Have you ever used Roundup to kill weeds in your lawn or garden?
New research is showing that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is contaminating everything from food and air to groundwater and even human beings. Read the rest of this entry »
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Is there any foodstuff as dodgy as olive oil? Human beings have been defrauding and occasionally poisoning one another with the stuff – or simulacra of it – since the beginning of cooking.
Download the Guardian Weekly’s review of Tom Muller’s book Extra Virginity: The sublime and scandalous world of olive oil. Right click and save to your computer to download [ JPG ].
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Kris Lloyd
Rather like her exceptional Charleston soft brie, Kris Lloyd oozes with optimism, but even she is amazed at the growth of her company Woodside Cheese Wrights.
In the last six months of 2011, revenue climbed 35 per cent compared with the same period in 2010.
In 13 years she has turned around the Adelaide Hills business that she bought in 1999 for what she guardedly says was “not much, but not a steal”, despite starting with no knowledge at all about cheesemaking. Read the rest of this entry »
Sinclair’s Gully Winery owners, Sue and Sean Delaney, are delighted to continue to promote local artists. “It is a wonderful additional use of our new Rubida Room”, says Sue, “we love getting people together who have a mutual interest and it’s always a joyous occasion.”
Basket Range artist Meg Burdett will present an exhibition of her work at the winery during April. The exhibition, entitled “Just About Everything”, will open on 31 March and run until 29 April during the winery’s opening hours of noon to 4pm on weekends and public holidays. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Basket Range, Sinclairs
Kanmantoo Bacon & Quality Meats has been awarded third prize for its shortcut bacon in the National Bacon Awards for Excellence.
On the back of Australian Bacon Week, March 18-25, the local smallgoods producer was judged third overall on a variety of factors including appearance, aroma and taste.
The initiative is designed to encourage shoppers to buy Australian grown pork, with reports of more than 2.6 million kilograms of foreign pig meat arriving in the country each week.
Consumers are asked to look for the pink square PorkMark on bacon products – the only way to guarantee it is made using 100% Australian bacon.
Story from The Courier.
Tags: Bacon, Kanmantoo, Smallgoods
Sue and Sean Delaney of Sinclair’s Gully Wines at Norton Summit, are thrilled to have been placed second at the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards Presentation and Gala Dinner held in Cairns on Friday, March 2. Read the rest of this entry »
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Top class Adelaide Hills Bed and Breakfast Offers the chance to Win Two Nights Accommodation at its Hahndorf Retreat.
Amble at Hahndorf is using the power of social media to thank its fans for their support by giving them the chance to win two nights free accommodation, valued at $390, at their Adelaide Hills B&B. Entry is simple and takes only a couple of minutes, requiring only a ‘like’ of their Facebook page, then sharing it with friends and completing the entry form.
The competition runs until March 9, with the winner to be announced within 7 days of the end of the promotion.
For details go to www.amble-at-hahndorf.com.au
Tags: Accommodation, Amble, B&B, Hahndorf
Caesar Salad with Crunchy Crumbed Fish
Choice tasted 12 caesar salad dressings in a blind taste test with Beerenberg coming out on top.
From humble beginnings in the Adelaide Hills to one of Australia’s most popular producers, Beerenberg offers more than 60 products, exporting to 24 countries.
The salad, said to be invented in the 1920s by Italian restaurateur Caesar Cardini, is a good mix of salty, fresh, creamy and crunchy ingredients and is based on cos lettuce leaves, coddled egg, bacon, anchovies, parmesan, croutons and a creamy dressing made of mayonnaise, lemon juice, anchovies and garlic.
Home cooks needing help making the mayo can try Beerenberg Farm’s Creamy Parmesan Caesar Dressing. It’s a handy addition and was recently voted by Choice magazine as a favourite in a blind taste test.
Tags: Beerenberg, Condiments, Hahndorf
The Hills Producers Market at Uraidla, now in its 18th year, is all about local produce.
Long-term stallholder Sue McIntee of Basket Range says everything is made, grown, sewn or baked in the Hills.
“We’re one of the smaller markets, but everything is local,” she said.
Mrs McIntee has a wide range of quilts and needlework items on her stall, while Yvonne Badenoch of Carey Gully sews cushions, clothes hangers, etc, and makes greetings cards.
Dagmar Skipworth’s plants and strawberries are always popular.
The market also features home baked gourmet foods, jams and preserves, jewellery, clothing, bags, teddy bears, wines, oils, skin care, seasonal produce, a barbecue, teas and coffees.
It is open on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month, 10am to 3pm, in the Institute.
Celebrity chef Simon Bryant makes gnocchi from local produce at the inaugural Mt Pleasant Farmers’ Market on Sunday.
Demand for fresh and local produce was so strong Mt Pleasant’s first farmers’ market on Saturday that many stalls sold out within two hours.
More than 2000 people filled the town’s showgrounds and snapped up much of the product on offer in a turnout that has been branded “phenomenal”.
Market committee deputy chairperson Faye McGoldrick said organisers were optimistic they might attract less than half that number of shoppers to the inaugural event.
“We were not expecting that many people,” she said. “We were really hoping that if we could get about 800 people to our first market we would have been thrilled.”
About 36 stalls supplied a mix of produce from eggs and dairy to fresh fruit and vegetables, wine, baked goods, flours, native foods, meat, honey, jams and preserves.
“We have done a lot of work to try and get a really good range of products,” Ms McGoldrick said.
Fresh and local
Two Wells organic vegetable grower Heather Baker was one of the many stallholders to sell out on the day.
“I didn’t think it would be quite this busy,” she said.
“A lot of my customers have been locals and they have all said they want fresh, local produce.”
Celebrity chef Simon Bryant, from the ABC TV series The Cook and The Chef, drew a large crowd with his cooking demonstrations using local produce. Read the rest of this entry »
