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Good Food & Wine Show – Adelaide

Date: 8-10 October 2010 Location: Adelaide Event & Exhibition Centre (Goyder Pavilion) Event Type: Open to Public Visit website

Sustainable food

Sustainable ethically sourced produce is the start of good cooking. You just cant turn rubbish into a good dish. If i dont know where my food comes from and the impact that has I am already a little reluctant to cook with it. With most produce the decisions boil down...

Not all milk is created equal...

Pictures of happy herds on rolling lush pastures on labels may not always be the case. Imagine if the milk you drank was purchased at marginal prices from dairy farmers far and wide . The cows were in "full housing" and not free to access real pasture for the duration...

These kids get good produce ! Adelaide Showgrounds Farmers Market kids club

The kids at the Adelaide Showgrounds Farmers Market helped get the chooks and veggies for this recipe from the stall holders and joined in on the cook up, heres the recipe.. Free range chicken Egg Noodles Serves two kids 30 ml peanut oilFree range chicken thigh sliced1 free range egg...

Eat local?

The issues surrounding food miles can be complex. I'm a believer in a rough appropriation of the so called 100 mile diet, give or take a few miles here and there. While not perfect, it is still a useful tool to apply when buying most produce because its still the...

Free range pig crispy skin Berkshire pig belly

was on the menu for a hands on cooking class at Sticky Rice Cooking School in the Adelaide Hills along with hand dived wild scallops in burnt chilli sambal, poached free range Barossa Farm Produce chooks. Crispy skin Berkshire free range pig belly Serves 6 with rice as main INGREDIENTS...

Grass fed Red Angus Ribs

Animal Welfare League South Australia took over the Kitchen Door at Penny's Hill Winery in early Nov I got to share the menu for the night with resident Chef Ben Sommariva to knock out a five course menu of shared plates. These guys really get it, great produce sourced predominantly...

where's the bycatch?

Depending on who's data you believe there seems to be a growing awareness that the species that appear on most menus and the fishing methods employed for these fish are simply not sustainable. Not to far down the track we will be increasingly turning to fish that during my early...

Organic coconut palm sugar grilled pineapple and banana, chili and lime sorbet.

December, and the quality of pineapples and bananas in local markets is great so this recipe went on a cooking class or three over the last month. It works really well with a few mango cheeks thrown in and is a perfect warmer weather desert with a hint of savoury...

No garden ? Get sprouting

I am a sprouter, there is always something in a hemp bag hanging in my kitchen, if it sprouts I will eat it! (Believe me I have tried to sprout the maddest things). My all time favorite sprout is lentils, they have a great earthy flavour and the most pleasant...

Triple B Biodynamic grass fed shabu shabu

The Willunga Farmers Market celebrated it birthday on Saturday February 26th. William the Rooster ( the market mascot from the original "old" market location) was ceremoniously instated at his new home in the town square by Zannie Flanagan. No doubt he'll be keeping an eye on things for many years...

Apple, barley and almond muffins

Its March and apples are back. This recipe was one from an Adelaide Showgrounds Farmers Market kids club "muffin frenzy". Makes 6 super big or 12 medium muffins 300g wholemeal Flour2 tsp baking powder1/2 tsp lemon zest150g sugar1 tsp ground cinamon240ml buttermilk 65 ml Australian extra virgin olive oil1 free...

figs, cameras and cookbooks

First Fig for the year on my White Adriatic tree, Alan Benson snapped it before it was chucked into the oven with a few Willabrand brown turkeys and baked. Part of an up comming ( finally !) cookbook due out with Lantern later in the year....heres a little excerpt ,...

Moot Yang Gunya Festival & Mundulla Show

Date: 5-6 March 2011 Location: Mundulla Showgrounds, South Australia Event Type: Open to Public Visit Website

South East Field Days

Date: 18 & 19 March 2011 Location: Lucindale, South Australia Event Type: Open to Public Visit website

This little piggy

Ok , this picture of the crispy pig belly looks nice enough but could you eat it while thinking about images of sow stalls , farrowing crates , pigs crammed in sheds ?Thankfully the Australian Pork Limited's decision last year to phase out sow stalls voluntarily by 2017 should improve...

lamb with a conscience

There are a growing number of lamb producers who have built a production process around the welfare of their flock. This is one of the happier food industry scenarios whereby the product not only tastes better but these farmers can command a better price for their toil and the sheep...

Stepping on eggshells...free range eggs

If you are buying free range eggs there are a few things to consider. You may be surprised to learn that do not have a national enforceable independent certification system that applies to the whole industry like the EU has. This is truly a case a buyer beware and not...

Kitchen at Kilkenny Primary School

Date: 4 November 2011 Location: Kilkenny Primary School Event Type: Public Visit Website

salt baked MSC Spencer Gulf King prawn with "sort of " nouc mam cham

Serves 4 as a generous entree This method of cooking relies on super heated rock salt and "burying" the whole prawns in it to cook. The result is a paper thin head, tail and carapace ( fancy word for the prawns mid section , shell , feet and flippers) ,...

lucky prawns

Some 25 000 tonnes of prawns are caught from Australian waters per year. A great deal of these will end up on our tables on Christmas day, our enthusiasm for "chucking a prawn on the BBQ," has become almost ritualistic. So mention the word Christmas to a prawn and he...

MSC certified Coorong Wild Seafood Mulloway steamed dumplings

Coorong Wild Seafood MSC certified Mulloway is too good to waste so if you have some fish trim , heres a recipe to use it all up , dumplings ! makes about a dozen 200 g Coorong Wild Seafood mulloway pieces , skin offPinch sea salt1 free range egg whiteBig...

Norwood Food and Wine Festival, 2012

I was recently down at the Norwood Food and Wine festival, which was a great day with a excellent blend of Food, Wine and local entertainment. Heres the recipe for the Rolled Lamb neck with almond and rosemary, braised lentils dirt(y) Kangaroo Island Pure Grain red nugget lentils with smoked...

Harvest Festival McLaren Vale

Early January's visit to McLaren Vale to cook at the inaugural Harvest Festival; amazing local support and an unexpected huge crowd. A quick detour to Wilunga Farmers Market (thanks for all the free product for my demos to the stall holders, you know who you are) for Venison, Berries, butter,...

Where the good stuff grows

I am a mad keen veggie gardner and can vouch that homegrown tastes better, organic home grown better still. There are a few challenges to get a good veggie patch going, the right soil, watering regime ,companion planting knowledge, correct planting times and places ,harvest timing , maintenance and most...