Today was Matariki - the Maori New Year - which comes about when the Pleiades or Seven Sisters comes into view. Ethan and Imogen had their new cardigans knitted by Mim to wear for the occasion.
Anna-Therese invited us to a hangi at Isabel's kindy. A hangi is a traditional Maori form of cooking. Stones are heating to a red hot temperature in a fire. A pit is then dug and the stones are put in with lots of food wrapped up and placed in wire baskets. The hot stones and food are covered in earth where it is left for hours to cook. You can see the fire that heated the stones on the right of the photo and the earth which covers the food on the left.
When the pit is dug out the wire baskets are lifted out. This hangi fed a lot of children and adults so lots of little packages.
In the food parcels there was chicken, pork, pumpkin, kumara, onion and cabbage. Yummy! Ethan of course was too busy playing with the kindy toys to be interested in the food.
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