Final day.

1 more deal left of our Winter Plumage Sale! Shop online here or visit us in store.

Sale.

Just 2 days left! See here!

Our winter kiwis.

Keeping warm in the shop!

If you like the look of these guys and can't get into the shop yourself- drop us a line on kiaora@pauanesia.co.nz

Sale.

Just 3 days left. HERE!

Kete napkins.

We have some wonderful new shots of our blue Kete Napkins from our Matariki banquet a few weeks back. There's still more recipes to come if you've been following! The kete design for the napkins was designed by us based on a collection of vintage ketes.

See all our napkins online here.

SKIN

A beautifully short film about New Zealander 'Skin Dog' and how great love can be. Only a few short minutes and worth the watch.

Here on DAZED.

Winter weekend escape

The Bethells Beach cafe reopens today, after too many windy weekends, a great spot for a good lunch and delicious coffee! After a visit to the beach climb over the towering sand dunes and walk the Lake Wainamu walking track!

To keep warm along the way - pop into our store before you set off and grab a possum merino knit from our WINTER PLUMAGE SALE!

Our sale.

All of these categories are marked down in our winter plumage sale. All our own Wairua Possum Merino knitwear, our capes, hand cosies, scarfs, printed soft merino scarves, throws etc etc. See all of the pieces included here.

The sale only excludes custom made for Pauanesia Diane Dudfield blankets.

It's started

Our winter plumage sale! Shop online with this link here.

NZ bird masks.

Look what we are expecting into the shop this week! New and exclusive collection just for us by the ever talented Auckland based Amy Dawson.

Amy works under her own brand 'Cheese Before Bedtime' making incredible wee stitched beauties and she made these four NZ bird delights exclusively for Pauanesia.

Support local.

This was found outside a cafe in Australia but fully applies to NZ too (just shift the numbers a little).

Support local! More posts on other wonderful NZ businesses coming soon.

Recipe 3 + 4

Plum, Lime & Ginger Fizz

Ingredients
- Black doris plum juice (from a 400g can used in the crumble recipe below)
- 6 limes
- Old fashioned ginger beer

To make the syrup.
Strain the plum juice from the can. Add the juice of 6 limes.

To pour the drink.
Fill to one third of the glass with the syrup. Add ice cubes and fill with old fashioned ginger beer to the top.

Enjoy!

Black Doris Plum Crumble

Ingredients
- 400gm can of black doris plums
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1.5 cups threaded coconut
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups of rolled oats
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cardamon
- 100g melted butter

Preheat oven to 180c.
Drain juice from the can (to be used in the Plum, Lime + Ginger Fizz). Cut the plums in half and remove stones. Spread evenly over a oven proof dish. In a mixing bowl put the flour, coconut, brown sugar, rolled oats, ginger and cardamon. Mix well. Next pour over the melted butter and combine. Spread crumble mix over the top of the plums. Press lightly. Bake for 40-45 minutes until golden.


Served on our Kohinga Moana cloth. 

Diane Dudfield

Our wonderful blanket creator Diane Dudfield never ceases to amaze us. Diane hand dyes and weaves all her blankets and we are lucky enough to stock them.

This beauty sold as soon as it hit the shop floor, we wish it had hung around a little longer!
You can see some of the ones we have in store online in our Gallery here.

Coming soon

We are very excited about a collaboration with a new and brilliant Auckland craft artist. All to be reveled soon but for now a little taste of what's to come.

Recipe 2

Roast Tomato Brown Lentil Casserole

Preheat oven to 180C
Lightly oil an oven dish
Add
- 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 16 chopped Tomatoes
- 2 diced onion
- 1 handful of chopped thyme
- 6 roughly chopped garlic cloves 

Roast for 30 minutes
Combine this with 2 400g tins of chopped tomatoes in a large pot
Rinse 2 cups lentils and add 8 cups of boiling water or vegetable stock
Cover and simmer for 25 minutes
Combine tomatoes and lentils, add parsley and season and serve with sliced cherry tomatoes on the top! Enjoy!

Served on our Kohinga Pounamu cloth.

New Paua

One of the creative lasses in our shop has been working on a wonderful new line of crochet and paua necklaces just for us.

Pop in and visit us at the shop to see these beauties in the flesh!

Banquet recipes

Over the next few weeks we'll be sharing some of the recipes from our Matariki banquet, hosted a few weeks ago.

Recipe number one was made by our owner Heather. A cheese ball based on her mothers 1970 favourite appetizer – the cheddar moon.

Combine
2 & 1/2 cups of grated cheddar cheese
1 tub of cream cheese
2 tbsp. finely chopped gherkins
2 tbsp. chopped capers
2 tbsp. chopped artichokes
2 tsp. Dijon mustard 
1 tsp Paprika

Form into a moon ball and roll in toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Serve with crackers.

Photographed on our Roimata cloth.

Coffee Cups

Like a lot of Aucklanders, we love a good coffee and yesterday we stumbled upon this. New Zealand photographer, Henry Hargreaves, has been collecting coffee cups from all over the world now runs a blog and instagram documenting them.

Some of our favourites below. Sounds a wee bit dull but it's worth a peek!

Local: Poppy and Olive

We are quickly becoming big fans of Poppy and Olive,  a wee Auckland based brand that specialises in nut butters! Sophie, the brains behind the business, does a full market circuit each month (which you can see here)  or you can buy online. The best thing is Poppy and Olive nut butters contain only the essentials and if you drop back a jar you get 50c off your next butter!

Sophie also makes a 'chocolate hazelnut butter'.. sounds like the best nutella replacement in town to me!

Support local!

Celebrating Matariki.

Last week the Pauanesia family gathered to celebrate Matariki, when the Matariki star constellation (Pleiades) appeared in the north east night sky.

We prepared a vegetarian banquet and will share some of our recipes with you soon. In the meantime some more shots from our wonderful evening.