BANANA YOGURT FLAN

175g Wholemeal shortcrust pastry

6 Bananas

145ml Natural yogurt

Grated rind of half an orange

25g Grated dark chocolate

Roll out pastry to line 20cm fluted flan dish.

Mash bananas and beat in 60ml yogurt.

Pour banana mix into flan dish.

Stir remaining yogurt through mixture to give decorative affect.

Sprinkle with grated orange rind.

Bake in oven at 200C for 25-30 mins.

Cool and serve cold, sprinkled with grated chocolate.

Serves 4-6

100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.

Kāpiti and Coast Independent

DELICIOUS DESERT

BANANA YOGURT FLAN