Hello from Kiwiland (New Zealand)

[MissTaurus]

Hi there everyone 

 

I’m from the central North Island area of New Zealand😊

 

Have been a big foodie since I watched how to make wine on a television show as a child and then tried replicating it. I think I was about 8 or so years old at the time and we had an abundance of grapes in our garden. I’m 51 now but I will never forget that day! 
 

I look forward to corresponding with you all. 
 

 

 

 

[Smithy]

Hello and welcome, @MissTaurus! Your wine adventure sounds like quite an undertaking. Do tell more! Did you fill a big vat with grapes and stomp them? Grab a big bread bowl and try to make a press? "Enquiring minds want to know," as one of our publications used to say. 😀

 

These days, what do you like to cook and eat? Is it still high summer for you, or moving off into autumn splendor?

[C. sapidus]

Welcome @MissTaurus! Always nice to see summer bounty in our winter, and vice versa. 

[ElsieD]

Welcome to this wonderful forum, @MissTaurus.

[rotuts]

@MissTaurus

 

Welcome !

 

Im hoping you can show us some of your local dishes and markets 

 

at home or at your favorites eateries and markets.

[TdeV]

@MissTaurus, at about the same age, I did something similar. In my case I heated sugar in a sauce pan and thought I was making caramel. Took it out to the backyard to consume and was shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- about how awful it tasted.

 

You're sure to make many friends here.

 

Welcome.

[Alex]

19 hours ago, MissTaurus said:

Have been a big foodie since I watched how to make wine on a television show as a child and then tried replicating it. I think I was about 8 or so years old at the time

 

When I was about that age, and for several years afterward, I was faithful fan of "Watch Mr. Wizard" (a.k.a. Don Herbert), who'd do all sorts of experiments and demonstrations. One day I mixed together all the chemicals in my Gilbert Chemistry Set, hoping for something spectacular, or at least foaming -- and if I got lucky, explosive. Alas, none of those happened. I'd like to say that was the start of my cooking inventiveness, but it probably wasn't. More likely it was when I was ten and went to a summer camp at a country club. They had a syrup-based soda machine on which you'd turn a dial to select the one you wanted. Of course, I'd turn the dial back and forth and back and forth to make sure I got all four (or was it five?) flavors mixed together.