Taste of Mexico: Chicken with Mole on Red Rice with Tortillas

Technically this was not a Taste of Spain, but from Mexico. "Mole" is for me one of the most interesting sauces in the World, with beautiful ingredients from the New World: peppers of different types (pasilla, anchos and mulatos), and cocoa, together with many spices (a good mole has at least 23 different ingredients). It is slightly hot, slightly sweet, very complex. The sauce was made in the Puebla style, although there is another wonderful way from Oaxaca.

In this case, mole is the star, but I made a Laquered Chicken and Red Rice, another example of rice dishes from Mexico (also green --coriander--, and yellow --saffron-- rices).

A very lucky few Kerikerians were brave to try the dish!

Exactly what we did looked like this!

Sunday Closed... religiously!

Beautiful Sunday after the "storm" (i.e. the Rugby game between Northland & Auckland). Visited the wonderful hidden gem of Kaan Zamaan Art Gallery, looking for a exposition of a friend Sandra Suleski. Sandra's work has always impressed us; but the surprise was to discover Julia Reinholt --the owner of the Gallery--, own work, which is also amazing. Currently showing the strong theme of the Middle East, where she lived several years (Beirut - Lebanon, East Jerusalem & Gaza - Palestine). Just to talk to her worth the visit. She also imports and sales goods from the Middle East.

Tapas Sampler II

Today Friday June 05 was another fun "Taste of Spain" day: Made the second Tapas Sampler:

• Castilian Garlic Soup with a poached egg
• Pincho of Grilled Haloumi Cheese with honeyed grilled Pineapple & green Banana
• Ceviche: Fresh white fish marinated in lime & citrus juices, and aromatics
  This is a dish originated in Perú, and one of the great preparations of Hispanic America.
  

Our first Tapas Sampler, a couple of weeks ago, was:

• Marinated White Cheese in Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Bay leaf, garlic and Peppercorns
• Papas Arrugadas with Green Mojo - specialty of the region of my father; the Canary Islands (wrinkled potatoes with Coriander Mojo or sauce) of Spain
  
• Maple glazed Bacon wrapped Prawns Pincho

Just having fun and bringing culinary pleasure to our guests in Kerikeri, NZ!

Finally New Signage!

We have been finally able to invest on the new signage for the Café. We hope that it gives a more modern, clean, minimalistic look. We struggle a bit on the name (Posh Nosh), but too many people refer to it, being already a "branding" name. At least the aesthetics is much better. Nice fresh breeze of autumn is starting every morning in lovely Kerikeri,

End of Summer 2009

We also enjoy most of the gastronomic offerings in Kerikeri. Nice Cafés around --including ours!--, and some restaurants favourites of ours (Café Jerusalem, The Italians, Food, Café Cinema).

At Posh Nosh we will be changing our signage and branding, to finally!! make it a bit modern. We dislike the name but it is already a reference everywhere, so will work on the aesthetics.

We continue to produce great coffees, with some nice cakes (Carrot, Gluten free Citrus Gateau) and some small baked sweets.

We are happy to host a private breakfast for Barfoot & Thompson Kerikeri on Tuesday 24 Feb. To request a private function print the Order Form on the left of this web page (LINKS section), fill it, and sent it to us.