I used an umbrella to coermyself while I cooked and we moved the party indoors. I made some chicken kabobs with grilled chicken, onion, bell peppers, pineapple and made a marinade with orange juice and soysauce. You would have been so impressed! No hog's heads for me.
matt--i am impressed!where is Renee moving to? 3 more weeks til i am home!
She moved to Grand Rapids Michigan. Her husband Johni got transferred to a Best Buy for Business up there. aAnd he has some family there too, so it worked out well.
Can't wait to see you soon! You can help me plan my trip!
So you have a friend from South Africa. Where is he from? I just got back and it was great there. I am definitely going back. Hope everything is going well.
Wesley, I think "she" is from johannesburg. Don't think she was into the hunting scene...more the shoe scene. I need to hear more about your trip though.
Blaine
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