Monica Galetti

Quotes by Monica Galetti

• I always go for something like mac and cheese if I'm hungover. Pasta is great for soaking everything up.

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• When I was really young, I thought it was really cool to wear red and yellow bike pants with one red sock and one yellow sock.

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• Stay calm and be quick on fixing a problem, stopping a problem head on is vital to running a team.

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• Some people put Marmite on all sorts of dishes - I don't mind dropping a teaspoon into a pot of stew - but it's something I like to eat at home, on the sofa. I have to stick the jar right at the back of the cupboard or I'll eat six slices of toast in one go.

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• My first ambition was to be a brain surgeon.

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• I absolutely love sweet potatoes baked in their skins.

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• I know people who will look at the label on some ham, and if it's a day over they'll throw the whole packet out instead of opening it up and tasting and smelling it.

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• I do love peanut butter and jam on Ryvita. It's a tasty snack.

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• Mum worked in telecommunications and Dad was a mechanic.

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• We had a family beach house in Savai'i in western Samoa. When the tide used to come in it would come under the house and you could watch the fish from sitting in the lounge. It was so beautiful.

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• Extracting the meat from a whole crab is a time-consuming job - picking all the meat out of the legs, claws and body, double-checking for bits of shells, etc. But the flavour makes it worth it, and you get the additional bonus of the crab shells to make a flavourful bisque or stock as a base for other dishes.

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• Cooking with my daughter is a treasured part of my life, as I don't get to spend as much time with her as I would like to.

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• It takes me a long time to unwind when I'm on holiday - at least three or four days.

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• I didn't like Christchurch when I visited a long time ago. I had been camping on the outskirts of some gorgeous little towns throughout the South Island. But when I arrived in Christchurch, I just didn't like it nor find it to be very friendly.

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• On Sundays I love to get to a morning spin session at the gym. That's my time - it's great for stress release and helping me think things through, but I also do it so I can eat everything because I have no willpower.

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• I grew up in Samoa and, looking back, I don't think I realised how wonderful life was back then. The chickens used to run wild on the family plantation and we'd collect their eggs. We'd pick guavas, pineapples, papayas. It was such a normal thing to do.

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• I grew up in Samoa, where food is an important part of our culture. I remember this sea worm, called the palolo, that would lay its larvae once every full moon. You'd go and scoop it up, serve it on a banana leaf with coconut cream and seaweed. Delicious, a real assault on the senses.

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• There's always been more men than women in the profession... I think at certain points young women think 'I want a family' and they can't balance the two.

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• My mum is the youngest of 14, so I have a huge extended family.

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• We had to move to New Zealand when I was eight for a better life.

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