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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Our First Hangi
We experienced our first real taste of Maori food culture when the camp staff hosted a traditional "hangi" meal for us this week. The food was cooked in the ground (you can see a bit of the process below) and was quite an undertaking. A hole had to be dug, coals had to be lit and a fire had to be started at 4am. The feast consisted of pork, beef, chicken, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, squash, cabbage, stuffing and bread pudding. I must confess, the bread pudding (which was the only thing not cooked under a mound of dirt) was the only thing I really enjoyed. If dirt has an aftertaste, it was deeply infused into all of the hangi food. I found myself feeling thankful for outdoor cooking - the BBQ kind of way!!
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Ahh...the hangi. Markus and I started 'really liking' each other at a hangi that a church put on for the school. The food was not so great. They used old railroad ties to heat the meat in the ground. Needless to say, everything tasted like railroad smoke. Ugh. The singing was amazing as was the hospitality was splendid. Gotta love a hangi.
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