Last night I got a half leg of lamb out of the freezer so we peeled some potatoe, kumara (sweet potatoe) and Buttercup Squash and put it all in the oven at about 160 degrees.
The stream as one enters the bush doesn't have a lot of water.
I happened to look across the stream above and realised the view is up the hill to the spot I took the following photo on a previous walk. The colours are not as good looking from the shade but if one looks closely one can see the house in both photos. A wonderful property going right down to the river.
When we get to the waterfall this is the first set of steps taking us to the top of the falls.
As we got home there were two Monarch Butterflies on this daisy. We have the Monarchs everywhere.
The walk took us about 80 minutes and, when I checked, the lamb was cooked so I removed it to rest and turned the oven up to brown the vegetables. Went out to the garden and picked some silver beet (chard) and in no time we had a delicious meal. Nothing flash but very tasty.
The meal looks just plain delicious.
ReplyDeleteIt was and so easy. Basically ready when we got home.
DeleteThe best meal of all, and what wonderful views on the walk.Monarchs, I thought they would be in hibernation now . In the Bay of Plenty, some hundreds or more hang under a huge stand of pine or macrocarpa trees.
ReplyDeleteThey overwinter in the trees in the Park behind us but are still "hatching".
DeleteWhere is the walk? The food looks good though and we have lots of Monarchs here too.
ReplyDeleteThe Whangarei Falls are in Tikipunga in Boundary Road. One can actually walk all the way into town (the Town Basin) with only a short amount on the road. Because we do the walk from home we walk down Kiripaka Road, along Paranui Valley Road to A.H. Reed Park which is actually on Whareora Road. The brochure is available at Information centres see link below.
Deletehttp://www.wdc.govt.nz/FacilitiesandRecreation/WalksTrails/Documents/Whangarei-City-Walks-Brochure.pdf
beautiful views and nice food...yummy
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteDinner looks good! It's a pity that we don't have Monarchs in the UK - apart from the Queen of course!
ReplyDeleteYou have so many other wonderful butterflies. We don't seem to get much in the garden apart from the Monarchs and Cabbage White.
DeleteGreat photos, and a great meal!
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely walk.
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