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No tinned beetroot in UK but I miss the canned grapefruit they had there. Jelly tip Whittakers choc is great. You can buy Pavs in Wairose at Christmas time
At my Nan's Tangi, (Maori funeral), we had a hangi for lunch. But instead of tinfoil all the food was wrapped in kete (traditional flax bags). The kete lends an extra herbal note to the food. Best kai ever.
In the late 70s I worked at Cadburys in Dunedin and the quality of the chocolate and the biscuits was much better then. Many have boycotted Cadbury's since they sold it to Aussie and put hundreds of Dunedin people out of work. They quality is awful now and they have changed classic products like Roses and Continental chocolates and added novelty flavours and pop rocks and all kinds of rubbish which ruined them. I buy the much better Whittakers for my dad who is a chocolate lover.
@@MagentaDinosaurs I only like Cadbury NZ not Aussie and NZ Nestle. I hate Aussie chocolate, icecream, butter and cheese. Spoilt by groeing up in NZ with the best.
@@fairynuff167 Oh right, yeah I miss NZ Cadbury, although I've always preferred Whittaker's because its often not as overwhelmingly sweet and is creamier in my opinion.
It wasn't an Australian company that brought Cadbury, it was Mondelez an American company that owns Kraft as well as many other products. Cadbury was never a New Zealand company it was founded in the UK in the 1820's
Chiming in 2 years late but “Ketchup” didn’t really hit our shelves until the late 90’s. It was always canned tomato sauce prior and Wattie’s was and still is King! Love your work guys. Brian’s facial expressions are priceless! 😂
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU BOTH! I enjoy the friendship you obviously both share and you invite us to be part of the conversation. Thank you both for allowing some light into our day...have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing you both again
Wow...what a beautiful comment...thank you so very much. We love having you with us and we appreciate you giving us your attention while we waffle onto each other. It's the people around us that make this show so lovely. Thank you x Liz and Bri 🥰
I moved from UK to New Zealand August 2022, love the kiwi way of life. Spent a week in Rotorua with my in-laws and had a family Hangi. Whittakers Chocolate the best in the world.
Love this video, you guys are great. Asparagus rolls are the best. Laughed at the tension on Bri’s face not knowing what you were going to make him eat Liz. 😂😂
Asparagus rolls are always the first plate to empty, so you have to be in quickly to get any. My favourite ones have cream cheese instead of butter, and plenty of salt and pepper.
Sadly the reason for the change in Cadbury chocolate is the Americans bought the company and changed the recipes. Substituting oil for dairy products, corn syrup and other additives.
Thanks for sharing Hayley. I love roasting kumera with capsicum, garlic and a few fennel seeds and then sprinkling it with feta and chopped hazelnuts...SO lovely! have a great week 🥰
I stumbled upon your channel tonight, and I love it. Your appreciation for this country and our culture and your amazing pronunciation of te reo has me a huge fan. Thank you for your appreciation
The way you speak of paua makes me crave it😂.. you must try the Maori way of having it. Creamed Paua & fried bread👅👅. Raw fish, Kina,paua, mussels, Crayfish. Tuatua, scallops, cockles,oysters. Missing NZ seafood sm.
Hey guys. I'm Maori and have been living in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia for 14 years. I'm a Watties Tomato Sauce addict and have been forever. They sell it here in some places in what they call the 'Kiwi Corner'. I'm 52 and have been eating the canned sauce since before they started packaging ANYTHING in plastic. I've always said the sauce in the bottle doesn't taste the same and apparently I was right. I was told by an ex-Watties worker that Heinz makes the Watties Tomato Sauce in the bottles. I am SO happy I was right 😉
I work at Watties, Hastings and I can assure you we are still making Watties (not Heinz) tomato sauce, but I have a feeling things aren't going well at the moment.. Stock up mate...
The Tomato Sauce drama had me in fits of laughter😂 I'm a born and bred Nzlander and I happened to stumble across this. Totally loved watching you two, you are so funny!! And your review made me so proud ❤❤ You have gained a new subscriber!!
My take on breakfast was to adapt a common hangover food from over here:"fry some bacon in a pan, take out, darken the vogel bread in the pan on both sides (using the bacon fat), take out, next is an egg easy over, to serve: bread on bottom, ham and the easy over egg on top, sprinkle with some chives, salt to taste" ... try it ;) It's not "kiwi food" but i had to make 7 in the end i think :D Works better with even darker bread though...
@@ItsaDrama only if yu have an avacado tree, we get rejected export ones you buy at high prices, I was raised on a 3 acre apple orchard in Hamilton, i grew up in NZ export country. If you come to the Waikato i can give yu some childhood travel experiences, and where kiwi kids got taken for a holiday, if thats a blog theme? PS, you need a Caravan for the real experience,
Christmas in my house in NZ we always have Christmas pudding, mince pies(I've never called it fruit pies) and a pavlova coz no matter how full you are there is always room for pav
You gotta try Creamed Paua - which is minced Paua fried in butter and garlic, finished off with cream Kina Roe (Orange tongue) on fresh Māori Fried bread with a generous amount of butter
Love you two, you are so happy and full of energy, it's infectious. Must be good for your ratings. Anywhoo, great vlog, great choices and very well done. Love the effort Liz puts into pronouncing the Maori words. Ka pai👍🏻🤗
Whittaker's chocolate is the best Greenlip mussels raw is amazing Kūmara (purple) is the best - not a fan of gold sweet potato All the seafood is amazing in NZ I can confirm the NZ Cheese and Butter is way better than Aus Cheese and Butter Love me some Vogel miss it so much
Try your Pāua with cream Your cooking method is like creamy mushrooms (brown your onions & dice pāua together. Add cream, take your time, a bit of corn flour to thinning) honestly you will love it this way!!
You are so welcome Jason! Hopefully it won't be long before you can get back to NZ and get your hands on one of those famous pies! Have a lovely weekend 😊🇳🇿
IM from NZ and have lived in Australia for 30yrs and still eat mince on toast and my kids who have never been to NZ love mince on toast with worcestershire sauce. im hungry now
I love my mussells in a half shell,with coconut cream and chopped spring onions,and a bit of chilli,and then cook them in the oven for around 10 minutes.
Try a bit of mayo in the asparagus roll. When you do your Otago/Southland trip, make sure you try cheese rolls. They are a specialty in the south and are amazing.(on a yet to screen in NZ, Celebrity Masterchef Australia had an NZ actress as a contestant who served these to the judges. They loved them). Also try Blue Cod. And don't forget about Yams
Love this Mia! Thank you so much for the tips, not only will we try a cheese roll but we will film it and show you 👍 Can't wait! Have a wonderful coming weekend and thank you for taking the time to share this with us! 😊
@@ItsaDrama Cheese rolls anywhere from Oamaru south. They have to be fresh, not sitting in a pie warmer for an hour. The further south you go the better they get. And yes, Blue cod, you have to try some if you like seafood. Great vid again. 🙏
Blue cod is to die for! I spent a year in Te Anau as a first-year teacher and the fish in the fish 'n' chips was blue cod. We could only order it on Wednesdays. Every kid and teacher ordered it!
I like the waffling chats. In South Africa we always loved the All gold tomato SAUCE. 😊 now here in China they don’t have great chocolate. Mostly dove and other stuff, but we went to an import shop and Oh my!! The New Zealand chocolate was amazing. We had the plain milk one. Best chocolate I’ve had in the years living here. Me being all obsessed about moving to NZ one day we had to try the whittaker’s.
whittakers is generally a little more bitter than cadbury used to be, but modern cadbury is awful (they changed the recepie somewhere along the way, made the blocks smaller too).
