Food
THE PRESS, Christchurch
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 ZEST 3
Cafe chat by Kim Triegaardt
Don’t miss:
■ The Big Grill Festival:
November 10. Tickets on sale
now. Festival features The
Eastern, Hera, Amiria Grennell
and her father, John, chef Jonny
Schwass, Simo, Paul from
Flames , Jamie Bennett, Sam
Marchant, Craft American beer
and lots of charcoal. See
feastofcanterbury.co.nz.
Fresh and local
Waipara Valley Farmers
Market is held every Saturday
morning from 9am to noon in the
township’s main street. Among
the stallholders, Fricker’s Bread
is fresh from the kitchen of Swiss
bakers Urs and Ursula Fricker,
Cheviot Hills has the last of the
season’s oyster mushrooms and
Mt Grey Olive Oil has a new
fennel oil infusion.
WIN WIN WIN
Welcome back
Fresh and ready: Saturday morning at the Waipara Valley Market.
green frame and the subject of a
compulsory Cera acquisition
order. Liquor King Carlton has
provided a rent-free spot for his
new mobile restaurant, which
serves takeaway roast lamb with
scalloped potatoes ($35, serves two
easily). From 4pm until
sold out. Phone 387 0707
or email pedroslamb@
gmail.com
Port Hills Labour MP Ruth
Dyson has shared her oven-baked
gnocchi recipe in support of
charity cookbook DUO, published
to raise funds for the multiple
sclerosis and Parkinson’s
societies. To order a copy of the
book, see ms-pd.org.nz. $28.
Oven-baked gnocchi
Movie time
The Wattie’s Cans
Film Festival is back. If
you feel like going to the
movies tonight, take a
can of food to a cinema
near you and exchange it
for a movie ticket (for
participating cinemas,
see watties.co.nz). Help
the Salvation Army stock
up its food banks for
Christmas.
Long wait
C1 Espresso opened
this week on the corner of
High and Tuam streets.
Owner Sam Crofskey
says it’s been a long haul,
but ‘‘we’ve got there’’.
Running again: Inaki Sanchez and his uncle, Pedro
Carazo, have opened a temporary Pedro’s in Papanui
Photo: KIM TRIEGAARDT
Rd.
Gnocchi good
parmesan)
⁄2 tsp grated nutmeg
3 cups cooked and drained spinach or
silver beet
Extra parmesan cheese (optional)
Heat the milk, butter, salt and pepper
until just coming to the boil.
Add the semolina gradually and stir
until boiling (will thicken suddenly).
Remove from heat and beat in eggs,
cheese, nutmeg and spinach.
Spoon into a greased shallow
casserole dish and sprinkle parmesan
cheese on top if desired.
Bake at 200C for 25–35 minutes.
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There has been a lot of pain
and heartache, but things are
starting to look up for Pedro
Carazo, who lost his son, home
and restaurant in the
Christchurch earthquakes.
Pedro’s opened in Christchurch
nearly 30 years ago. ‘‘I started the
restaurant business in
Christchurch then, and I can get
everything going again,’’ the
irrepressible Spaniard says.
Carazo and his nephew, Inaki
Sanchez, have opened Pedro’s
House of Lamb in Papanui Rd, a
temporary home until they find a
permanent site. Carazo recently
returned from Spain with a
containerload of items for the new
restaurant he had been planning,
only to find the site was in the
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