Pork, Puha, Eel and Cress Oil

This is a dish where all of the primary ingredients can be found wild in the one place, from the same land. I’m talking about the land I grew up on. As children, my sisters, Tess and Tamie, and I used to pick puha (also known as wild watercress) from along the banks of the stream running through our farm. As we walked down from our old farmhouse on Awakau Road to the Totara Stream, bag in one hand and eel net in the other, playing hide-and-seek among