Good list of foods, not keen on the kina myself but certainly love most nz seafood. Nothing like a nice leg of lamb slow roasted with nice sides. Thanks for another good one. :)
East coast Kina is sweeter than west coast. Break them in half, use a stick or spoon to scrape the roe/orange stuff, from around the shell, keeping them inside the half and stir it all together inside the shell and "bottoms up" like you would eat an oyster from the shell, many people only eat the orange part, but all the flavor is in the rest of it. Try it for the first time when you're hungry!
I have a recipe for a pav from my grandmother...is different to most pavs as you do it in shape of a pizza and has only 1 egg...then you pile on the cream and fruit on top, Once cream and fruit juices soak in goes kind of caramely MUMS PAV ONE EGG PAVLOVA Ingredients 1 Egg White 1 Tea-Cup Sugar 1 Teaspoon malt Vinegar 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence 2 Tablespoons Boiling Water 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder Method Put all ingredients, (except Baking powder) in a bowl. Beat till thick. Stir in Baking Powder. Place on Greased paper and bake at 120 Deg. C or 250 Deg F. for 1 hour 15 mins. leave to cool ad top with cream and fruit
Thanks. Going to write down your nana's recipe in the hopes it's like my nana's. Absolutely loved hers, and loathe the weird wet marshmallow things that pass for pavs nowadays.
@@robmort67 Ta. Will definitely make one when the strawberries come down in price after Christmas. My nana's pavs had a slightly chewy centre. Not really chewy but it sort of dissolved as you ate it. It was my favourite part.
Nooo - Vogel ha was Swiss! He came to NZ and at the time there was only white bread available so he wanted the traditional European bread. I grew up with a "crusty" Aunt before it was fashionable and Vogel bread was considered very "hippie" in the 1970s. She gave me a treat when I visited her on Saturday mornings - Vogel bread toast with "raw" honey on toast ("raw" honey was considered poison in the 1970s in NZ because of the risk of botulism). I still love Vogel with honey based on those memories :)
That's my daughter's and Brian's favourite too...honey on Vogel toast! Thanks for the lovely little history lesson, we really appreciate you taking the time to share! 😊
Grew up on Mince on toast - anything on toast!! Vogels... Yum! and I agree - Americans put marshmallows on the sweet potatoes. So much sugar! We did have sugar sandwiches here too - left over from war or depression days. Asparagus rolls came from when we didn't have much else but tinned food in NZ. And it turned into a traditional food. Decent salt and pepper . Get hold of an edmonds cook book and find a pizza pie - scone dough with timed spaghetti with pineapple on top. Yum!!! Pies.
I’m a kiwi immigrant to the UK. Love your channel folks! Of all you described here, Watties tomato sauce is the one I can’t do without. It’s got a savoury peppery taste that makes Heinz Ketchup taste like sugar by comparison. Your pie talk pushed me over the edge…I need some breakfast!
So nice to have you with us Ed! How funny that you should say that about the sauce, it's the topic of mine and Brian's main conversation at the moment 😂Hope you are loving your life in the UK, and while we have the best pies in the world in NZ we Do miss a proper Cornish pasty!! 🥧Have a great week! 😁
asparagus rolls were often seen at group functions, funerals etc. i hated asparagus but would always try one just to see if i still hated it - in my 30's i got kidney stones and came across a cure which included eating boiled asparagus as part of the process. it was torture but worked a treat. (i should say the torture wasn't the stones, just having to taste asparagus) i also remember hangi's as a child. i don't know if it's still done the same way but back then they had all the food wrapped and put in cages which were placed on the hot coals/rocks, then they laid wet sacks over the cages before covering in dirt. the sacks protected the food from the dirt but also provided moisture to steam the food as it cooked. i always thought hangi tasted of wet sack even though everything was so tender. BUT to anyone out there, don't trust my opinion - i was a child and probably a picky eater lol
This is great Richard! Thank you so much for sharing your kiwi childhood memories. Interesting that the asparagus cured the kidney stones too...one to remember! Have a great week and thank you again for sharing with us, we really appreciate it😊
Love mince on toast for brekky! Vogel bread used to taste even better, theyve changed the recipe, I remember because it was my favorite. There was another one called Reisensteins, it was real dark brown almost black, very moist, I miss that one. I found a recipe for Vogels, so I can make it in San Francisco when I crave it. I can eat loads of those asparagus sandwich's. ( pah (like maori pa)- wah = paua. Maori never used to be big, its because of Maccas and KFC
Would love to hear if it tastes the same Monique! I wonder what they put in it to make it so crumpety? Glad that you are finding your bit of kiwi nosh there in San Fransisco 😊Thanks so much for being here and have a great week ahead!
I can’t believe it. For more than probably 50 years I have lived in forgotten memories and you brought Back mince on toast. I had to get dressed and go to Walmart at 12.30 am and buy a pound of hamburger. Got home made a mince stew and when I woke up at 8.30 am I had mince on toast. Such a delightful wealth of memories. Only deviation instead of tomato sauce I used worchester sauce. Heaven. In 1973 I brought my American girlfriend to New Zealand to get married. My 2 sisters said she couldn’t marry their brother unless she could make a Pavlova. She did and served it at dinner a few days later and was declared an honary Kiwi and told she could marry their brother. Later on I was told horrible thing and never again. But over forty years she often made a Pavlova on special occasions. Ahh such memories. Mince on toast. Back on the menu again.
This is awesome Ron! That really warms our hearts to know that you had mince on toast for breakfast after watching our vid! Yay!! Hope it tasted as good as you remember! Sending you much love 🥰
Now that sounds delish...Anything with cream and chilli is a winner hey?! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to say hi! We really appreciate it 😊
My. dad used to make something similar that was served in the cafeterias on the air force bases called "S@$t on a Shingle". It was ground round (mince) cooked with a salt, pepper, flour, and milk and served on toast cut into triangles. You could substitute minced sausage for regular mince. I really enjoy it! Regarding those sugar sandwiches give cinnamon toast a try. Mix a little cinnamon with your sugar, butter some slices of bread, butter one side, sprinkle cinnamon/sugar mixture over it and bake it till bread is the consistency of toast. It's great for breakfast.
Whenever I come home to NZ I buy 6 of the extra thin Vogel's to take back with me so it lasts longer and freeze it, such yummy toast and yes NZ has the yummiest pies 🤤🤤🤤
Hāngī are great they have is sort of right they gig a hole and put wet sacks in the bottom then put hot rocks from the fire then more sacks then wrapped food in leaf or tinfoil something . then more sacks and they layer the food up until the top where they put more hot rocks on top of sacks then more sacks on the rocks then covered in soil and left for about 4 to 6 hours sometimes longer as required for the bigger amounts of food being cooked :)
Our pleasure Sally! Thank you so much for being here, we really appreciate it. Have a great week ahead (and not long now before the pudding comes out 😂)
Have you guys tried a boil up lol?It's a maori dish kinda like a hearty soup.Usually pork bones and watercress,potatoes,pumkin,I prefer mine with brisket,Hope NZ is still sweet az!Godbless you two n your family!
Firstly thank you for saying Scallops correctly, the American pronunciation really winds me up. Secondly thank you for showing the scallop with the roe attached, I do not understand why half the animal is often thrown away before consumption. A scallop has both white and orange parts, anything less is less than a scallop
Sugar bread was a childhood treat. It’s one of those foods you have fond memories of but DON’T pass on to your children. Also, the US subsidizes corn so corn syrup is in lots of prepared foods.
Yess 😊 it is wonderful living in paradise 😊I we love old school pie 😊yess u ower pies are best in the world kiwi pies 😊 I remember big Ben piesa😊awesome pies 😊
You forgot 2 classics (well 2 variations anyway) - pizza made with tinned spaghetti, cheese, and bacon, using scone dough as a base and mini pizza using the same ingredients but on burger bun halves. The mini pizzas were a staple of the café pie cabinet back when I was a lad (70s).
