Friday, March 18, 2011

2/20/2011 Kaimata Retreat, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand

i'm going to combine our last 3 meals at kaimata in this post.

when booking we chose the '3 night nature package' which included a picnic lunch on 1 of the days. sadly it was overcast or windy enough that we changed that up a bit. instead of a picnic chef dani prepared a 'bacon and egg pie'. we had the morning on our own and when we returned it was in the fridge waiting for us to heat it up.


think quiche. there was also mushrooms and tomatoes on it. i hadn't thought about that but i just moved the mushrooms off.

it was ok as far as quiche go. we weren't able to finish it off on our own so i hope 1 of the other couples took us up on our offer to eat the last portion.







for dinner that night we had:


crackers, olives, sun dried tomato, cheese and pestos

fresh caught moki (thank you again kyle) skinned, sliced and marinated in a soy garlic sauce and served.

i tried it - it was a little on the mushy side for me. texture thing again. but the flavor was pretty nice.

instead of salad we had soup - salmon, monkfish, tomato, pepper celery, carrots, potato in a cream sauce

this was pretty good.
 the wine we had for dinner that night

wild roast boar with both sweet potato and roasted potato and carrots. YUM!

we also had tomato in balsamic










for dessert we had roasted pineapple with chocolate sauce and blueberries in a custard.













the next morning we just grabbed a quick breakfast, not waiting for the hot portion. there was a huge rainstorm moving across the otago region in the early afternoon and we wanted to miss as much of it as we possibly could by getting back to queenstown.

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