Our Place Magazine. Issue 27 / Week 1

Issue 27 / Week 1

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April / May 20

Thinking HapPea Thoughts

BOP’s Best Food Deliveries

Seedy Crackers for Platters

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Kia ora, friends.

How are you doing out there?

We’re happy to be connected with you! As we can’t print and distribute Our Place right now, we went into overdrive (in our own bubbles) to get these digital editions up and running, along with a brand spanking website. Instead of a bimonthly print issue, we can send you these weekly digital issues while we’re in isolation. Our goals are simple: to support businesses, to connect the community, to share useful info as well as lighter moments in our current situation and, as always, offer great reads. Jump on the website to subscribe.

We’re a family run business and, like many of you, the lockdown has pretty much taken away everything we do right now.

Although this has left us feeling uncertain about the immediate future, we know that we have an incredible community and luckily that’s what we have based our work around.

More than ever, we would love to hear from you. Are there any people or businesses we should highlight in Our Place? Do you have any lockdown news, ideas, funny stories or survival techniques? Just email sarah@ourplacemagazine.co.nz Kia kaha. Sending love to you all. We’re in this together!

The Our Place Team 7

Contents 5

Welcome

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What’s Up 14

The Little Big Markets Shopping Guide 18

The HapPea Event Native plants take centre stage

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Let’s Explore Dolphin spotting aboard the Bay Explorer 34

Nailed It

By Sam Cummins 38

Seed Crackers Essential for wine & cheese hour!

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Delicious

Things to Love

What’s Up Food Glorious Food Y’all want those supermarket visits to be as rare as humanly possible, and we know getting a home delivery slot is like winning Lotto right now. So here are some companies that deliver to the door and offer excellent quality. Plus, as they are local, you know your money is going directly into our community:

Six Toed Fox Organics Vege boxes packed with lush, just-picked organic produce from their farm. Check out our story about this great business. sixtoedfoxorganics.co.nz

Mount Wholefoods A range of superb organic vegetables and fruit, as well as lots of grocery items. mountwholefoods.co.nz

The Avo Tree Great value boxes of avos (8 minimum), freshly picked from the tree. We reckon this is a cool isolation present! theavotree.co.nz

Mitchell’s Bone Broth Powder Made from NZ beef bones and veges, this is a great boost for gut health and immunity. mitchellsbonebroth.com There are changes to the usual ordering and delivery processes, so check online for details. We’ll list more deliveries next issue! ← On the farm at Six Toed Fox Organics.

Photos: Alice Veysey

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What’s Up Shop it Forward

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Age:

What’s better than an old-fashioned colouring in competition to keep the sanity of young and old during this time? Good idea by Webster’s Tea and all you need is access to a printer at home and some artistic flair (well, maybe just the ability to stay within the lines). Jump on their site, download the file and off you go. To enter, take a picture of the final masterpiece and either tag @websters.tea in a post or Insta story, or email it to hi@websterstea.co.nz.

Mark Webster himself will draw a winner every week during Alert Level 4 and the prize will be a fabulous sample pack of tea and an infuser. Plus they’ll also send the same prize to someone on the frontline. Even better. → websterstea.co.nz

Name:

Show Your True Colours

To enter take a picture and tag @websters.tea online or email it to hi@websterstea.co.nz. Illustration by Logan Smith | @sundaybestnz

Oh to sit in a cafe and get a perfect flat white delivered! But the pain of missing our piccolos is nothing, of course, compared to the stress cafe owners are currently going through (like many businesses).

Here’s your chance to help your local caffeine pusher. SOS Cafe sells gift cards for local cafes that you can redeem later.

Buy the vouchers now, when the owners really need the cash, then use them once they are re-opened and we are released into the world. There are hundreds of cafes constantly being loaded onto the site, but current BOP joints include Folk, Ours, Elizabeth Cafe & Larder and The Nourished Eatery. Spread the word. → Soscafe.nz

Pure & Simple Interested in making a switch to natural products in your home? Kirsty Shorten from Second Nature Botanicals is running a DIY series, teaching you to make our own personal care products from easy recipes using pantry ingredients. She kicked off last week with a body scrub and the upcoming products are: deodorant (5 April), toothpaste (12 April) and perfume oil (19 April). Kirsty will be going live every Sunday on Facebook and Instagram at 10am. This could be the start of de-toxing your home! @secondnaturebotanicalsnz

We Heart the Arts The Escape! festival 2020 is cancelled, but the good folk from the Tauranga Arts Festival are determined to bring the arts into our homes and hearts while we can’t venture out. Starting this week, at midday each Wednesday and Friday, you’ll be able to tune into the wit, smart ideas and thoughtful conversations of Escape! 2018 with audio files posted to their website.