Curried mince on toast is the bomb! And just plain mince on toast. I don't like it all fancied up. The thing that really makes it is lots of butter on the toast and the pile of hot savoury mince. Yum!
well, I'm 63 year old, Maori and have to say you two beat me in eating kina... I was the only one in my family that wouldn't eat it, mainly because my dad was ol' skool Maori and loved his sea food way past the use by date so to speak... Rotten in fact... same thing with corn . . I would smell the corn cooking 50 meters from our house when walking home from school and remember my school friends asking me once what the smell was because it aint pleasant and I remember saying that smell means I'll be having weetbix for dinner 😳
Hi I'm a kiwi in Auckland . You have to try much Moore fairy bread ice cream . Tastes just like the fairy bread we make with white bread and hundreds and thousands . It's a new release and the rum and raisin is to die for as well
I had mince on toast for brekky, yesterday with toast and real butter .yum vogels with marmite I'm.Maori so I love hangi kai. Mmm... if you do a hangi, you need volcanic rocks
Californian who spent a year in NZ as an exchange student in the early 1980s. When I was in NZ the number one books 📚 selling in the book stores was cook books 📚 partly because the diet was so British BORING, and partly because NZ was just discovering Mexican food. Mince on Toast - that looks like egg on toast, a common breakfast, with some bacon or sausage in between or if you like really strong flavor get Irish blood sausage, but a lot of people won’t eat that, I have been to a Irish ☘️ bar/restaurant in the states that serve it and I like 👍🏻 it! At least they put it on some real Italian French bread 🥖, which could NOT be found in NZ when I was there! Now I avoid bread because it turns into sugar very quickly in your stomach, very fattening and unhealthy. Gluten free isn’t more healthy unless a person has the allergy to gluten. And gluten free is NOT KETO! KETO is a diet with no simple sugars (simple carbs), completely different from gluten free. Vogel Bread - looks like multigrain bread or maybe sprouted multigrain, it’s a little more healthy. Ezekiel bread is the similar healthy bread you see everywhere in the States. Cooking a pig 🐷 in a pit - I have had carnitas in California cooked traditionally in a pit, It isn’t done that much anymore because a very good cook can do the same thing in a roaster and or smoker. Paua or Abalone - when I was a kid at the local restaurants in the California central coast I got abalone all the time! Now days you don’t see it very often and when you do it’s very expensive! Nice to see you have NOT depleted the supply in NZ like we have in California. Kina - never had that, could be real NZ !😮 Scallops - they are everywhere and they taste great. Mussels - I had mussels for the first time in Napier in NZ, just like the mussels I get at Safeway now. Kiwi burger - beets are very healthy, I think they getting excited about the apple 🍎 cider vinegar in the beets which is more tasty. There are canned beets with apple cider vinegar in the USA 🇺🇸. DON’T MESS WITH MY BURGER, BURGERS ARE BEEF 🥩! Chocolate - the chocolate 🍫 in Pantegonia, on trip though South American tropical forests, was supposed to be sooo good, but it tasted a little FLAT to me. Pavlova - tiramisu is very good, but way too rich for me! Being in NZ made me, NOT a fan of British food. I have had things like steak and cheese pie in the USA 🇺🇸 in old mining towns tourist traps, meat and gravy, just like roast beef not that good no matter who makes it. I would rather have an almond croissant with lots of almond paste, THAT’S GOOD! If you are going to have roast beef with gravy make the fat crispy and serve it with gravy but don’t put any pastry on it that just dilutes the flavor of the beef and pastry, which is just rich that doesn’t taste very good. There you go putting bread on things again that muffles the flavor off everything else and adds sugar. Fat is not fattening if you get all the sugar and grains, which quickly become sugar in your stomach, out of your diet. And putting sugar on everything isn’t really all that tasty anyway. Kiwis 🥝 are putting sugar on everything and don’t know it. I like flavors that blend and complement each other in a dish. Putting pastry on everything can be an impressive visual experience if the pastry is very crispy, but IT DOES NOT TASTE GOOD, it dulls the other favors creating BRITISH FOOD, Yuck 🤢!
There is a skill in cooking paua so that it is not so rubbery. Abalone as the Chinese call it, is a common and may I add, over the top expensive delicacy overseas for Chinese New Year dinner and other special celebrations. The Chinese believe that consuming it will bring good fortune and abundance for the year.
Thanks for sharing Mattie, I never knew that about bringing abundance for the new year (will make sure I eat a bucket load of it this year then 😉😂) have a great week!
After years of only having Watties tomato sauce, we’ve become converts to Delmaines tomato sauce. Much nicer, tastier and not as sweet as Watties. The programme, Eat Well for Less did a blind taste test on tomato sauces and I was happy to see that Delmaines ranked first and Watties was last!
I feel so lucky to have grown up with all this kai in Aotearoa. My favourites: Mince on toast. Creamed Paua with Fry bread. The kumara with the purple skin is what we always had. I'm a Watties Tomato sauce girl. Patrick's Pies in Bethlehem Tauranga Yuss!! I laughed at the Asparagus rolls, my boys said it was fancy when I would make them to take to school events (use cream cheese instead of butter) One of my favourite childhood dishes was bread and milk (or bread sop) White bread broken up, sugar, hot water and milk. Still have it every now and then. Find someone who can show you from the beginning on how a hangi is done. Some are cooked in whole portions and cut down later. The preparation, the food prep, the Karakia, the story telling, the family time, the unearthing and serving, the clean up. It's pretty special. Thanks for the timely reminder. Made me appreciate our unique Aotearoa more. xx
Tēnā koe for this lovely comment...and for sharing with us that the hangi is so much more than a meal. I loved your description, thank you! Have a great week! xx PS: cream cheese instead of butter...on to it! 😉
As a kiwi I can't stand tomato sauce I'm all about Gregg's steak sauce... Ketchup is the same as the NZ equivalent of Tomato sauce... Watties is disgusting just as bad as the American brand
Pie sandwiches...steak/ mince and cheese. Loved that when I was in Napier for a while. Whittaker chocolate ...and fish and chups. Kiwi burger...beetroot and fried egg on a burger...divine! Back in UK a while now. Love and miss NZ
Oh my, so many things to comment on. Hangi, earthy smokey taste, yum. Mince on toast (endless ways to make mince ), grated cheese with and egg on top. Sugar sandwich ... hundreds and thousands on bread - Fairy bread. Avo on Vogals .. hell yeah !. Kumera fries / chips, hell yeah !
Im a proud kiwi and mince on toast is comfort yummy on a winter day. Vogels toasted hot and butter perfect, sunflower seeds vogels yummy, we also do a mean as, choice sausage sizzle, cheese rolls and yes our pies...best kai
It's called an Asparagus roll. Very 1970's but I love them. There is something about the flavour and texture of the tinned Asparagus 😉 Mince pie is the iconic pie flavour in NZ. Gold award winning mince pies from Pukekohe are pretty good.
I remember grandmas asparagus rolls on afternoon tea platters, they'd always be the last to go hahaha. My least favourite food growing up. The smell of warm canned wet asparagus still makes me cringe. Fresh steamed with butter is nice though.
@@ItsaDrama Corrections: 1. We do call them mince pies! Not fruit pies. The only time I would ever hear any Kiwi call them fruit pies is if they're trying to describe them for Americans, or distinguish them from the meat mince pies. 2. It's never tinned asparagus!! It's real/fresh asparagus in the asparagus rolls. We had it all the time at 'bring a plate' events growing up, and I've never once had tinned asparagus, yuck! 3. I wouldn't say Mince on Toast is a breakfast thing, more of a supper/dinner on a sunday when you don't want to have to cook thing! Like baked beans. That could have just been our family though... 4. Kai also means to eat, as well as food (in case you want to add that the next time you mention kai in a vid).
