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« January 2006 | Main | March 2006 »
50% more leisure this weekend. If you're heading Albany way, you could look at the Great Southern Taste Festival. For those in the city, there's the Fremantle International Beer Festival and the Perth City Food and Wine Month will be off and running. Summer can't be here for much longer so also a good chance to catch an outdoor flick with a picnic hamper or just enjoy fish and chips down the beach. You can save the renovations for winter.
Any day now...
March will see the start of a new series of professional cooking workshops at comestibles with the City Food and Wine Series. Working the taste buds in combination of food and drink the series will feature:
Curries and Little Creatures - Tuesday 7th of March
Create a range of curries and accompaniments with the chefs at Comestibles
A Picnic to Wow Your Friends - Monday 13th of March
A picnic basket by master chefs Marianne Kempf and Hans Lang
In the Raw- - Monday 20th March
Seafood presentented in the Japanese and Mediterranean Way with chefs from Yahachi and Theo Kailis of Kailis Brothers.
Throw a Prawn on the BBQ - Monday 27th of March
Don Hancey and Peter Manafis create delicious but simple foods for the BBQ
Wines will be by David Mullins.
All classes are $70 per guest and must be booked in advance.
For bookings and information contact Comestibles on 9421 1222
If fast, formulaic, and factory is getting you down, the Slow Food Movement in Western Australia is having "A Night of Food, Wine and Conversation". It's a free event where you can hear about the Slow Food movement from a West Australian perspective.
Monday 27th February, 7pm-9:30pm
Matter of Taste Cooking School, 103 Harris Road, Bicton
RSVP: mdelcatiinetdotnetdotau
Just received an urgent request from Donnybrook Organic Chicken. It's ASAP as they'd like to compile the information by the 15th of February. So if you know anybody in the South West who raises fowl:
We are still trying to get our organic chicken back in production. The only reason that we are not producing at the moment is that the only slaughter facility in the southwest is no longer able to slaughter for us.We have investigated all other facilities available in WA, they are too far away from the farm for the welfare of the birds and quality control is a major issue.
As you may be aware we are trying to obtain funding assistance to establish an organic slaughter facility for chickens ( both meat and layers) and other fowl such as ducks and geese here on our farm.
Primarily this facility will be to slaughter any organic produce from both ourselves and any other organic growers in the southwest area who need birds slaughtered to organic standard. We will of course also be able to do small kills of both organic and non organic birds.
We have been given a rare opportunity to put our case for federal funding next week and would ask for your support in replying to this email particularly if you are a grower who would make use of this facility, or would want to consider growing birds if the facility were available.
Please pass this infornmation on to anyone you know who may need this facility in the future and especially those who have tried to have small kills done – organic or not-estimates of numbers would be extremely helpful.
We plan to recycle all waste and water from the facility.
You can contact Barry and Linda on 08 9372 1076 or email them at bellorganicatbigponddotcom
And so you should. Things are humming along to get the Autumn issue out to the printers and then into hot little hands. Looking good. Very good.