Menu

When you make your selection that meal becomes the set menu for the evening (unless other guests have chosen first). If you are a couple you will both need to eat the same meal as I do not have capacity for multiple dish service. I can make other meals to accomodate food preferences and allergies if required, but again this becomes the set menu for the evening.

Light meals – all $50 per person

Lasagne

It takes 4 hours to prepare the sauce for this lasange, making it rich, served with salad or vegetables and bread

Macaroni and cheese

This can be made with chicken if wished, traditional with a twist, served with salad or vegetables and bread.

Spaghetti bolognaise, beef or chicken

The same sauce for the lasagne is used for the beef sauce. chicken sauce can also be made vegetarian, served with salad or vegetables and bread.

Nachos

Hungarian Goulash

Recipe I was given while recently travelling in Hungary, a family recipe that when I tested it was a hit with guests. Served with bread.

Dinner menu

1 course $60/2 courses $85 / 3 courses $125

Entrée

Baked brie with honey, almonds, dried apricots and pecans and homemade bread (to share)

My family love this and we have it every Christmas Eve, you won’t believe how good it is.

Goats cheese soufflés with salad

Mains

Roasted salmon with seasonal vegetables

Salmon is local to Canterbury, fresh and excellent roasted with tomatoes, capers and fresh herbs from the garden, this dish is not to be missed while you stay at Gem bed and breakfast.

Meatballs (pork or beef with caramelised onion) with caramelised passata sauce and cauliflower puree and pesto

My children have always loved my meatballs, taste of traditional NZ fare.

Beef or chicken pies with seasonal vegetables

The beef filling takes 2 hours to cook which I make the day before. Rich and hearty pies. Served with vegetables.

Crumbed fish fried with salad and roasted potatoes

Market fish crumbed in panko crums, almond meal and parmesan, served with garden fresh salad and my famous roasted potatoes, everyone who eats them asks how I prepare them!

Desserts

NZ Pavlova

Traditional NZ dessert served with cream and seasonal fruit.

Vanilla fruit flan

This is another Gem favourite, served with seasonal fruit.

Breakfast,

Continental

Home made granola
Home made Yoghurt, Stewed Fruit

Cheese and deli meat serving, boiled egg
Home made bread, jam and spread.
Juice, Tea and Coffee

Cooked , Please let me know the night before if you would like a cooked breakfast

Eggs your way
Bacon
Tomato
Mushrooms