Links will also be posted on social. Fascinating guests included chef Monique Fiso (pictured). There’ll be other great arts content, so give them a follow. → taurangafestival.co.nz

Back to Nature Keeping those little but very inquisitive minds busy right now can be a challenge. Check out The Envirohub Lockdown, as they’ll be posting daily on Facebook, under a weekly theme. This week’s theme is the beautiful native birds of Aotearoa and our kids have already enjoyed the facts, photos and videos about kiwis and tuis (two voiceboxes! who knew?).

There’ll also be backyard projects and activity sheets.

Upcoming themes include plastics, trees, marine mammals, electricity, growing veges and bugs. → envirohub.org.nz or @envirohub 11

What’s Up Happy Hunting “We’re going on a bear hunt, we’re going to catch a big one...” So it goes in Michael Rosen’s celebrated children’s book, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, the book that the inspiration for the literal bear hunt that started in the streets of London and is now happening here. In case you’ve been living under a rock (well, it’s been pretty close, right?), you put a teddy bear in a window that’s visible from the road, so local kids can go on a ‘hunt’ while they are getting fresh air during lockdown. For those bear-less households, we know more than a few who’ve put bottles of beer in the window, but we don’t believe there’s currently a site for that.. → bearhunt.co.nz

Looking Out For Each Other Being isolated at home is a very stressful, dangerous situation for so many people in our community. Family violence is expected to rise during isolation. We’ve noticed some local businesses acknowledging this: Sisters & Co is donating $20 from every full-price online purchase to Women’s Refuge, and Pipe Masters (plumbing, gas & drainage) are halving their labour rate and giving the other half to Women’s Refuge. It’s a very hard time for most businesses right now, so we applaud those thinking about the wider community. Let us know if you hear about any other stories like this and we’ll give them a shout out! → sistersandco.co.nz pipemasters.co.nz Donate directly: womensrefuge.org.nz taurangawomensrefuge.co.nz 12

Hair for You Is your child or partner going to look like Chewbacca once lockdown finishes? Tauranga local Sam Dowdall, aka the Barter Barber, is known for his travels around the country (with beloved pooch, Bo) to raise awareness about men’s health. Now Sam is offering to teach you how to do basic cuts via video chat for koha. Plus, you have the option of talking about mental health strategies at the same time.

Sam points out: “If your family member doesn’t quite get it right, you have four weeks to grow it out!” @thebarterbarber

Fighting Fit We know there’s an overload of workout posts right now, but we’ve now seen what it’s like to be in close proximity to the fridge 24/7 and it ain’t pretty. Gyms, trainers, yogis are all quickly changing how they do things. UBX Training now offers member its We Fight As One home training programme, with workout plans and nutritional guide, plus live Zoom workouts and the app, Train. You can still book House of Yoga classes online via its site or Mindbody app, and sessions are by Zoom. Check what your local is doing! → ubxtraining.com houseofyoga.co.nz

Let’s Party!

Been convinced to download the Houseparty app yet? Hell, here at Our Place we’re even using it for work meetings we’re such funsters! Since lockdown, it’s jumped from number 1143 in Aotearoa on the App Store to number one. And this is happening globally.

If you don’t know, Houseparty is where you can video chat (with up to eight people), and you can pop in and out of group conversations, like you would at a real party. People are even getting together for virtual drinks (Houseparty hangovers are a thing). → houseparty.com 13

If you buy from a local business, it has a positive impact on the whole community! Check out these fantastic products that are regulars at TLBM.