@@geangekate I love fresh asparagus too but when it comes to asparagus rolls tradition demands the tinned varietal! If you need to "gild the lily" add a slice of Chesdale cheese. 😉
Thank you for making me hungry on a Sunday morning. Now I'm out the door to search for some seafood. Another nice video from you two. Love the banter to whine up the Aussies. 🤣🤣🤣
Cadbury chocolate is not what it use to be in the UK or maybe it was never that great. It is a bit oily. Has a lot of sugar but that's about all. When to New Zealand 5 years ago and the Whitakers chocolate is the best. Nice and smooth. Brought back about 2kg of it for me and the kids.
That's interesting Peter, I thought it would be everywhere (W'eve literally just had cheese on Vogels bread for breakie 😂) Thanks so much for being here, have a lovely week 😊
A couple of things.. First the best way to have Vogels no matter what you have on it is to double toast it... I know it sounds strange but it makes a big difference and I have no idea why.. Set your toaster to half way to your liking and let it pop... Leave it for 30 seconds or so and toast again.. Secondly Kapiti Coast does make incredible ice cream, the best of the best is their spiced apple crumble, insanely gorgeous.. However compared to Whitestone Cheese theirs taste like play doh..
You are the second person to mention the spiced apple crumble, it must be good! Thanks for watching Eric and for sharing your thoughts, have a great week 😊
Liz n Briiii, have you considered going down to your closet Marae, if you find the caretaker maybe talk with them about helping out in the kitchen if there a Tangi, that be a good knowledge of New Zealand
hi Brian id would watch lis when the hangi comes out she was getting pretty excited lol 3 months ago I planned my holiday around your recommendation for the Burleigh pies but the holiday was cut short because the delta came along and we had to go straight home but hopefully next time I m in blenheim
Food is a very excitable thing Luke..😂Sorry your holiday was cut short, put it on your list for things to return to, it's well worth it!! 😁Thank you for watching and for taking the tine to comment! We really appreciate it 😊
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No tinned beetroot in UK but I miss the canned grapefruit they had there.
Jelly tip Whittakers choc is great.
You can buy Pavs in Wairose at Christmas time
@@drthomason7043 A Hangi is far too SLOW do a Samoan UMU which is much faster
@@jaybill392 same method different name
25:09 To pronounce 'beetroot' like a kiwi divide it into 'Bee' and 'troot' :)
Man, you guys are makin' me hungry
At my Nan's Tangi, (Maori funeral), we had a hangi for lunch. But instead of tinfoil all the food was wrapped in kete (traditional flax bags). The kete lends an extra herbal note to the food. Best kai ever.
Yum
In the late 70s I worked at Cadburys in Dunedin and the quality of the chocolate and the biscuits was much better then. Many have boycotted Cadbury's since they sold it to Aussie and put hundreds of Dunedin people out of work. They quality is awful now and they have changed classic products like Roses and Continental chocolates and added novelty flavours and pop rocks and all kinds of rubbish which ruined them. I buy the much better Whittakers for my dad who is a chocolate lover.
Hate whitrakers chocolate. Aussie choc pale, too sweet n yuk
@@fairynuff167 What do you prefer to Whittaker's? What Aussie chocolate are you talking about?
@@MagentaDinosaurs I only like Cadbury NZ not Aussie and NZ Nestle. I hate Aussie chocolate, icecream, butter and cheese. Spoilt by groeing up in NZ with the best.
@@fairynuff167 Oh right, yeah I miss NZ Cadbury, although I've always preferred Whittaker's because its often not as overwhelmingly sweet and is creamier in my opinion.
It wasn't an Australian company that brought Cadbury, it was Mondelez an American company that owns Kraft as well as many other products. Cadbury was never a New Zealand company it was founded in the UK in the 1820's
Chiming in 2 years late but “Ketchup” didn’t really hit our shelves until the late 90’s. It was always canned tomato sauce prior and Wattie’s was and still is King! Love your work guys. Brian’s facial expressions are priceless! 😂
Thank you, Billy 🥰 Wait until the next video and you'll hear something very interesting about Bri the old tom sauce...😂
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I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU BOTH! I enjoy the friendship you obviously both share and you invite us to be part of the conversation. Thank you both for allowing some light into our day...have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing you both again
Wow...what a beautiful comment...thank you so very much. We love having you with us and we appreciate you giving us your attention while we waffle onto each other. It's the people around us that make this show so lovely. Thank you x Liz and Bri 🥰
I moved from UK to New Zealand August 2022, love the kiwi way of life. Spent a week in Rotorua with my in-laws and had a family Hangi. Whittakers Chocolate the best in the world.
Love this video, you guys are great. Asparagus rolls are the best.
Laughed at the tension on Bri’s face not knowing what you were going to make him eat Liz. 😂😂
Asparagus rolls are always the first plate to empty, so you have to be in quickly to get any. My favourite ones have cream cheese instead of butter, and plenty of salt and pepper.
Sadly the reason for the change in Cadbury chocolate is the Americans bought the company and changed the recipes. Substituting oil for dairy products, corn syrup and other additives.
I just had an American made "ice cream sandwich" forgotten on a plate in the fridge that literally never melted. It just sat there.
Yes, Cadbury's chocolate in Britain was better when it was a UK company, before it was taken over by US interests.
After public backlash and sales decline they went back to original recipe as the taste changed drastically
The best kumara is the red or purple in my opinion. Grew up with these...yum ❤
Thanks for sharing Hayley. I love roasting kumera with capsicum, garlic and a few fennel seeds and then sprinkling it with feta and chopped hazelnuts...SO lovely! have a great week 🥰
Love roast Kumara. In Australia they call it sweet potato but it tastes different.
I stumbled upon your channel tonight, and I love it. Your appreciation for this country and our culture and your amazing pronunciation of te reo has me a huge fan. Thank you for your appreciation
Thank YOU Stephanie for your kind words. We are so glad to have you with us 🥰
Lovd your food podcast,,your xpressions specially on the Hangi kai was bang on 🤣😅you actually made me hungry..
What about the Boil Up lol That's def the kiwi icon for food!!!
You guys did pretty well at describing our good food. Well done 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you
Thank you for watching and for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment, we really appreciate it 😊
The way you speak of paua makes me crave it😂.. you must try the Maori way of having it. Creamed Paua & fried bread👅👅. Raw fish, Kina,paua, mussels, Crayfish. Tuatua, scallops, cockles,oysters. Missing NZ seafood sm.
Mmmmmm raw fish 🥰
Oh that sounds GREAT!! Now my mouth is watering again. Thanks so much for being here and for taking the time to say hi!
Nui te aroha 😊
Creamed for sure
Hey guys. I'm Maori and have been living in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia for 14 years. I'm a Watties Tomato Sauce addict and have been forever. They sell it here in some places in what they call the 'Kiwi Corner'. I'm 52 and have been eating the canned sauce since before they started packaging ANYTHING in plastic. I've always said the sauce in the bottle doesn't taste the same and apparently I was right. I was told by an ex-Watties worker that Heinz makes the Watties Tomato Sauce in the bottles. I am SO happy I was right 😉
Thank you so much for watching Jon-Ann and for taking the time to say hi! we really appreciate you. Sending much love to WA 🇦🇺
You realise Wattis IS Heinz?
I work at Watties, Hastings and I can assure you we are still making Watties (not Heinz) tomato sauce, but I have a feeling things aren't going well at the moment.. Stock up mate...
Don't ever stop waffling it's the best giggles 🤣
Thank you Viv, we appreciate your support very much! Have a great week 😊L & B
Hello from Levin New Zealand, love watching your pod casts, i hope you guys are still enjoying it here 😃
Thank you Lucas, Yes! We are very much enjoying it here! Thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to say hi, hello to Levin! 😁
The Tomato Sauce drama had me in fits of laughter😂 I'm a born and bred Nzlander and I happened to stumble across this. Totally loved watching you two, you are so funny!! And your review made me so proud ❤❤ You have gained a new subscriber!!
So glad that you enjoyed it Lisa! Thank you so much, your lovely comment means a lot to us 🥰 Liz and Bri x
kiwi born and bred, never liked tomatoe sauce no matter who makes it. mother made it every year. still dont like it.
