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).