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Earthly Elements

Cook & Nelson has five new gift boxes that are all killer, no filler: the excitingly combustible BBQ box, the Designer selection, Entertainer, alcohol-free Cocktail kit and the Victory box. RRP $79.95–$199.95. cookandnelson.com

Earthly Elements brings you the best quality and selection of lush indoor plants, ranging from just $22 to $130. Private consultation available too — free for the first hour, then $25 per hour after that. earthlyelementsnz earthly_elements_

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Best of Bay of Plenty

Sweet Dough Co

Best of Bay of Plenty gift boxes are filled with locally crafted goodness. Every time you gift one, you share a taste of this sunny area as well as support local makers. From RRP $52. bestofboxes.co.nz bestof.bop

Love American-style treats? Sweet Dough Co has you covered with its famous Slice & Bake Cookie Dough, baked cookies and more! Find them at Dinner in the Domain and The Little Big Markets or order online. sweetdough.co.nz @sweetdough.co

Appleby Farms

Little Beauties

Appleby Farms premium ice cream is made with A2 milk. It’s created in Nelson where the whole process — from cow to cone — is an absolute labour of love.

You’ll taste the difference! RRP $11.99. applebyfarms.co.nz

Kiwis’ favourite fruits are now available year round: Gold Kiwifruit and Boysenberries.

The delicious range of Little Beauties dried fruit slices burst with goodness! RRP $6 packet but get the market special: 4 for $20. littlebeauties.kiwi 15

Aloha Poke

Sage & Grace

Aloha Poke is a local food truck serving colourful, nutritious and tasty Hawaiianstyle poke bowls. Think flavours such as salmon, tuna or vegan, with deliciousness like charred corn, avo and edamame. @alohapokenz

These Sage & Grace cake kits make it easy to create a delicious cake using organic, unrefined and nutritious ingredients. Perfect as a gift or just for yourself. Most dietary requirements are covered within the kits. sageandgrace.co/cakekits

The Snag Co

TLBM Tote Bag

The Snag Co artisan sausages are 100 per cent real meat, real flavour and no nasties.

Find them at the TLBM, order online or visit the Sausage Boutique and Deli opening 1 March at 6/5 York Ave, Mt Maunganui. @thesnagcompany  @thesnagco

These generous totes are made from bull denim, so easily hold essential items (or a small child) without the handles ripping off. All for $10! Purchase at the markets or littlebigevents.co.nz/shop-our-tote-range (delivery after lockdown).

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Machup Burger

Meraki Honey

After many burger tastings over ten years and trips through the States, Machup Burger was born. Try the 100 per cent pure beef patties in the classic smashed burgers with house-seasoned fries. @machupburger

New to the market is Meraki Honey, which is all about 100 per cent New Zealand honey and bee products. There’s lovely raw honey (RRP $10 per jar), honey fudge and beeswax to choose from. merakihoney.com @Merakihoney

Head Loco

Ethnic Jewellery

Head Loco food truck serves delish food at events around the city. After lockdown, they’ll open Head Loco Kitchen “cafe, dining and takeaway” at Matua, just before Fergusson Park. Expect fun, tasty Japanese. @headloco2019

Ethnic Jewellery imports amazing pieces from all over the world and most are striking one-off designs. Pictured necklace or bracelets, RRP $30. @jewelleryethnic @ethnicjewellery 17

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HapPea Event Story by Sarah Nicholson Photography by Rose McMahon

“We have so much beauty all around us, we thought it would be great to showcase that a bit more, and bring awareness to how unique the flora is here.�

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Rocky and Claire are bringing Aotearoa’s lush native flora to the fore in their brandnew events styling company, HapPea Events.

A growing awareness of our wasteful, throwaway culture means that more and more people are coming up with smart solutions to change the way we do things.

So what about a sustainable and beautiful way to deck out events, eschewing imported flowers and unsustainable materials that are used once then dumped in landfill?

Introducing HapPea (pronounced: happy) Events, which specialises in native plants styling and hire.

The business is newly launched by life and business partners, French/British Claire Gillespie and Kiwi Rocky Turfrey, who love the idea of bringing a piece of New Zealand to events. “We have so much beauty all around us, we thought it would be great to showcase that a bit more,” says Rocky. “And we want to bring awareness to how unique the flora is here too,” Claire adds.

The Slow Road to Aotearoa The pair met in London, 2013; Rocky was a hairstylist and Claire was working in tourism and events. Not long after, they chucked in their big-city life and steady jobs to travel and live around the world — their moves, in part, dictated by each of their Visa restrictions. ← Clockwise, from left: Rocky at work styling a venue with a hanging fern basket; Claire with a small tree fern, planted in an Ecofelt bag; HapPea’s verdant living wall can be transported to events.

Opening page: Claire (jumping) and Rocky with their HapPea van.

First stop was Australia, where the couple did Workaway — a scheme where they worked for a few hours each day in exchange for accommodation and food.

