Paua for Dinner

We had a surprise visit last night from my Uncle and Aunt, long time no see. Which reminds me - Lou always talks about being on the seafood diet - what he really means is that any food he sees, he eats... He and Robyn have travelled a lot around the world and within New Zealand and he had an interesting food story last night from the Chatham Islands - reminded by the eating of these gorgeous paua fritters generously supplied by the incorrigible Steve (hails from Croatia) and his lovely better half Raewyn.

Here's Lou enjoying the food 

and my better half (actually three quarters..) Stew

Minced paua, a little flour and minced onion, and 3 eggs. Fried very quickly and eaten even quicker.

Don't put other stuff in there, or they become something else.

So the Chatham Island story - apparently there are so many wild pigs over there that when Lou visited people for a meal they first went to shoot the pig for dinner... in little under an hour they had their weaner. And as the story goes the locals are inclined to castrate the boars, give them ear tags and release them as and when they have the time just to keep the population under control.