Our American friend invited out out to her house for a Christmas party. She lives with a bunch of Uni students-- most from Northern Europe. I'm not sure that any kiwis were at the party. It's now becoming a huge goal to hang out with kiwis; I'm finding that we're becoming friends with a lot of expats lately (not unusual being that so many immigrants work in the capitol).
We were all supposed to bring a dish to the party from our home country. I was supposed to make pumpkin pie but ended up bringing pumpkin bread, which another American girl at the party has actually had before. She said she found a recipe for pumpkin bread online after she moved to NZ and was trying to figure out what to do with the huge amount of pumpkin on hand. Just goes to show you that my NZ experience (specifically, the pumpkin experience) isn't all that unique :-)
We had a great time and even had our first glug (mulled wine). I learned about this wonderful thing called "shortcrust," which is a yummy, bread-like crust that you can use on pies and other pastries and can be bought ready made in the freezer section (the "short" stands for "shortbread"). Now I know that that was the crust that my student's family used for my feijoa slice earlier this month.
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