New
Zealand Supreme Pie Awards 2008
One
of the food experiences you have to try when you travel to New Zealand
is a pie. New
Zealanders are great lovers of pies – 4 million people eat 68 million
of them a year and there
isn’t anywhere in the world that has elevated the pie maker’s art to
the heights that New Zealand bakers reach.
I
mean, where else in the world would they hold a national pie makers’
championship?
This
year, the 12th year of the awards, saw 3000 pies entered in
11 categories.
The
supreme champion was a chicken and vegetable pie made by Neville Jackson
from Jacksons Bakery and Café in Havelock North, Hawkes Bay. His
winning pie contained chicken, leek, celery, carrot and broccoli bound
with a creamy sauce, flavoured with onion and garlic
It
was the second year in a row that Jackson had taken out the supreme
award.
His
seafood pie also won gold, and no wonder - it contained smoked
hoki, prawns, scallops in a lime mornay sauce.
Other entrants in this class included Bill
Lenh Liem from Greenland Bakery in Botany, Auckland, with
a recipe of salmon,
prawn, clam, red and green peppers, corn in a creamy white wine sauce.
And
if that doesn’t start your mouth watering then try the vegetarian pie
containing potatoes, carrots, onions, spinach, red and green peppers,
broccoli, mushrooms, cauliflower, courgettes in a white sauce. That was
another Greenland Bakery winner
Or
how about a fruit pie with morello cherry and home cooked apple with
mascarpone and cream cheese? Or the gourmet meat pies with ingredients
like smokey pork and watercress,
or butter chicken, or beef carbonara?
The
full list of award winners:
Mince & Gravy
Gold: Michael Kleog from Ten O'Clock Cookie Bakery Cafe in
Masterton
Silver: Saroun Lach from Elite Bakery & Cafe in Wellington
Bronze: Treang Mak from Pie Mania in Auckland Central
Highly commended: Bill Lenh Liem Greenland Bakery in Botany,
Auckland
Steak (diced), Vegetables &
Gravy
Gold: Shane Kearns from Oslers Bakery Wairoa in Wairoa
Silver: Saroun Lach from Elite Bakery & Cafe in Wellington
Bronze: Bill Lenh Liem from Greenland Bakery in Botany, Auckland
Highly commended: Sophak Luon from Beaut Bakery in Taupo
Chicken & Vegetables
Gold: Neville Jackson from Jackson's Bakery & Café in
Havelock North
Silver: Anita Arrowsmith from Putaruru Bakehouse & Café
Bronze: Saroun Lach from Elite Bakery & Cafe in Wellington
Highly commended: Lam Ho from Paetiki Bakery in Taupo
Gourmet Fruit
Gold: Ruth Davis from Ma & Pa's Hi-Way Diner in Dunedin
Silver: Patrick Lam from Gold Star Patrick's Pies & Bakery in
Rotorua
Bronze: Shane Kearns from Oslers Bakery Wairoa in Wairoa
Highly commended: Michael Kleog from Ten O'Clock Cookie Bakery
Cafe in Masterton
Gourmet Meat
Gold: Michael Meaclem from Hillmorton Bakery in Christchurch
Silver: Bernard Yap from Bernie's Bakery & Café in Browns
Bay, Auckland
Bronze: Neville Jackson from Jackson's Bakery & Café in
Havelock North
Highly commended: Chad Meehan from Kidds Cakes & Bakery in
Christchurch
Vegetarian
Gold: Bill Lenh Liem from Greenland Bakery in Botany, Auckland
Silver: Mab Peng from Food for Thought in Thames
Bronze: Jason Hay from Richoux Pattisserie in Ellerslie, Auckland
Highly commended: Saroun Lach from Elite Bakery & Cafe in
Wellington
Bacon & Egg
Gold: Neville Jackson from Jackson's Bakery & Café in
Havelock North
Silver: Shane Kearns from Oslers Bakery Wairoa in Wairoa
Bronze: Bernard Yap from Bernie's Bakery & Café in Browns
Bay, Auckland
Highly commended: Bill Lenh Liem from Greenland Bakery in Botany,
Auckland
Mince & Cheese
Gold: Jason Hay from Richoux Pattisserie in Ellerslie, Auckland
Silver: Minh Dien from Express Bakehouse Ngongataha in Rotorua
Bronze: Neville Jackson from Jackson's Bakery & Café in
Havelock North
Highly commended: Sokun Kheng from Golden Crust Bakery in
Gisborne
Steak & Cheese
Gold: Bill Lenh Liem from Greenland Bakery in Botany, Auckland
Silver: Mill St Pack n Save in Hamilton
Bronze: Bernard Yap from Bernie's Bakery & Café in Browns
Bay, Auckland
Highly commended: Mab Peng from Food for Thought in Thames
Seafood
Gold: Neville Jackson from Jackson's Bakery & Café in
Havelock North
Silver: Bill Lenh Liem from Greenland Bakery in Botany, Auckland
Bronze: Shane Kearns from Oslers Bakery Wairoa in Wairoa
Highly commended: Mab Peng from Food for Thought in Thames
Commercial/Wholesale
Gold: Murray Blair Swetman from Gourmet Foods in Tauranga
Silver: John Newell from Oxford Pies in Hamilton
Bronze: Grant Wilson from Maketu Pies in Maketu
Highly commended: Dennis Kirkpatrick from Jimmy's Pies Ltd in
Roxburgh
Supreme Award
Neville Jackson from Jackson's Bakery & Café in Havelock North, for
his chicken and vegetable pie.
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