My Food Explanation

Hangi

My family and I celebrate Maori language week, because my family is Maori. Every year, some of my family from all of the country come to my house a night before and then we go into the sitting room and sleep there until tomorrow. When we wake up we have our breakfast.

For our breakfast we have sometimes pancakes or waffles. My cousins and I have to say the maori prayer called a karakia before we eat on the day that Maori language week starts. After breakfast we go outside for a walk, and then have lunch at Nan’s house.

For our lunch out at my Nan’s house we have a hangi. My uncles have to wake up super early to get to my Nan’s and get everything sorted out, like digging the big hole and getting the stones ready, and the food from the shed, and the freezer were my poppa stores them until that day. With the hangi we have:

- kumura

- potatoes

- pumpkin

- rosemary

- carrots

For dinner we have pork roast and chicken, mixed with some watercress, and some silverbeet, pumpkin, potatoes, kumara, and some carrots. We again have to say a karakia before we eat our dinner.

After dinner we have some pudding but while my Nan cooks the pudding.  My family and I go down to the beach,  and have a quick swim or we just play at the playground while she cooks it. My Nan always makes her favourite apple crumble with cream. My family like to have snacks, after we have finished our day off.

I like Maori language week because I get to see my family. My favourite part about it is the desert because my Nan makes the best apple crumble in the world and the next one to get the recipe is me!

Shaylah