Kia ora
Winter is approaching fast, after a lovely Autumn, with a touch of an Indian summer feel to it over some recent weekends, which is just as well because we did not have much of a summer (except, I hear, for those lucky people down in Central Otago area....).
So time to start thinking about those slow cooked heart warming meals, using those cheaper but tastier cuts of meat, that are fortunately now much easier to find for your local butcher or specialist meat retailers. Try blade steak or beef cheeks, lamb chops, or a pot roasted free range chicken. Or a tasty pumpkin or vegetable soup. Add pulses or lentils for great texture, flavour and fibre - real healthy eating. Use some of the great sauces from Noel at Aromatics, Pam at Due North, or for a bit of spice try Margaret's Gringo Killer sauces. I love using olive salt from Geoff Crawford at Telegraph Hill Olives. Give it a go!
For something sweet, use the award winning Heilala Vanilla to make your favourite winter pudding... and top off with a fruit sauce.
We make it easier for you to
discover, buy and enjoy these and many other delicious artisan foods. At the same time we help the small artisan
food producers across the country grow their business.
W
e have been asked why we don't have cheese on Kai. Well good news - we are going to start the Kai Cheese Club, so you can easily find and enjoy many of those unique and rare cheeses made by our very talented cheesemakers around New Zealand
Click on the left to share your details and we will send you more information as details are finalised.
I recently enjoyed tasting the finalists in the Taste Farmers’ Market of the Year 2012 Awards and there are some great quality artisan foods being crafted across the country. I particularly enjoyed some of the chactuterie meats, distinctive classic preserves that really sung with the flavour of the fruit, great spicy sauces, and great fresh patisserie. We will be adding a few of these on Kai soon....
On Kai, you can learn more about the artisans themselves - the people with the passion
behind the produce. And learn more about the places our great food comes from –
the many and varied regions of NZ. Our country has some incredible natural advantages in being able to
grow, breed, and harvest a huge array of foods from the land, rivers and sea. We support organic but many traditional foods in New Zealand are quite OK (just check that they are sustainably grown and produced).
We check our artisan suppliers to ensure that their food is
grown, harvested and prepared as sustainably and ethically as possible. And we identify artisans and products that are Certified organic.
Artisan food producers are the small guys in a big world, but we are committed to help them…. and make it easy for you to
support them. If there is an artisan food producer you would like us to get on
Kai, let us know
Please tell your friends about us, and thanks for visiting and shopping at Kai.
Ka pai
