In today's Bite: Pacific flavours

Smoked fish, eggplant and green bean salad. Photo / Bite magazine

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This week, Bite's recipes are drawn from the foods and cultures that surround us in New Zealand.

For his recipes, Geoff Scott has harvested honey from the bees in his backyard and it is Airborne Honey Week on 16 March so perfect timing for him to share his fantastically good honey and walnut bread that is a staple on the menu at Vinnies, served with cheese. He recommends using one of New Zealand's single variety floral honeys for this honey crème brulee and some pohutukawa, white clover or vipers bugloss for this honey parfait.

Honey and walnut bread, honey brulee and honey parfait. Photos / Bite magazine

Warren is using the barbecue to cook finger food for a late summer party and also using it to smoke his freshly caught fish, which is a very smart idea that makes smoking easy - we should all be doing it.

Aaron is turning his fish into a ceviche salad, which is a Mexican variation of raw fish, known as kokoda in Fiji, oka l'a in Samoa, ota ika in Tonga, ika mata in the Cook Islands... it's everywhere throughout the Pacific and you will find a lot of it at this weekend's Pasifika Festival.

Robert Oliver is a food ambassador at this year's festival and he is sharing three recipes from his award-winning books Me'a Kai and Mea'ai Samoa to help us all up the flavours of Polynesia.

Warren's barbecue finger food: cheerios, sweet chilli mussels, chooks in a blanket and fish 'n chips. Photos / Bite magazine

Make some koko cupcakes for afternoon tea, a goat and green pawpaw curry for a Saturday feast and a green banana and green bean salad to take to your next barbecue.

But to start the week - some more smoked fish, this time a substantial smoky salad for Monday Night Dinner.

Robert Oliver's Samoan recipes: green banana salad, goat and pawpaw curry and koko cupcakes. Photo / Bite magazine

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