Vogel bread, butter, smashed avo with fresh ground black pepper and a dash of lemon juice - Awesome!
Ohhh...now your'e talkin'!! 🥑Thanks so much for watching! Have a great week! 😊
My take on breakfast was to adapt a common hangover food from over here:"fry some bacon in a pan, take out, darken the vogel bread in the pan on both sides (using the bacon fat), take out, next is an egg easy over, to serve: bread on bottom, ham and the easy over egg on top, sprinkle with some chives, salt to taste" ... try it ;) It's not "kiwi food" but i had to make 7 in the end i think :D Works better with even darker bread though...
Thinly sliced tomato on top. Even better.
My mouth watering :)
@@ItsaDrama only if yu have an avacado tree, we get rejected export ones you buy at high prices,
I was raised on a 3 acre apple orchard in Hamilton, i grew up in NZ export country.
If you come to the Waikato i can give yu some childhood travel experiences,
and where kiwi kids got taken for a holiday, if thats a blog theme?
PS, you need a Caravan for the real experience,
Christmas in my house in NZ we always have Christmas pudding, mince pies(I've never called it fruit pies) and a pavlova coz no matter how full you are there is always room for pav
Love that, always room for Pav..😂Thanks for watching and for taking the tine to comment! We really appreciate it 😊
Kia ora korua. Great show, excellent. Ka pai.
Tēnā koe Uma, we appreciate you watching 😊
You gotta try
Creamed Paua - which is minced Paua fried in butter and garlic, finished off with cream
Kina Roe (Orange tongue) on fresh Māori Fried bread with a generous amount of butter
Ok. You’ve convinced me. What time shall I come ‘round??? 😉😁
Love you two, you are so happy and full of energy, it's infectious. Must be good for your ratings.
Anywhoo, great vlog, great choices and very well done. Love the effort Liz puts into pronouncing the Maori words. Ka pai👍🏻🤗
Tēnā koe for this lovely comment Elah, it means such a lot to us and we really appreciate you being here with us. Have a lovely weekend, Liz, Bri, x
love you two, lmao absolutely gonna subscribe......great reaction thingy
Thank you Ken! We look forward to getting to know you in our community! 😊
Mince on toast so good! 🥰 hahaha just had some for breakfast this morning
It's the best!! Hope you enjoy the show! 😁
Whittaker's chocolate is the best
Greenlip mussels raw is amazing
Kūmara (purple) is the best - not a fan of gold sweet potato
All the seafood is amazing in NZ
I can confirm the NZ Cheese and Butter is way better than Aus Cheese and Butter
Love me some Vogel miss it so much
Never had mussels raw but now I'm going to try it! Thanks for the tip Jamie, have a lovely week 😊
@@ItsaDrama I'm not sure if it's everyone's taste, but I know a lot of Maori love raw mussels
Australia sells NZ cheese and milk and are way cheaper too 🥺
Try your Pāua with cream
Your cooking method is like creamy mushrooms (brown your onions & dice pāua together. Add cream, take your time, a bit of corn flour to thinning) honestly you will love it this way!!
Now THAT sounds great! I'm going to try it next time I am lucky enough to get some pāua! Thank you for watching 😁
I’m so hungry now and more than a little homesick thinking about those pies (the potato topped ones are the best!) thank you! X
You are so welcome Jason! Hopefully it won't be long before you can get back to NZ and get your hands on one of those famous pies! Have a lovely weekend 😊🇳🇿
IM from NZ and have lived in Australia for 30yrs and still eat mince on toast and my kids who have never been to NZ love mince on toast with worcestershire sauce. im hungry now
I have just discovered your channel and have subscribed. You two are great fun and your enthusiasm is infectious.
Awesome! Thank you so much! We really appreciate you being here and for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment 😊
What an amazing view you have in your backyard. Great advertisement for the Naki.
It really is! Look out for our video on why we love the Naki, released in a few weeks! Thanks so much for watching! Have a great week 😊
Kia Ora. I'm from Tolaga Bay, Uawa. Living in Wellington. Good to hear you guys talking about home on the East Coast. Mauri Ora 💙
I love my mussells in a half shell,with coconut cream and chopped spring onions,and a bit of chilli,and then cook them in the oven for around 10 minutes.
Ohhh! Sounds great! Yum 😋
Try a bit of mayo in the asparagus roll.
When you do your Otago/Southland trip, make sure you try cheese rolls. They are a specialty in the south and are amazing.(on a yet to screen in NZ, Celebrity Masterchef Australia had an NZ actress as a contestant who served these to the judges. They loved them).
Also try Blue Cod. And don't forget about Yams
Love this Mia! Thank you so much for the tips, not only will we try a cheese roll but we will film it and show you 👍 Can't wait! Have a wonderful coming weekend and thank you for taking the time to share this with us! 😊
@@ItsaDrama Cheese rolls anywhere from Oamaru south. They have to be fresh, not sitting in a pie warmer for an hour. The further south you go the better they get. And yes, Blue cod, you have to try some if you like seafood. Great vid again. 🙏
Try Whitestone cheese in Oamaru
Blue cod is to die for! I spent a year in Te Anau as a first-year teacher and the fish in the fish 'n' chips was blue cod. We could only order it on Wednesdays. Every kid and teacher ordered it!
Oooohhh.. I'm over the ditch and every time I come home, it's off to the fish 'n chip shop for Battered Blue Cod n' chips! Just the best.
@@BoldRam
I like the waffling chats.
In South Africa we always loved the All gold tomato SAUCE. 😊 now here in China they don’t have great chocolate. Mostly dove and other stuff, but we went to an import shop and Oh my!! The New Zealand chocolate was amazing. We had the plain milk one. Best chocolate I’ve had in the years living here.
Me being all obsessed about moving to NZ one day we had to try the whittaker’s.
I wish I could post you some..it's so good! Sending lots of love over to China my friend, thank you for watching and for being here 🇨🇳❤️
whittakers is generally a little more bitter than cadbury used to be, but modern cadbury is awful (they changed the recepie somewhere along the way, made the blocks smaller too).
Good list of foods, not keen on the kina myself but certainly love most nz seafood. Nothing like a nice leg of lamb slow roasted with nice sides. Thanks for another good one. :)
Ohh yes...should have mentioned NZ lamb...nice and rare with some tangy mint sauce 😋Have a great week ahead Anna! Sending you lots of love xx
East coast Kina is sweeter than west coast. Break them in half, use a stick or spoon to scrape the roe/orange stuff, from around the shell, keeping them inside the half and stir it all together inside the shell and "bottoms up" like you would eat an oyster from the shell, many people only eat the orange part, but all the flavor is in the rest of it. Try it for the first time when you're hungry!
Ohh yeah...Sounds great! I'll remember that for next time guys! 😋Sending you lots of love and hope that you are staying safe and well! 😘
It’s really nice spread on toast, simple as!
I love your guys sense of humor especially appreciated Brian's jab at the aussies
Thank you Carrissa! we appreciate you being with us 😊
I have a recipe for a pav from my grandmother...is different to most pavs as you do it in shape of a pizza and has only 1 egg...then you pile on the cream and fruit on top, Once cream and fruit juices soak in goes kind of caramely
MUMS PAV
ONE EGG PAVLOVA
Ingredients
1 Egg White 1 Tea-Cup Sugar
1 Teaspoon malt Vinegar 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
2 Tablespoons Boiling Water 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
Method
Put all ingredients, (except Baking powder) in a bowl.
Beat till thick.
Stir in Baking Powder.
Place on Greased paper and bake at 120 Deg. C or 250 Deg F. for 1 hour 15 mins.
leave to cool ad top with cream and fruit
This is fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing with us Rob! Have a great week 😊
Thanks. Going to write down your nana's recipe in the hopes it's like my nana's. Absolutely loved hers, and loathe the weird wet marshmallow things that pass for pavs nowadays.
