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Christmas Cake
Good news folks, I found lard to make pastry for my mince pies (and jars of Duerrs mincemeat in New World Supermarket). Discovered the lard hiding in the meat fridges - not in with the butter etc as in the UK. Had a christmas cake tasting last week - mine (made in September, with fortnighly additions of brandy) vs the famous (in New Zealand) Ruth Pretty Christmas Cake. Result was a tie - mine has the traditional almond paste and icing, which to me are the best bits, whereas the Ruth Pretty version is more what us Brits would call a Dundee cake as it has the fruit and nuts on the top, but flavour of cake wise, not much in it! However mine was much cheaper and bigger, mine cost all of $10 to make, vs the $45 dollar purchased one.
Gearing up for Christmas Day - will it be another picnic on the beach, hopefully not in the rain this time or may go alternative and have fish and chips. Its great having Christmas in the summer, you dont want to eat as much.
New immigrants tailed off this month as expected, but back to business as usual early in Feb when the next wave arrives.
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Beer in Wellington
Its really annoying when we reading in other blogs about how bad it is to find good beer in New Zealand. Where are all these people living - here in Wellington we can get hold of a wider selection of British, Belgian, German, Czech beers than we could in the UK and all from the same place - Regional Wines at the Basin Reserve, Wellington. Better still, once a month we go to a Beer Tasting evening there. There is a different "subject" each month ie, British, Belgian, etc., we get to try at least 7 beers over the evening and vote on our favourite at the end. Its a good laugh and great way to try new beers. So don't believe anyone who tells you that European beer styles are scarce - rubbish! Off to the Christmas tasting there tomorrow night (3 December 08) will report on that later. As well as these monthly tastings, there are loads of micro breweries brewing great products you just need to get out there and buy the stuff.
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Moving to New Zealand
We moved here over a year ago and had terrible problems renting a house before we arrived in the country. Estate agents wouldnt deal with us unless we were in Wellington and able to view. We had to change our flights twice until a kind samaritan viewed 2 houses for us - if you are having similar problems drop me a line I would like to help.