Lewis Road Creamery and Whittaker’s Chocolate Milk

  PHOTO (this is where a photo of Lewis Road Creamery (and Whittaker’s) Fresh Chocolate Milk would be – but there is one small glitch – I can’t find any!)   Where is the stuff? There is nothing like short supply to create a frenzy of interest. While short supply helps to create a frenzy, […]

Posted by Admin on November 3rd, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Confectionery, Drinks and Wine, Featured Products

Whittakers and Griffins Cookie Bear Hundreds and Thousands Chocolate Block

    Whittakers is a well respected New Zealand chocolate company. Griffins produce the iconic and well-recognised Cookie Bear hundreds and thousands biscuits, which are vanilla biscuits covered in pink icing with multi-coloured hundreds and thousands sprinkles on top. These two companies have joined forces to bring us a chocolate block based on the hundreds […]

Posted by Admin on August 2nd, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Confectionery, Featured Products

Kiwano (Horned Melon)

  We had scooped out most of the pulp here, but some of the seeds encased in a green gel are still visible.   This is an odd beast. On a whim a friend and I bought one for $3.99 (NZ dollars) at the supermarket (actually, he had it in the trolley before I had […]

Posted by Admin on February 18th, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Fruits

Supermarket versus Farmers’ Market : Part 1

Supermarket Experiences: A friend and I were in the supermarket to find ingredients for dinner. At the checkout a young male checkout operator held up a vegetable and asked “whats this?” And I noticed the checkout operator next to him give a little smirk, clearly amused by his question. I had hesitated in answering as […]

Posted by Admin on October 1st, 2013 | No Comments Posted in Pot Luck (miscellaneous)