@@nikiTricoteuse it's super easy and it tastes great
@@robmort67 Ta. Will definitely make one when the strawberries come down in price after Christmas. My nana's pavs had a slightly chewy centre. Not really chewy but it sort of dissolved as you ate it. It was my favourite part.
Nooo - Vogel ha was Swiss! He came to NZ and at the time there was only white bread available so he wanted the traditional European bread. I grew up with a "crusty" Aunt before it was fashionable and Vogel bread was considered very "hippie" in the 1970s. She gave me a treat when I visited her on Saturday mornings - Vogel bread toast with "raw" honey on toast ("raw" honey was considered poison in the 1970s in NZ because of the risk of botulism). I still love Vogel with honey based on those memories :)
That's my daughter's and Brian's favourite too...honey on Vogel toast! Thanks for the lovely little history lesson, we really appreciate you taking the time to share! 😊
Yes, we already know this. Tell us something we don’t know🙄
He was Dutch not Swiss.
@@christinecaspersen1229 Hans Klisser who first made Vogel bread in NZ and set up the company was Dutch but Vogel was Swiss.
no he is not, he is Swiss but his stuff is quite popular in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Awsome video im a new sub. Born an breed from NZ Wellington Waiwhetu. Also from Waikaremoana. Aotearoa. Land of the long white cloud xx
Welcome Kat! So happy to have you with us! 🥰
Grew up on Mince on toast - anything on toast!! Vogels... Yum! and I agree - Americans put marshmallows on the sweet potatoes. So much sugar! We did have sugar sandwiches here too - left over from war or depression days. Asparagus rolls came from when we didn't have much else but tinned food in NZ. And it turned into a traditional food. Decent salt and pepper . Get hold of an edmonds cook book and find a pizza pie - scone dough with timed spaghetti with pineapple on top. Yum!!! Pies.
Thanks so much for watching Heather and for sharing this! info! We really appreciate it. Have a great week 😊
I love love love all these foods, just not Kina(and i'm Maori!). Great choices guys!!
Thanks so much Justin! (Regarding the Kina..You and my daughter both 😂) Have a wonderful week and thank you again for your lovely support 😊
Love Kina and Paua hate mussels and crayfish scallops and definitely fish. Kina and Paua are the only seafood i eat.
The Kapiti Apple Crumble Ice Cream is divine!!!! So good!
Will have to try that one! Thanks for the tip! 😊
Oh wow. How did l not know about this‽
I’m a kiwi immigrant to the UK. Love your channel folks! Of all you described here, Watties tomato sauce is the one I can’t do without. It’s got a savoury peppery taste that makes Heinz Ketchup taste like sugar by comparison. Your pie talk pushed me over the edge…I need some breakfast!
So nice to have you with us Ed! How funny that you should say that about the sauce, it's the topic of mine and Brian's main conversation at the moment 😂Hope you are loving your life in the UK, and while we have the best pies in the world in NZ we Do miss a proper Cornish pasty!! 🥧Have a great week! 😁
asparagus rolls were often seen at group functions, funerals etc. i hated asparagus but would always try one just to see if i still hated it - in my 30's i got kidney stones and came across a cure which included eating boiled asparagus as part of the process. it was torture but worked a treat. (i should say the torture wasn't the stones, just having to taste asparagus)
i also remember hangi's as a child. i don't know if it's still done the same way but back then they had all the food wrapped and put in cages which were placed on the hot coals/rocks, then they laid wet sacks over the cages before covering in dirt. the sacks protected the food from the dirt but also provided moisture to steam the food as it cooked. i always thought hangi tasted of wet sack even though everything was so tender. BUT to anyone out there, don't trust my opinion - i was a child and probably a picky eater lol
This is great Richard! Thank you so much for sharing your kiwi childhood memories. Interesting that the asparagus cured the kidney stones too...one to remember! Have a great week and thank you again for sharing with us, we really appreciate it😊
@@ItsaDrama is should clarity - asparagus isn't the cure but it is a diuretic, meaning it makes you need to pee
Asparagus has a lot of uric acid in it, so it is not recommended for mature or elderly males due to prostrate or gout problems
Love mince on toast for brekky! Vogel bread used to taste even better, theyve changed the recipe, I remember because it was my favorite. There was another one called Reisensteins, it was real dark brown almost black, very moist, I miss that one. I found a recipe for Vogels, so I can make it in San Francisco when I crave it. I can eat loads of those asparagus sandwich's. ( pah (like maori pa)- wah = paua. Maori never used to be big, its because of Maccas and KFC
Would love to hear if it tastes the same Monique! I wonder what they put in it to make it so crumpety? Glad that you are finding your bit of kiwi nosh there in San Fransisco 😊Thanks so much for being here and have a great week ahead!
I can’t believe it. For more than probably 50 years I have lived in forgotten memories and you brought Back mince on toast. I had to get dressed and go to Walmart at 12.30 am and buy a pound of hamburger. Got home made a mince stew and when I woke up at 8.30 am I had mince on toast. Such a delightful wealth of memories. Only deviation instead of tomato sauce I used worchester sauce. Heaven. In 1973 I brought my American girlfriend to New Zealand to get married. My 2 sisters said she couldn’t marry their brother unless she could make a Pavlova. She did and served it at dinner a few days later and was declared an honary Kiwi and told she could marry their brother. Later on I was told horrible thing and never again. But over forty years she often made a Pavlova on special occasions. Ahh such memories. Mince on toast. Back on the menu again.
This is awesome Ron! That really warms our hearts to know that you had mince on toast for breakfast after watching our vid! Yay!! Hope it tasted as good as you remember! Sending you much love 🥰
Worchester Sauce and tomato sauce go well together in mince too, + lots of black pepper.
Paua's, cream and chili....you gotta try it!! Also Kina's tend to be a love it or hate it thing.
Now that sounds delish...Anything with cream and chilli is a winner hey?! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to say hi! We really appreciate it 😊
My. dad used to make something similar that was served in the cafeterias on the air force bases called "S@$t on a Shingle". It was ground round (mince) cooked with a salt, pepper, flour, and milk and served on toast cut into triangles. You could substitute minced sausage for regular mince. I really enjoy it! Regarding those sugar sandwiches give cinnamon toast a try. Mix a little cinnamon with your sugar, butter some slices of bread, butter one side, sprinkle cinnamon/sugar mixture over it and bake it till bread is the consistency of toast. It's great for breakfast.
Whenever I come home to NZ I buy 6 of the extra thin Vogel's to take back with me so it lasts longer and freeze it, such yummy toast and yes NZ has the yummiest pies 🤤🤤🤤
Yes, I agree the extra thin is the BEST! Thanks for watching, sending you lots of warm wishes from NZ 🇳🇿❤️
Hāngī are great they have is sort of right they gig a hole and put wet sacks in the bottom then put hot rocks from the fire then more sacks then wrapped food in leaf or tinfoil something . then more sacks and they layer the food up until the top where they put more hot rocks on top of sacks then more sacks on the rocks then covered in soil and left for about 4 to 6 hours sometimes longer as required for the bigger amounts of food being cooked :)
Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment! We really appreciate you!
Lol , thanks guys. Yep Christmas pudding over Pavlova any day buuut love asparagus rolls.
Our pleasure Sally! Thank you so much for being here, we really appreciate it. Have a great week ahead (and not long now before the pudding comes out 😂)
@@ItsaDrama I hope you ate before taking time to comment. Lol. You have a great weekend too! Love your videos
Asparagus Rolls. A favourite to us Kiwi's. Loved hearing about all the best foods. From a Kiwi living in Mexico
Thanks for watching Maggie! Sending lots of kiwi love to Mexico! 🇲🇽❤️
Have you guys tried a boil up lol?It's a maori dish kinda like a hearty soup.Usually pork bones and watercress,potatoes,pumkin,I prefer mine with brisket,Hope NZ is still sweet az!Godbless you two n your family!