They lived in various places, including a housebus in the bush. This shift in lifestyle was a revelation, especially to Claire, who hadn’t travelled to this side of the world.

“It opened my eyes to a different way of living after London — we were put in situations out of our comfort zone.” Rocky agrees, “It gave us a taste of a slower life and more connection with nature.”

Eighteen months in Amsterdam followed, during which time Rocky completed an Advanced Diploma in Special Events Planning and Design, followed by some hands-on experience styling and events coordinating. By this stage, the pair had their sights set on a business together. “We knew we wanted to do something sustainable around events, and also include our love of plants and nature,” says Rocky, who credits her father for instilling her with an early love of natives. “We’d been living out of a suitcase for so long, we were ready to settle down and do something with a bit of purpose, which had been missing.”

The Simple Life Rocky and Claire arrived in Aotearoa in 2017 and set off in a campervan to choose their new home — it didn’t take long to realise the Bay of Plenty was the place for them. They learnt the lay of the land through joining Kiwi House Sitters. They 21

lived in more than 20 properties that year, around the Mount, Tauranga and finally Whakatāne, where the quieter, more relaxed vibe appealed to them.

That’s when the pair found their property in Manawahe (between Matata and Rotoma).

They brought in a small house, planted a vege garden and live completely off the grid with the aid of four solar panels that power everything from wifi to a washing machine. “I was just thinking this morning that we live like anyone else!” says Claire. “We do have to be more mindful of water — you can’t just leave taps running,” she adds. “And when you use your appliances when the sun is shining, you aren’t using your back-up power,” Rocky explains.

Positive Thinking Making a positive impact is a focus for Claire and Rocky and it drives their decisions around HapPea Events.

Their native plants are roughly grouped into three types: nikau palms, tree ferns and ground ferns, including the ponga (silver fern). The ponga pots are carved from the whekī-ponga tree.

In fact, all the plant pots are made of natural, recycled or repurposed materials, and all their plants are replanted, rather than dumped, after they have outgrown their purpose.

HapPea’s pièce de résistance is a 3 x 2-metre living wall. It beautifully showcases the diverse range of ferns, along with ground cover and grasses, all sitting in Ecofelt Grow Pockets, made from recycled plastic bottles. The pair had the vision for the wall, and a welder brought it to life. The frame comes apart into manageable pieces, so it can be ferried to events in the (very pretty) HapPea van.

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Among other things, it’s a glorious backdrop for photos at any kind of event, from weddings to corporate functions.

The couple’s ingenuity and DIY nous is also apparent in their plant home, which they built with their neighbour, a retired builder. “It has a double-layer shade cloth so even on a really hot summer’s day, you step in there and it’s so cool — it feels like you’re in the middle of the bush,” says Rocky. “I’ve mulched the ground so it stays really moist too.”

Everything has to be watered by hand with rainwater, due to being off the grid.

The pair say there’s still loads more to learn about natives and they educate themselves in different ways, from books to working with great suppliers. “We’re lucky because we feel like the people we are surrounded by in Manawahe are interested in this kind of thing,” says Rocky. “And we also belong to the Manawahe Eco Trust — they’re all so knowledgeable,” adds Claire.

Beyond the sustainable materials and practices used at HapPea, the pair are also aiming to make a wider positive impact. Every event they work on, they donate to Trees That Count, which matches donors with tree planters.

This means their clients get a ‘tree gift certificate’ and are eventually advised where their tree is planted. Claire and Rocky also want to promote the link between nature and happiness, so they intend to contribute a percentage of profits to the Mental Health Foundation, in the hope of helping the community.

“We want to contribute to the wellbeing of the land and the people,” says Claire. happeaevents.co.nz @happeaevents

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Let’s E

Explore The Our Place team heads out for the day on the Bay Explorer dolphin and wildlife cruise.

Photography by Christopher Duffy

Previous page: The captain enthusiastically kept us abreast of any sea life, which included dolphins, large rays, an adorable lone penguin ducking and diving (looking for food), and a seal swimming happily about. ↓ We were lucky to have pod of about 100 graceful common dolphins play around the boat for an hour.

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↑ The sunny upstairs deck was the perfect spot to see

the incoming pod, as they sped through the water. ← Did you know, if you give dolphins a wave as they’re swimming past, they will sometimes roll onto their side to check you out?

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By Sam Cummins

Attempting an ambitious home DIY project during lockdown?

