New Zealand Recipes






I found these FREE recipe cards at Countdown Supermarket. I love to collect recipes and recipe ideas when I'm visiting another country. Cooking and baking interesting recipes you discover abroad is a great way to share your travel experience with friends and family when you get back home. They also make a great (and cheap!) gift for foodie friends. My brother who is a chef loves the strange and different recipes that I send home.

Another great way to get your hands on some Kiwi recipes is simply to ask the locals! Especially if you get a chance to speak to chatwith a Kiwi granny who will likely have some tried and true classics to share! There are also lots of great books and magazines available full of both classic and modern New Zealand Recipes.

Whitebait - Try it!

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A New Zealand delicacy, whitebait are a small (about 5 cm in length), thin, transparent fish. They have a moderate fishy taste and are eaten whole usually with egg. You can sometimes find stalls at markets selling whitebait fritters, a basic omellette made with the fish, and whitebait pattie sandwiches are quite commonly sold in fish and chips shops all over the country.

Ohau Seal Colony - Kaikoura

The seal colony is located 25 kms north of Kaikoura, right ON Hwy1 with the main carpark at Half Moon Bay. You can't miss it. Ohua is the most accesible Seal Colony in all of New Zealand. The seals are litterally right next to the road! Another 3kms north of the colony you will find Paparoa Point and the entrance to the Ohau Waterfall Track. This is another great Seal Colony location that is often missed by travellers!

Don't miss The Chasm! - Te Anau/Milford Sound

        

On our way back from Milford Sound we made the mistake of not stopping at The Chasm. The Chasm is located between Te Anau and Milford Sound, just past the Homer Tunnel and is a short 10 minute walk from the road. This website has great map of the drive from Te Anau to Milford Sound that shows all the sights between the two so YOU don't miss anything!

Emily Valentine Exhibition - Wanganui

I love, love, LOVE Emily Valentine. Using the feathers of the Mynah bird (and some others) Australian Emily Valentine Bullock creates Fashion, Jewellery and sculptures that question 'how we sub-consciously classify animals – pet or pest, valued or worthless, beautiful or plain and why'. Her work is beautiful and unique and worth seeing! The Emily Valentine - Feather Fancy Exhibition is on now at The Sarjeant Gallery in Wanganui until March 20th, 2011.

Lunch Buffet - Wanganui

$11 Lunch Buffet at Tasty Indian
Tasty Indian has a lunch buffet every day of the week until 2:30pm. They offer about 6 different dishes with rice and papadums included. They aren't too many options for vegetarians but the food and the service are nice and the price is great!

(almost) Free Rental Cars

With a little bit of luck and good timing you can rent a car or even a campervan for between $1 and $5 a day! standbyrelocs.com lists all the vehicles that rental companies need returned to their original city and if one of the vehicles they have listed matches up with your travel plans you get a seriously cheap ride. You pay for petrol and a very low daily rate but that's pretty much it.

Crown Lynn Pottery Exhibition - Wellington

Check out the Crown Lynn - Crockery of Distinction Exhibition at the City Gallery in Wellington. This very important icon in New Zealand Design has been around since 1940! I absolutely loved the exhibition and have officially started my search for a CL swan to call my own!

Eat Cheap - Rotorua

There are some great deals in Rotorua City when it comes to eating. Here are just a couple:

$10 for a Shepherds Pie and peas or Bangers and Mash and peas, AND a beer, a glass of wine or a soft drink at Hennessy's Irish Bar.

Hello and welcome to Crafty Traveller New Zealand!

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
–Robert Louis Stevenson
 
There are plenty of reasons to love travelling and just as many ways to go about doing it. From as cheap as possible 'backpacker' style travelling to 'no expense is spared when it comes to having a good time' travelling. Some people like to the idea of pre-planning and not worrying about anything at all along the way and others like a real challenge and plan nothing. We all travel for different reasons and we are all hoping for our own idea of the perfect travel experience. This blog will compile a bunch of great tips, tricks and creative ideas for any kind of traveller and will hopefully add to your travelling experience in New Zealand. Thanks for reading and Happy Travelling!