Regional Flavours 2010

This comes a little late but Southbank played host to Regional Flavour this past weekend - an event show-casing 80 local producers from South East Queensland.  There was tons of awesome cheese and wine available as well as all kinds of other goodies.

I was lucky enough to team up with Skye to do some demo's on the main stage. She did a great demo of her signature Chocolate Avocado Mousse dish and I did a little Zucchini Flower with Goats Curd and Panzanella entree.

Best part of the day was seeing so many kids get excited about cooking and their willingness to try new flavours - I was pretty impressed they were willing to try the zucchini dish!

The team at South Bank are trying to hold it as an annual event - stay tuned for next years!


Thanks to http://www.loveisaroundtheworld.com/ for the great picture.

Yuzusco!

This little bottle of green sauce has been my latest obsession - it's so good! I don't know if I missed the boat on it earlier or where it's been hiding - but I've gone through half a bottle in less than a week. It's basically a version of Tabasco sauce made out of green chillis, vinegar and yuzu - a little Japanese citrus fruit.

It works with pretty much anything and adds an awesome tangy, citrus kick.

Masterchef Junior

I think I've said it a few times now; but I'm so excited about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRhTIOXgbAM

I've been chatting to some of the producers on board with it and it sounds like these kids are unbelievable!

Bring on Junior!

Congratulations Adam!

Masterchef has wrapped for 2010 and I couldn't be more happy with the result - Callum and Adam were both totally deserving of their spots in the top 2 and I was stoked to see Adam walk away with the title. I can't wait to buy his cookbook!

The MC experience has pretty much been my life for close to a year now - I'm a little sad to see it come to an end but very excited to see where we all move forward with this.

This time last year, I was in a complete rut - not loving uni, unmotivated about the future and just unhappy in general. I feel like a whole new person now - I'm still studying but I feel like I have genuine options on the table and I can go anywhere I like with my future.

I get to spend most of my time doing things I love - prepping food and helping out at James St Cooking School, asking the chefs endless questions and learning all the time, working with the crew from the Courier Mail and researching and writing about food and working on lots of little projects that pop up around the place as well.

I've been absolutely blown away by all of the support and positive messages I've had through out the show - I'm incredibly lucky to have so many brilliant people in my life. For anyone that's come up and said hello - thank you all for being so friendly and positive!