With the Trip Countdown sitting at just over 100 sleeps, excitement and anticipation are building.
So many adventures looming; so many things to sort before takeoff.
Trust Confucius to restore focus when it all gets too much.
The accompanying refreshments were a nod to an irritating craze sweeping the Homestead at the moment for which family diva Jacq Dee must take some responsibility: homemade savouries and chips.
Huh? Why blame the singer?
Recently we sat in the audience, glowing with pride as she started at the very beginning, climbed every mountain and shaved a good eighteen months off her age. Central to the Sound of Music is a simple tribute to that small, white alpine flower; Edelweiss. Unfortunately, “Edelweiss” and “Pie and Chips” are effortlessly (and annoyingly) interchangeable when the chief chef innocently asks for menu suggestions.
Even Xanthe, who likes a good laugh, is over it.
No photographic evidence remains of today’s morning tea because, when it comes to a treat as wonderful as pie and chips, it’s definitely a case of going at it unreservedly – with all your heart!
Union Homestead 
Would like to have seen the pie and chips!
Unfortunately gluttony overcame us 😊
pie isn’t a thing here…savoury pie that is (fruit pies are definitely a thing), and I miss it, because meat pie was a staple of my childhood – steak and kid, steak and mush, chicken pot pie, cornish pasty, and tourtiere (traditional Quebecois meat pie). One of the many reasons I fell in love with NZ was all the varieties of savoury pies I met down there. Glad you enjoyed it, but picture next time…
Only 100 sleeps – wow!
Hard to beat pie and chips.
Pie and chips – yum!! Something I haven’t had for ages and am trying to resist for a while longer.
Yes, some foods don’t sit around long enough to have their pictures taken. There is only one way to eat chips – freshly cooked and hot!