I’ve been away this week­end, so not too much to report about what’s been eat­ing in the city oth­er than it’s Mat­ter­horn’s 50th birth­day month (yep I was a bit slow cot­ton­ing onto that one), the Bureau is open on the Ter­race (pri­or Liq­ui­date folks), and Charley Noble is up and run­ning (check out more details of my first expe­ri­ence at CN here if inter­est­ed).  So am bound to have dou­ble the verbage next week!

Cookie jarBut I do want to men­tion anoth­er delight­ful prod­uct from our clever region­al young­sters entered in the 2013 high schools Lion Foun­da­tion Young Enter­prise Scheme Drag­ons Den com­pe­ti­tion.

This time, the New­lands Col­lege girls who’ve cre­at­ed the Kerene­di Cook­ie Jar (see a pre­vi­ous post about the Tawa Col­lege lads who cre­at­ed Orange and Gin­ger Jam).

The girls too have been sup­port­ed by the City Mar­ket and pre­sent­ed their prod­uct over the last two week­ends.

This is so def­i­nite­ly my kind of quick and easy bak­ing — near­ly all ingre­di­ents in one appeal­ing jar, the instruc­tions on the back just a few sim­ple pic­tures, and a del­ish result.

The most amus­ing part of the con­ver­sa­tion with the girls being their deci­sion to cre­ate an ‘adult’ cook­ie so includ­ing cran­ber­ries and oats (I won­dered lat­er if there was a very clever con­nec­tion to uri­nary and bow­el health or whether that was just where my mind leap to.….).

Any­how, I’m look­ing for­ward to con­vert­ing my jar to a deli­cious pile of cook­ies next week­end and see­ing what some of these clever young­sters move onto next.

Keep an eye on their face­book page to see where they’re going to pop up next if you want to get your hands on some.

Hap­py long week­end­ing (and don’t for­get Hashigoza­ke’s Pacif­ic Beer Expo on Sun­day).