Spanner crabs are not new to me, but it has been some time since I had quality fresh spanner crab and I forgot how GOOD it is. There is nothing quite like a spanner crab, live, straight from the boat and into the boiling water. Sensational! And before I get any hate mail, I numbed [...]
I have been quite fascinated by the whole concept of foraging. It has always been on my radar, and over the years I have met a number of chefs / cooks / producers and people who just love doing it, who have broadened their own food horizons to include a number of wild foods. However, [...]
I am a sucker for a pig story. I don’t know what it is but I just love pigs – both on the plate and off! If there is an opportunity to visit a farm and interact with some piggies, it doesn’t take much to convince me. It was with this in mind that I [...]
I love a good roadtrip, and a visit to Bunya Red Farm near Kingaroy was the perfect incentive. Having discovered Bunya Red Farm’s fabulous capers and caperberries, some time ago, I was keen to find out more about their production and discover more about Mandy Evan’s journey of innovation that led her to farm capers [...]
I often say, I love all of my producers, and I do. And I know I shouldn’t have favourites, but when it comes to Mighty Bean Tempeh, and the two absolutely beautiful souls behind it, Julie and Michael Joyce, I can’t help it… they are one of my favourite producers and have been for over [...]
Our Farm to Your Plate is a pastured beef producer based at Gunalda, north of Gympie. They are relatively new to the direct beef sales industry, though not at all new to the lifestyle and hard work to make it all happen, producing quality pastured beef that has been grass fed, grass finished and which [...]
I recently visited the home of my favourite Sunshine Coast honey producer, Hum Honey. Lovely Leisa Sams and her husband Tony, are based in Peachester, a very pretty part of the Sunshine Coast. High on the range, you are surrounded by many wonderful vantage points on their property, one in particular, overlooking the magical Glasshouse [...]
Ahhh. Whangaroa you have my heart. It would have to be one of the hidden jewels of the earth. Part of me wants to say, ‘Go there go there’. They other part wants me to stay silent so it retains its unspoilt beauty and tranquillity and it can just be mine, and a handful of [...]
Visiting Sunshine Coast beef producer Maleny Black Angus Beef in the beautiful Sunshine Coast Hinterland… There is nothing quite like the taste of grass fed beef. The only problem is, what is often passed off as grass fed, isn’t really, and the point of difference to observe here, is that what you really should be [...]
Whangaroa is the heart of Northland, the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the more remote and the lesser known, but equally beautiful harbour, north of the Bay of Islands. What is also beautiful, is the people – they don’t come much more beautiful, than from these parts. A genuine [...]
