It's not all about hot cross buns and chocolate this Easter. Photo / Getty Images
It's not all about hot cross buns and chocolate this Easter. Photo / Getty Images
A long weekend means extra time to indulge those taste buds. Whether you're looking for an excuse to dine out or you're keen to test some new recipes at home, we've got you sorted this Easter.
Starting the day off right
If you've overdosed on hot cross buns already thenthis is for you. For those away on long-weekend adventures to those enjoying some time at home, it's important to kick the day off on the right note. With Autumn temperatures slowly tempting us towards warm comfort foods, oats are the perfect solution.
Italian Prawn and Fennel Antipasto. Photo / Annabel Langbein Media
Grill, toss and serve
At this time of year you don't want to be spending too much time in the kitchen. Meals where you make a tasty dressing, cook a piece of protein and toss it all together with loads of fresh vegetables make holiday dining easy.
Ockhee's website promotes a very cool vibe in which "Ockhee" is a 70's diva who puts the soul from Seoul into Ponsonby.
Not only does it deliver on that, it also delivers on the life changing glass noodle stir-fry known as japache. If that's not your vibe then the fried chicken is sure to hit the mark.
Plastic gloves are optional but the fried chicken should not be. From the menu at Ockhee, a Korean restaurant on Ponsonby Rd, Auckland. Photo / Dean Purcell
A pasta epiphany at a former convent
What could be a better time than Easter weekend to check out Ada, a relatively new addition to Grey Lynn's restaurant scene, housed in a former convent.
Ada sits inside The Convent Hotel, a gleaming-white Spanish Mission-style building, risen from grim headlines. Once occupied by nuns, more recently it was a privately owned boarding house. Twenty tenants lived in what was dubbed "a slum in the heart of the city". In 2018, it sold for a reported $4.1 million and, late last year, reopened as a boutique hotel.