Not yet but we would love to, sounds yum! 😁Sending love to you and yours x
I hope you do get to try it, It's up there with the hangi in my opinion.Stay safe stay blessed 🙏😎
It's colonists food.
They used to eat it in oz aswell..
Yep brisket my favorite
Asparagus roll, not sandwich. I love them.
Firstly thank you for saying Scallops correctly, the American pronunciation really winds me up. Secondly thank you for showing the scallop with the roe attached, I do not understand why half the animal is often thrown away before consumption. A scallop has both white and orange parts, anything less is less than a scallop
"Skallips" - US pronounciation, winds me up too!
I’m a kiwi and wish I could agree but unfortunately the American pronunciation is actually correct and we say it wrong.
Sugar bread was a childhood treat. It’s one of those foods you have fond memories of but DON’T pass on to your children. Also, the US subsidizes corn so corn syrup is in lots of prepared foods.
Thanks for sharing! We really appreciate you being here with us 😊
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As a child I had buttered toast with cinnamon + sugar.
Love the energy in the video 😁
I thought number 20 was going to be hundreds and thousands on bread, very popular with the kids!
Thanks so much, yes! we should have remembered the fairy bread 😂 Maybe in part 2!
Isn't Fairy Bread similar to hubby's sugar on bread?
Well I'm 61 and we have always called them christmass mince pies. To get a gooey pavlova you just add a teaspoon of vinegar.
Fab guys love the banter ❤❤❤ have you tried Okato cheese ? From Ōakura ? My friend I went to uni with used to bring it to Auckland every holidays
Thank you so much 🥰We haven't tried the cheese, but I'll lookout for it now. Thank you!
Fantastic commentary, love it.
Mince was the cheapest meat available when I was a kid in the 60s, I have mince every week still as good. 😆.
Yess 😊 it is wonderful living in paradise 😊I we love old school pie 😊yess u ower pies are best in the world kiwi pies 😊 I remember big Ben piesa😊awesome pies 😊
oh how i do enjoy watching you two,, almost as much as Liz loves hangi,
Thank you Luke! It's wonderful to have you with us! 😀
You forgot 2 classics (well 2 variations anyway) - pizza made with tinned spaghetti, cheese, and bacon, using scone dough as a base and mini pizza using the same ingredients but on burger bun halves. The mini pizzas were a staple of the café pie cabinet back when I was a lad (70s).
Now THAT'S something I have never heard of Tim 😂Sounds like a real nice comfort food 😊
Awwww yummm
You two are awesome as...Manngonui Bluff has your little black mussels, nau mai haere mai!
Tēnā koe Eva! That is so kind. Welcome! 😊
awesome bri whatever you do catchup
😂Love that Richard!! That can be Bri's catchphrase...Catchup Bri 😂
Curried mince on toast is the bomb! And just plain mince on toast. I don't like it all fancied up. The thing that really makes it is lots of butter on the toast and the pile of hot savoury mince. Yum!
It really is the bomb! 😁
well, I'm 63 year old, Maori and have to say you two beat me in eating kina... I was the only one in my family that wouldn't eat it, mainly because my dad was ol' skool Maori and loved his sea food way past the use by date so to speak... Rotten in fact... same thing with corn . . I would smell the corn cooking 50 meters from our house when walking home from school and remember my school friends asking me once what the smell was because it aint pleasant and I remember saying that smell means I'll be having weetbix for dinner 😳
Hahahaha!!! That's brilliant! 🌽 Thanks so much for being here, we really appreciate you! 😊
@@ItsaDrama you two take care over seas, hoki haumaru mai ki te kāinga
Hi I'm a kiwi in Auckland . You have to try much Moore fairy bread ice cream . Tastes just like the fairy bread we make with white bread and hundreds and thousands . It's a new release and the rum and raisin is to die for as well
Thanks so much for the tip Deanna, sounds like Bri would love this! 😁 Have a great week ahead and thank you for watching 😊
I had mince on toast for brekky, yesterday with toast and real butter .yum vogels with marmite
I'm.Maori so I love hangi kai. Mmm... if you do a hangi, you need volcanic rocks
That's interesting, is that because they heat up better Rosina? And yes...it HAS to be real butter! 😊Have a great week!
Californian who spent a year in NZ as an exchange student in the early 1980s.
When I was in NZ the number one books 📚 selling in the book stores was cook books 📚 partly because the diet was so British BORING, and partly because NZ was just discovering Mexican food.
Mince on Toast - that looks like egg on toast, a common breakfast, with some bacon or sausage in between or if you like really strong flavor get Irish blood sausage, but a lot of people won’t eat that, I have been to a Irish ☘️ bar/restaurant in the states that serve it and I like 👍🏻 it! At least they put it on some real Italian French bread 🥖, which could NOT be found in NZ when I was there! Now I avoid bread because it turns into sugar very quickly in your stomach, very fattening and unhealthy.
Gluten free isn’t more healthy unless a person has the allergy to gluten. And gluten free is NOT KETO! KETO is a diet with no simple sugars (simple carbs), completely different from gluten free.
Vogel Bread - looks like multigrain bread or maybe sprouted multigrain, it’s a little more healthy. Ezekiel bread is the similar healthy bread you see everywhere in the States.
Cooking a pig 🐷 in a pit - I have had carnitas in California cooked traditionally in a pit, It isn’t done that much anymore because a very good cook can do the same thing in a roaster and or smoker.
Paua or Abalone - when I was a kid at the local restaurants in the California central coast I got abalone all the time! Now days you don’t see it very often and when you do it’s very expensive! Nice to see you have NOT depleted the supply in NZ like we have in California.
Kina - never had that, could be real NZ !😮
Scallops - they are everywhere and they taste great.
Mussels - I had mussels for the first time in Napier in NZ, just like the mussels I get at Safeway now.
Kiwi burger - beets are very healthy, I think they getting excited about the apple 🍎 cider vinegar in the beets which is more tasty. There are canned beets with apple cider vinegar in the USA 🇺🇸. DON’T MESS WITH MY BURGER, BURGERS ARE BEEF 🥩!
Chocolate - the chocolate 🍫 in Pantegonia, on trip though South American tropical forests, was supposed to be sooo good, but it tasted a little FLAT to me.
Pavlova - tiramisu is very good, but way too rich for me!
Being in NZ made me, NOT a fan of British food. I have had things like steak and cheese pie in the USA 🇺🇸 in old mining towns tourist traps, meat and gravy, just like roast beef not that good no matter who makes it. I would rather have an almond croissant with lots of almond paste, THAT’S GOOD! If you are going to have roast beef with gravy make the fat crispy and serve it with gravy but don’t put any pastry on it that just dilutes the flavor of the beef and pastry, which is just rich that doesn’t taste very good. There you go putting bread on things again that muffles the flavor off everything else and adds sugar.
Fat is not fattening if you get all the sugar and grains, which quickly become sugar in your stomach, out of your diet. And putting sugar on everything isn’t really all that tasty anyway. Kiwis 🥝 are putting sugar on everything and don’t know it. I like flavors that blend and complement each other in a dish. Putting pastry on everything can be an impressive visual experience if the pastry is very crispy, but IT DOES NOT TASTE GOOD, it dulls the other favors creating BRITISH FOOD, Yuck 🤢!
Wow! What a great comment! Thank you so much for taking thew time to share this, we appreciate you! 😃
Fairlie pork belly pie.
Tuimato sauce
It's lambs tail season....
Venison
Mutton birds, love them or hate them, there's no middle ground.
I think we have to make part 2! 😂Thanks for watching and for saying hi! have a lovely weekend 😊
There is a skill in cooking paua so that it is not so rubbery. Abalone as the Chinese call it, is a common and may I add, over the top expensive delicacy overseas for Chinese New Year dinner and other special celebrations. The Chinese believe that consuming it will bring good fortune and abundance for the year.