Well, best you know your limits. Find out whether you’re a pro, a deluded amateur or something in between...

Invested all your money (and probably some of your parents) in the giant ponzi scheme that is the NZ housing market?

Brought a great house, but it needs a bit of work?

Firstly, congrats on your subjugation to the mort gage (for the unaware, mort is French for death and gage is pledge or contract — ‘ death contract’, nice! At least they got the name right.)

It does make any holiday periods differently though; for example, Easter should be about Jesus or at the very least chocolate, but for proud new homeowners, it’s usually a chance to stage a four-day DIY fest. And then, of course, there’s the extended period afforded by lockdowns in the time of pandemics...

As far as I can tell, DIY is primarily the domain of 30 to 40 year olds.

Most under-30s have so completely given up on home ownership, they’re spending $20 for avocado on toast just to troll people.

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money for more time, so they’re quite happy to pay someone to do the job.

The DIYer falls into three categories:

The Professional This is a tradie of some description. Usually very skilled at one thing and at least above average at everything else. In my experience, The Professional has significant advantages, the primary one is that they are very good at measuring. I know a builder/artisan who’s so fastidious he has ‘measure twice’ tattooed on the inside of one wrist, and ‘cut once’ on the other. Great advice for DIY, terrible advice for Cure fans.

The Professional owns all the tools to do the job, but many lack the drive to do anything in any timely manner. Which I totally understand, if I was swinging a hammer all day for work, it wouldn’t be the first thing I would want to do on a day off…

The Semi-pro The Semi-pro buys their tools from an actual hardware store and always has

a friend who has a trade account: “Nah, never pay full retail”. The Semi-pro generally has some of the same skills as the professional and often works in a trade-aligned role — think civil engineer or quantity surveyor. This belies one of their biggest flaws — the semi-pro thinks they are better than they actually are. “My cousin John’s a builder, and he failed School C. Twice!

How hard can it be?”

They will get the job done, and in their particular goal-orientated way, it’ll be on time and under budget (or that’s what they’ll tell you, Semi-pro pride means any mistake is kept on the full down-low).

And they’ll play it cool too.

Semi-pro’s are the vegans of the DIY world — better looking, smarter, but way less happy.

Office Hands As the name suggests, Office Hands are way out of their depth. While The Professional might renovate a kitchen, and the Semi-pro a bathroom, Office Hands are the everyman, bottom feeder

of the DIY world. They’re scared of tackling a fence, let alone a deck.

Office Hands are not going to fare well during lockdown as they usually have to make at least three trips to the hardware store each DIY day, forgetting something each time, and then still have to pop over to the neighbours to borrow a square drive for the drill. Once they finally get started, Office Hands delight in asking their partner to hold something for them while they look at it and use their “eye-o-meter” to check it’s true.

Office Hands will get the job done though. It’ll take twice as long as they planned, cost only slightly less than getting a professional in, and it’ll look somewhere between average and OK. But the sense of pride and accomplishment Office Hands gets makes it all ok.

So from one Office Hands, to (probably) another: if you’re tackling a DIY project during lockdown, good luck and remember — don’t cut corners and, most important, measure twice, cut once!

Illustration by Christopher Duffy

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Church has never been easier to be a part of.

WE’RE NOW GATHERING ONLINE! Sundays 8.30am 10am 11.30am 4pm 6pm 8pm curatechurch.com

Easter…. Covid….

So what?

Curate Church Promotion

There are good sorts all around New Zealand doing their part to make our country a better place. It’s in times like these that we need all the good sorts we can get; people who go out of their way to give others a hand up when the going gets tough. In the middle of a worldwide pandemic, and with Easter around the corner, there’s no better time to spread some love.

Curate Church is a good sort. It’s a group of everyday Kiwis with a mission to see people loved and see needs met. Curate means ‘to care for the soul’ — the soul of each person and the soul of their city. At the beginning of 2020, The New Zealand Herald ran an article about Kiwi kids who either weren’t allowed or were too embarrassed to start school because of a lack of school supplies. School starting back can be a financially tough time for many Kiwi families, so when Joel Milgate, the Lead Pastor of Curate heard about it, he jumped on the opportunity to do a bit of good in the hood.

Over the following weeks, Curate came together and gave hundreds of back-toschool items to three Bay of Plenty schools in the most need.

