It's probably no surprise that the most popular dishes served from Waikato Hospital's enormous kitchen are its roasts.
Roast chicken, beef and pork are teamed with roasted kumara, pumpkins and potatoes, peas and gravy.
"We get quite a few people asking for seconds," a kitchen hand tells me.
It's too early in the day for a roast but I try a couple of dishes from the Waikato DHB's Meals on Wheels service.
MasterChef it is not but today's selection of pork chow mein served with rice, beans, pumpkin and a choice of mashed or scalloped potatoes is simple, fragrant and palatable. A reasonable beef curry with pineapple and sultanas is another choice.
