Food, Glorious Food

Farmers markets in Christchurch are more than fruits and veggies – they have breads, pastries, juices, ice cream, meat, olives, beer, chocolate, flowers, and more, plus lots of ready to eat food.  We’ve sampled some of course.

Lollies, a kid pleaser

Hope River savoury pies

Mushroom parcels with sour cream basil pesto

Buying Wigram beer from the source

Mumma Bear muesli,our favorite breakfast

Caramelized onion & feta pizza

One of the vendors at the Saturday Riccarton Bush market is BearLion Foods, with beautiful salads and small cakes.  Alesha, the owner and chef, offers an occasional cooking class.  She had one space left this year in one class, and Cindy was able to attend it for some good ideas and sampling.

Alesha, owner & chef of BearLion

Christchurch has a Vegetarian Society which holds a Vegetarian Expo every year.  This year was the third time we were able to attend and volunteer to help.  We watched cooking demos, viewed films and tried some foods.  Our volunteer job was to help with tear down and clean up, but we also filled in for an hour to supervise the bouncy castle. 

Chef Budhsamudra from Lotus Heart restaurant made crispy mushroom, spinach & roast tomato salad