It’s not just a one-hit-wonder though; Curate is always on the lookout for ways it can lend a helping hand to those in need. Some other

excellent Curate initiatives are: - The support of Awhina House — a house for women experiencing homelessness.

- Warm Up the Streets partnership with Stoney Creek, which provides 2500 kids with new, warm clothes for winter.

- Gift of Groceries initiative, which provides food gifts to 1200 homes every year.

- Serve our City days, where hundreds of people get together to do practical work in local neighbourhoods.

Curate has some pretty cool new initiatives brewing, with its goal being to invest more into communities every year.

Joel says: “Curate Church is about keeping it real — building authentic communities that help people from all walks of life connect to God through the message of Jesus, a message that invites people to genuine love, genuine acceptance and genuine care.”

So whatever your go-to is: a creamy egg, hefty hollow egg, luxe Lindt mini... As we watch Netflix in isolation and partake in some chocolate goodness this Easter, let’s be inspired to be a good sort ourselves and spread some love to those who need it most.

Curate will be streaming their Easter gatherings online at www.curatechurch.com

Wine and cheese time has never been so anticipated as right now. Clockwatching starts at about 3.30pm, amirite? These classy crackers are full of goodness, perfect with a variety of cheeses and you’ll be the envy of the Houseparty cocktail hour.

Seed Crackers

By Cherie Metcalfe, Pepper & Me

MAKES ABOUT THE SAME AS A COUPLE OF PAC KS O F C R AC K E RS 1 1/3 cup flour (plain, gluten-free or whatever you fancy) 2/3 cup sunflower seeds 1/3 cup sesame seeds 1/3 cup pumpkin seeds 1/3 cup linseed/flaxseeds 2 tbs poppy seeds (optional) 4 tbs chia seeds 1 tsp Pepper & Me Man Grind salt blend (substitute regular salt) 1/2 cup water plus 1 tbs 1/2 cup oil (any oil — I usually use light olive oil or canola)

Preheat oven to 180°C fan bake.

Place all the dry ingredients in a large bowl, mix well. Add water and oil, then mix to form a dough.

Bake a third of the dough at at time. Take the first third, place between two pieces of baking paper, and roll out into a sheet until you get a cracker-like thickness. Place on a baking tray and score (ie don’t cut all the way through), with a knife or pizza cutter, into desired cracker sizes. Grind over a little additional Man Grind or your chosen salt.

Bake for 15-18 minutes until crisp and lightly golden (the crackers will keep hardening as they cool).

Repeat with remaining dough.

Once cool, snap into desired shapes and enjoy.

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Delicious The osteria originated in 13th-century Venice as a place where you could drink wine and enjoy simple food. Osteria in Mount Maunganui is a modern-day take — you’ll definitely find lots of great wine (along with plenty of other drink options), plus a menu based around simple Italian-inspired dishes starring top-notch fresh ingredients.

Osteria is a family-run restaurant with a relaxed and welcoming ambience, including a warming fire in the cooler months. It’s the perfect choice for groups both big and small, young and old. You’ll find other branches in Matamata, Taupo and Ohakune.

91 Maunganui Rd, Mt Maunganui 07 07 574 1574 osteria.co.nz Dinner Mon-Thurs; lunch & dinner Fri-Sun @osteria_group @osteriamountmaunganui

↑Osteria has menu and drinks list packed with favourites. →The cosy dining room Previous page: beef tagliata (recipe on opposite page).

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Beef Tagliata SERVES 2 2 handfuls rocket leaves 1/2 green pear, thinly sliced Gorgonzola, crumbled Pistachio nuts, roughly chopped (optional) Squeeze of lemon juice 1 tbs Italian extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to drizzle Dash of balsamic vinegar Parmesan, to serve Sliced radish and microherbs, to serve (optional)

For the steak, place frypan over high heat and add oil.

Season steaks with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, then place in the pan and cook for 1 minute each side. Add garlic and thyme, cook for 1 minute, then add the wine to deglaze the pan. Once wine is reduced, add the butter and give the pan a shake. Remove steak from the pan and allow to rest for 5 minutes.

In a bowl, toss together the rocket, pear, gorgonzola and pistachios (if using) with the lemon juice, olive oil and balsamic vinegar until well combined.

Thinly slice the rested steak and arrange on plate, then arrange salad on top. Grate parmesan over the salad, then add sliced radish and microherbs (if using). Finish with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of flaky salt.

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