Thanks for sharing Mattie, I never knew that about bringing abundance for the new year (will make sure I eat a bucket load of it this year then 😉😂) have a great week!
You would’ve been here when cadburys were in Dunedin the factory only shut down in 2018 so quite recently
Another gem guys . .awesome :-)
Glad you enjoyed it John! Thank you so much for being here, we really appreciate it. Have a great week ahead!😊
After years of only having Watties tomato sauce, we’ve become converts to Delmaines tomato sauce. Much nicer, tastier and not as sweet as Watties. The programme, Eat Well for Less did a blind taste test on tomato sauces and I was happy to see that Delmaines ranked first and Watties was last!
Yes! I love their mint sauce too! Thanks for watching and for sharing, as always we are so happy that you are with us 😊
Same, same. Bought some to try about 10 bottles ago. Never switching back.
You guy's are a breath of fresh air.
Thank you so much Hank, what a lovely thing to say. We are happy to have you with us 😊
I feel so lucky to have grown up with all this kai in Aotearoa. My favourites: Mince on toast. Creamed Paua with Fry bread. The kumara with the purple skin is what we always had. I'm a Watties Tomato sauce girl. Patrick's Pies in Bethlehem Tauranga Yuss!! I laughed at the Asparagus rolls, my boys said it was fancy when I would make them to take to school events (use cream cheese instead of butter)
One of my favourite childhood dishes was bread and milk (or bread sop) White bread broken up, sugar, hot water and milk. Still have it every now and then.
Find someone who can show you from the beginning on how a hangi is done. Some are cooked in whole portions and cut down later. The preparation, the food prep, the Karakia, the story telling, the family time, the unearthing and serving, the clean up. It's pretty special.
Thanks for the timely reminder. Made me appreciate our unique Aotearoa more. xx
Tēnā koe for this lovely comment...and for sharing with us that the hangi is so much more than a meal. I loved your description, thank you! Have a great week! xx
PS: cream cheese instead of butter...on to it! 😉
As a kiwi I can't stand tomato sauce I'm all about Gregg's steak sauce... Ketchup is the same as the NZ equivalent of Tomato sauce... Watties is disgusting just as bad as the American brand
Pie sandwiches...steak/ mince and cheese. Loved that when I was in Napier for a while. Whittaker chocolate ...and fish and chups. Kiwi burger...beetroot and fried egg on a burger...divine! Back in UK a while now. Love and miss NZ
Oh my, so many things to comment on.
Hangi, earthy smokey taste, yum.
Mince on toast (endless ways to make mince ), grated cheese with and egg on top.
Sugar sandwich ... hundreds and thousands on bread - Fairy bread.
Avo on Vogals .. hell yeah !.
Kumera fries / chips, hell yeah !
Toasted closed sandwiches with mince on is great!
Ohhh...never tried that...with cheese or just mince? Thanks for the tip Wayne! 😋
Bolognaise mince. Cheese would make it even better!
Tomato paste on a Pizza Brian,Tomato sauce on a hotdog,Kiwis know it as Tomato sauce,Whitlocks Tomato sauce is the best tomato sauce in NZ anyway.
Take no notice of him...he's just being daft...😉
Whitlock sucks Sav mate.
@@inchworm2402 Only to you.
Love that closing! Impressed!
Im a proud kiwi and mince on toast is comfort yummy on a winter day. Vogels toasted hot and butter perfect, sunflower seeds vogels yummy, we also do a mean as, choice sausage sizzle, cheese rolls and yes our pies...best kai
Now my mouth is watering again...😂Thanks for watching!
It's called an Asparagus roll. Very 1970's but I love them. There is something about the flavour and texture of the tinned Asparagus 😉 Mince pie is the iconic pie flavour in NZ. Gold award winning mince pies from Pukekohe are pretty good.
I remember grandmas asparagus rolls on afternoon tea platters, they'd always be the last to go hahaha. My least favourite food growing up. The smell of warm canned wet asparagus still makes me cringe. Fresh steamed with butter is nice though.
Thanks so much for watching and for sharing this! info! We really appreciate it. Have a great week 😊
@@ItsaDrama Corrections:
1. We do call them mince pies! Not fruit pies. The only time I would ever hear any Kiwi call them fruit pies is if they're trying to describe them for Americans, or distinguish them from the meat mince pies.
2. It's never tinned asparagus!! It's real/fresh asparagus in the asparagus rolls. We had it all the time at 'bring a plate' events growing up, and I've never once had tinned asparagus, yuck!
3. I wouldn't say Mince on Toast is a breakfast thing, more of a supper/dinner on a sunday when you don't want to have to cook thing! Like baked beans. That could have just been our family though...
4. Kai also means to eat, as well as food (in case you want to add that the next time you mention kai in a vid).
@@geangekate I love fresh asparagus too but when it comes to asparagus rolls tradition demands the tinned varietal! If you need to "gild the lily" add a slice of Chesdale cheese. 😉
Thank you for making me hungry on a Sunday morning. Now I'm out the door to search for some seafood. Another nice video from you two. Love the banter to whine up the Aussies. 🤣🤣🤣
You are so welcome! Glad that you were with us Afano 😊I hope you had a lovely Sunday and thank you for watching!
Creamed paus is beautiful. Creamed Paua & eggs benedict, you can also put bits of bacon through it.
Yum! 😁
Cadbury chocolate is not what it use to be in the UK or maybe it was never that great. It is a bit oily. Has a lot of sugar but that's about all. When to New Zealand 5 years ago and the Whitakers chocolate is the best. Nice and smooth. Brought back about 2kg of it for me and the kids.
Agreed. Kiwi in the uk here and I really don’t like the chocolate here.
I haven't found Vogel's bread in Australia. During my uni days in Wellington we had lots of Vogel's for cheese on toast.
It used to be there (in Melbourne at least), but then disappeared for some reason...😢
That's interesting Peter, I thought it would be everywhere (W'eve literally just had cheese on Vogels bread for breakie 😂) Thanks so much for being here, have a lovely week 😊
Love your videos. For asparagus rolls... try spreading cream cheese on the bread then add the asparagus.
Thanks for the tip Cindy and thank you for your kind words, we appreciate you being with us! 😊
U have to try Creamed Pauas. It's something you'll find whenever there's a hangi.
You guys have the best Maori pronunciations ever! Better than most born and bred here.
Thank you 😊
A couple of things.. First the best way to have Vogels no matter what you have on it is to double toast it... I know it sounds strange but it makes a big difference and I have no idea why.. Set your toaster to half way to your liking and let it pop... Leave it for 30 seconds or so and toast again.. Secondly Kapiti Coast does make incredible ice cream, the best of the best is their spiced apple crumble, insanely gorgeous.. However compared to Whitestone Cheese theirs taste like play doh..
You are the second person to mention the spiced apple crumble, it must be good! Thanks for watching Eric and for sharing your thoughts, have a great week 😊
Agreed needs to be double toasted to get the best results.
Liz n Briiii, have you considered going down to your closet Marae, if you find the caretaker maybe talk with them about helping out in the kitchen if there a Tangi, that be a good knowledge of New Zealand
Love Vogel bread. Its hard to find in Australia. I always bring it back when I go to NZ.
bri im with you about the tinned asparugus, fresh is definitely best
hi Brian id would watch lis when the hangi comes out she was getting pretty excited lol 3 months ago I planned my holiday around your recommendation for the Burleigh pies but the holiday was cut short because the delta came along and we had to go straight home but hopefully next time I m in blenheim
Food is a very excitable thing Luke..😂Sorry your holiday was cut short, put it on your list for things to return to, it's well worth it!! 😁Thank you for watching and for taking the tine to comment! We really appreciate it 😊
@@ItsaDrama you two are so entertaining I wouldn't miss it