Slow Food End of Year Feast!

Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland is hosting a wonderful ‘End of Year Feast’ on Monday 30th November. Julie Shelton has been doing an amazing job to give locals the opportunity to sample some of the most wonderful regional produce.

Here’s the teaser:
-           Max Porter’s famous duck liver & spanner crab paté
-           Betel leaf morsels
-           Heritage tomato salad and Cedar Street Cheeserie buffalo mozzarella
-           Thrice-cooked Bottle Tree Hill organic pork hock and belly salad – Chinese/Thai-style
-           Gympie Farm Cheese yoghurt with beetroot & pecans
-           Slow-braised Thompson Buffalo
-           Albacore tuna from Mooloolaba, Spanish-style – with tomato, green olives & peppers
-           Thai-style puddings

Tickets are fast running out so, so that you don’t miss out on this wonderful dinner make sure you book ASAP!!

What:      Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland’s End-of-Year Festive Feast
When:     Monday, 30 November 2009
Time:      6:00pm for 6:30pm start
Where:    RSL Hall, Bunya Street, Maleny
Cost:       $61 for members of Slow Food (or registered food producers**) or $68 for non-members
Drinks:    Available from the RSL Bar (not BYO)
Book:      leader@slowfoodsunshinecoast.org.au or 0439 944 690

For more information about this event see the Slow Food Website:
www.slowfoodsunshinecoast.org.au

This post was written by Petra Frieser – Local Harvest
To find out more about the Sunshine Coast’s regional growers and producers visit:
www.localharvest.com.au

Do you know where your pork comes from?

Anyone who follows my blogs would know how I feel about these farming practices, but here it is again (sorry to bang on about it but…), the new ad for awareness for pig factory farming practices in Australia. Do you know where you pork comes from?

To see the latest ad click on the following link:

www.animalsaustralia.org/tv/factory-farming

This post was written by Petra Frieser – Local Harvest
To find out more about the Sunshine Coast’s regional growers and producers visit:
www.localharvest.com.au