I posted this jar of olives on social media the other day after my Italian mother-in-law cheekily goes to me “hey blogger isn’t this something you want to photograph?”. It makes me smile thinking back to this comment as the whole concept of blogging and me taking photos of food didn’t make any sense to her when I first…
Tag Archive for in the kitchen
Perth, Product Sampling, Recipes
Cooking more with my cookbooks – first up Jamie’s Comfort Food!
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My cookbook collection has grown over the years with most sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust. I tend to google just before cooking with the intention of saving time, but it doesn’t always work out that way. So one of my many 2015 New Years Foodie Resolutions is to start cooking more recipes from my…
Pemberton, Product Sampling, Recipes, Western Australia - regional
Sophie Zalokar’s Food of the Southern Forests Cookbook
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It was a pleasant surprise to receive Sophie Zalokar’s beautiful new cookbook Food of the Southern Forests in the post. I had met Sophie earlier this year as part of Taste Great Southern and was inspired by her passion for the Western Australia’s Southern Forests Region. Over a coffee, I learnt how Sophie started out…
Product Sampling
Cooking with Continental French Onion Simmer Soup
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I pretty much use Continental French Onion Simmer Soup for everything except soup I love that it is an easy way to add flavour to whatever I’m cooking. My two fav dishes to make with Continental French Onion Simmer Soup is a Cream Cheese dip and my trusty Potato Bake. The French Onion Cream Cheese Dip is my…
Product Sampling
Made my first ice cream cake with Betty Crocker cake mix
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I love my sweets and will always check out the dessert menu before deciding on mains and entrees. So with my new found time at home and in the kitchen I’ve been getting into my baking. When I was working full-time in the city, one of the girls in my department used to bring in the…
Perth, Product Sampling, Recipes
Baking my first apple tart with Flora pro-activ
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Since the arrival of junior burger I’ve gotten to know my kitchen very well! For those of you who follow my blog you’ll recall I was dining out 4 out of 7 nights with the “intent” of cooking more. Each year the goal to cook more was on my New Year’s Resolution list but as the year went…
Leederville, Mount Lawley, Northbridge, Perth, Swan Valley
New feature – Top 5 Western Australia Produce & Food Picks
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I’ve always been a big supporter of local Perth restaurants, cafes and bars but it’s only been recently that I’ve started to appreciate the amazing WA agriculture and food. I put it to lack of the time and lack of home cooking whilst juggling my day job, burger boy & I’s food business and the…
Competitions, Highgate, Inglewood, Mount Lawley, Perth
WIN 1 of 3 Recipes & Ramblings Cookbooks thanks to the Beaufort Street Network (closed)
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10/7/14 post update: Congrats facebook fan Joel Walsh, instagrammer @lilmisshaley and blog commenter Lisa you’ve won The Beaufort Street Network Recipes & Ramblings - Beaufort Street Festival Cookbook Vol I & II and congrats also to your family/friends that you’ll be cooking for! I have three sets of Recipes & Ramblings Ramblings Cookbooks to giveaway thanks…
Competitions
WIN 1 of 3 Cafe 26 salad dressing & marinade packs (closed)
19/6/14 post update - Winners of my Café 26 Salad Dressing competition are Sam Greenwald, Simon and Sharon Fawcett. Thank you everyone for providing me with awesome post ideas for foodie cravings and my newsletter. To celebrate WA Day I have Cafe 26’s salad dressings & marinade packs to giveaway to 3 foodie cravings readers (each pack contains three 250ml sample…
Perth
burger boy cooks up a BBQ - first time in ages!
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Since opening a food business, I’ve been doing all the home cooking. burger boy used to cook us seafood and heaps of BBQs which I miss as it’s different to my usual dishes. The other night, we had our BBQ dinner sponsored by Barbeques Galore which I was quite excited about as this meant burger…
CBD, Events, Perth
WA’s Signature Dish Perth & Surrounds regional cook off
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It’s been exciting to be a part of the Buy West Eat Best’s WA Signature Dish journey and watch passionate home cooks use Western Australian produce to create amazing dishes. I got in on the behind-the-scenes action and went along to watch WA’s Signature Dish Perth & Surrounds regional finalists - Rhiannon Birch, Wandia Chua-anusorn,…
Interviews, Perth
Interview with Rhiannon Birch, WA’s Signature Dish Perth regional finalist
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I was really excited to hear that foodie cravings reader Rhiannon Birch made it to WA’s Signature Dish’s Perth & Surrounds regional finals. Tomorrow, Rhiannon will be battling it out with a cook off against other finalists Bree Nash, Ron Timmins and Wanida Chua-anusorn at Fraser’s Restaurant. The Perth & Surrounds winner will then be mentored by Fraser’s Executive…
Albany, Denmark, Interviews, Pemberton, Western Australia - regional
Coffee with Sophie Zalokar, WA’s Signature Dish competition mentor
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Chef, food writer and owner of Foragers Field Kitchen & Cooking School, Sophie Zalokar (originally from Fremantle) will be mentoring the Southern Forest regional finalist for WA’s Signature Dish to compete in the grand finale on WA Day at the Perth Cultural Centre. WA’s Signature Dish is a competition run by Western Australia’s Department of Agriculture and Food to celebrate…
Albany, Competitions, Denmark, Events, Margaret River, Mt Barker, Pemberton, Perth, Western Australia - regional
Have you got a recipe worthy of being crowned WA’s Signature Dish?
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I am a huge fan of all events and festivals that celebrate Western Australia’s amazing local produce and food. So when Buy West Eat Best approached me to be one of four official bloggers to follow their behind-the-scene journey as they search the state for WA’s Signature Dish, I jumped at the opportunity. If you’re an…
Product Sampling
Getting all jazzed up for my first taste of the Jazz Apple
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It was a pleasure to be invited to celebrate the launch of Jazz Apple’s 2014 season and taste the first apples fresh off the orchard at Crown Perth’s Bistro Guillaume last Wednesday evening. Since meeting local producers and chefs in Western Australia’s Great Southern at the beginning of the year, I’ve been absolutely inspired by…
