Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

Wednesday 28 March to Saturday 1 April 

As a chef I have the amazing opportunity to travel all over our beautiful country and this month is no exception. April takes me to the beautiful Carlton gardens surrounding Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building for Melbourne’s International Flower and Garden Show where I will be demonstrating beautiful seasonal recipes complimented by Lindeman’s wines. I also love to give out great tips for cooking up your gardens harvest and how to make the most of your baskets full of produce. This month’s featured recipe is my delicious recipe for fried tomatoes below, this dish makes a great starter, side dish or light lunch teemed with some cooked chicken or seared salmon. Click Here for more info.

1770 Agnes Waters - Queensland Rail

Departs 12 April 

Feel like a casual, relaxing train trip enjoying some of our scenic coast line, local wines and a delicious menu of oysters, tiger prawns, wagyu beef carpaccio with organic olives, endive and lemon and mint mayonnaise, followed by confit duck, grappa and pistachio ravioli, and seared tuna with speck, parmesan and fennel…..almost tempted, then we finish with a zabaglione, amaretti and brandied prune semifreddo – a favourite from my cook book. If you need a relaxing break away from driving, busy airplane terminals and want to be taken on a journey, join me and check out the link below for Queensland Rail’s Sunlander trip from 1770 to Brisbane.More info.

Food Tales

Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 April 

If writing and chatting about food is something more your style you might like to head out to South Western Queensland and join me in Gatton, Laidley and Esk for Queensland Writers Centre’s – Food Tales. I will be conducting several community food writing workshops titled ‘’Cooking Up Memories’’. I love hearing food stories from anyone and can be easily led astray for hours with a tale about a recipe, a story about your favourite food memory or even your food disaster, so check out the links to come along and share your food tales. Click Here for more information.

Melbourne HIA Home Show 

You will see me in action at the Melbourne HIA Show at the Melbourne Convension Centre 28th to 29th April. I will there cooking up a storm with my partners VZUG.  I look forward to seeing you there!   Click Here

The Brisbane Home Show 

You will see me in action at the Brisbane Home Show at the RNA Showgrounds 3rd to 4th and 10th to 11th March. I will there cooking up a storm with my partners VZUG.  I look forward to seeing you at the Brisbane Home Show!   

Escape on a cooking journey to discover Sicily on the Sunshine Coast! 

Join me as for a cooking experience of a life time at the very beautiful Freestyle Escape Cooking School, Towen Mountain, Sunshine Coast. Amidst the rainforest with views over the hinterland we will be preparing a hands on Sicilian banquet lunch using fresh produce from the magnificent Freestyle escape gardens. Indulge in all things Italian, a glass of wine or two and take home a signed copy of my new cook book, “My Taste of Sicily” Tickets are still available for Saturday, 17th March Book Now on Click here  

Check out two amazing competition prizes I'm running in conjunction with Freestyle Escape on my Blog Click Here to see!!

SAVE SUMMIT

Monday 26 March If you believe in the power of women to transform society through practical action. If you care about your cost of living AND our planet ... you'll love the SAVE Summit. Amazing entertainment, speakers and demonstrations of sustainable cooking, fashion, green DIY... I will be there doing a live cooking demonstration.

Plus your take-home action plan to save $1000 or more by saving energy and cutting waste and pollution through simple actions - in your home, your transport, your food and your shopping. Take a couple of hours out ... join us for SAVE. It's a way of living - only better! To purchase tickets Click Here.

Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

Wednesday 28 March to Saturday 1 April  It is regarded as the largest and most successful horticultural event in the Southern Hemisphere and is ranked in the top five flower shows in the world. I will be there as part of the Lindemans Open Garden cooking and sharing some glorious recipes. Click Here for more info and to visit the Lindemans website for your chance to WIN tickets.

February 2012

The featured event for this month is in Wagga Wagga the largest inland City in NSW nestled on the banks of the magnificent Murrumbidgee River, with a population of about 60,0000 people. It is the "capital" of the Riverina Region and the major support city for some 200,000 people who live and work in the rich southern agricultural area of the State. To the west lies Griffith, the heart of New South Wales’ biggest wine producing region. The Riverina is one of the most productive and diverse agricultural regions in the country, giving rise to their claim as the “food bowl of Australia”. Located in southern New South Wales, the Riverina extends from the rolling foothills of the south-west slopes to the outback.   

 

   

 

 

 

I will be in Wagga Wagga at Food I Am for a series of hands on cooking classes with inspired dishes from my holiday travels to Sardinia, Spain and Sicily from the 20th to 22nd February 2012. To see more details for each of the classes and how to book Click Here