We will be at the  .......

 Manawatu Wine & Food Festival

12 - 13 June

Awapuni Racing & Function Centre

Palmerston North

It’s Show time!

The Wine & Foodshows are underway.

We've really enjoyed meeting so many people in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland while attending these shows in the past. Last year we did not attend the Wellington or Christchurch show, but were certainly at the Royal Show in Christchurch. A new show for us was the Christmas Gift Extravaganza in Rotorua, and this year we will be at the Home & Leisure Show. We also attended the NZ National Fieldays, the Waikato Home & Garden Show & the Rotorua Gift Show.
At these shows you can always sample the range of products and take advantage of ‘Show Specials’, so come along & have some tasting fun.

We will also be at the .....

NZ National Fieldays

16 - 19 June

Mystery Creek

Hamilton

Teacher's Pot (cooking, of course!)– Allison Williams.
Travelling and working with children sound like the ambitions of so many beauty queens. Our resident ‘Miss Lime’ has travelled widely and returned to be a full time secondary school teacher. We’ve yet to uncover the inevitable beauty pageant scandals but watch this space!
Having swatted the travel bug, Allison settled into work at Taradale High School and the kitchen at St Andrews Limes. Three of our best selling products were Allison’s creations - Lime & Mustard Seed Dressing, Lime & Chilli Plash and Lime & Lemon grass Drizzle.
After spending her youth as a globe trotting gym-junky, Allison has seen the light and currently lists her interests as food and movies - sounds much less tiring!
Allison gets great satisfaction from knowing that the St Andrews range of products has been so successful and that Ant is kept on track by 2 wonderful women while she is away at work.

Allison is always experimenting and loves to share ideas:

Quick Lime – 3 easy tips for delicious results

1. Make a cream of ricotta cheese and SAL Lime Curd and dollop over fresh or baked fruit.
2.Put teaspoons of SAL Lime Curd (or Saffron Lime Curd) into ready prepared sweet pastry cases. Sift with icing sugar.
3. Mix SAL Lime Curd and Lime & Passionfruit Crush together and serve over baked or grilled peaches, with a dollop of vanilla icecream  on the side.

Share your recipe here

We are always delighted and interested to hear how St Andrews Limes products are being used. Send us a recipe, long or short, and we’ll put it on the website.

Did you know that ......

St Andrews Limes sells Kaffir Lime leaves and Preserved Limes and Lemons (vacuum packed in small quantities)?

 Lime Rocket Cooler

1/4 cup Lime & Vanilla Bean Syrup

1 cup white rum

1 litre pineapple juice

400ml can light coconut milk

crushed ice

lime slices

mint leaves

Mix Lime & Vanilla Bean Syrup, rum & pineapple juice together. Add coconut milk & stir to combine. place crushed ice in a large jug, pour over rum mixture. Decorate with lime slices & mint leaves. Enjoy!

Lime & Cognac Cocktails

2 nips cognac

2 - 3 ice cubes

1 tbsp fresh lime juice

sprigs fresh mint

200 mls dry ginger ale

1 slice fresh lime

Pour cognac into tall glass over ice cubes, add lime juice & mint. Tope with ginger ale, add a slice of fresh lime. Serve.

Harvest Season March - August

The crop has been harvested. 90% of our limes are either squeezed, preserved or cooked into one of our delicious recipes.

The crop was excellent, and of great quality.

As the limes turn yellow the brix, or sugar level rises.

So the last 10% are left to be picked later, after turning yellow when they have more juice and are a bit sweeter than those harvested earlier. Whether the lime is green or yellow on the outside, the flesh is always green, whereas a lemon's flesh is yellow with pips.
Limes have no pips which makes processing easier but means that you can’t grow them from seed.
Ant Williams is undeniably New Zealand’s most knowledgeable lime grower.

Love Life, Love Limes, Every Day

New season's Lime Juice - pure & unfiltered

The 1 litre bottles are selling well.

We regret we no longer have the 330ml size, owing to a 'mechanical failure'. It is very disappointing as

we think the juice looks more attractive in glass bottles.