Gourmet Garden Cook Off – Day 2

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SJW Mushroom Fields. How lovely are these little fellas?

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The table set for a mushroom feast cooked by the most lovely Sammy and Bella; Peking Duck broth with duck and mushroom dumplings, followed by a delicate egg-net omelette filled with mussels and mushrooms and topped with pork belly and caramel sauce.

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Dessert: A fanciful little scene of meringue mushrooms perched on mushroom soil and chilli infused ganache, garnished with tiny flowers and ginger cream.

I just have to make mention of our tour of the Gourmet Garden factory. I was struck by the enthusiasm of the employees AND the smiles on the faces of everyone we passed. This is a small company doing big things and doing them right. I was really proud to have been involved with them for this competition.

Check out some of the other wrap ups from around the web (they obviously consumed less wine than me last week and are stringing words together much more easily…)

Amanda from Cooker and a Looker

Amanda from Cooking for Busy Mums

Carolyn from Desire Empire

Lisa from Bake, Bike, Blog

Anne from Domesblissity

Alberto from Mucha Vida (you may need to know some Spanish for this one ;)

Coming up: the final day, and the cook off!

Now we’re cooking

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Gourmet Garden Blog Off/Cook Off Day 1     Thank you to Freestyle Escape, Jody from Stay at Home Mum, Lorraine from Not Quite Nigella (don’t you love when people are so much nicer than what you ever thought they could be? That happened.), Kim McCosker of 4 Ingredients fame (who is lucky she didn’t [...]

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Cooking with Herbs Cookbook

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As promised, I have a special treat for you today! I’ve compiled the recipes I cooked for the Gourmet Garden blog off/cook off last year (plus a bonus recipe that you might have spotted today if you follow me on Instagram) into a PDF cookbook. It’s available for you to download for free! Yay! Just [...]

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Thai Fish Cakes

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If you were reading this blog at this time last year, you would have seen the recipes I cooked as part of the Gourmet Garden Blog Off/Cook Off competition. They were apparently delicious enough to get me to the semi-final, where I had to cook against another blogger at the Good Food and Wine Show [...]

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Husband. Take note.

All I want for Mother's Day...

I had every plan of writing a thoughtful and significant post to kick off the relaunch of this blog. But, Mother’s Day is coming. And my handbag, bought for $25 eighteen months ago in all it’s manmade-material glory, is falling apart. I am a little tired of fishing the contents of my bag (generally a [...]

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It’s back. It’s new. It’s improved!

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Photo by dominiqs on Flickr If you’re connected to the blog over on Facebook, you’ll be aware that in a mad moment where I believed that I was a ninja web developer, I managed to delete my blog. Rather than sob and grieve over A YEAR’S WORTH OF WRITING THAT I WILL NEVER GET BACK, [...]

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