Oh yes it was a sensational 3 whole days.  The Good Food & Wine Show Melbourne… everything Melbourne has to offer from chefs to the best fresh produce and hands on classes.

KitchenAid we featured with a freshest most abundant partner there is  … The Melbourne Market Authority – Yes as Melbourne sleeps the markets at Footscray are in full action!  Hundreds of growers and beautiful fresh produce – pallet after pallet.

The Melbourne Markets stand at the Good Food & Wine Show with KitchenAid appliances was a perfect marriage. Simply put combining the best with the best!

What’s in season? This is exactly what the stand is all about.  But of course the wonderful market fresh team are ‘walking enclopedias’ with all things fruit & veg:  Helpful hints, hints, hints, hints & for all things like purchase, storage, recipes and nutritional facts. Plus tastings – goodness, they were constant.  And what a delight to have the actual ‘growers’ right there answering special questions about good bugs & bad bugs and crop sustainability. It is all done very differently these days – thank goodness. For info on market tours – it is at 6am, but wow it is worth it – amazing busy, busy fun inspiring place to visit.

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Using what’s in – well it has to be cheaper, taste better and be better for you. The variety was huge but the main focus was on celery, melons, apples, mandarins, bananas, golden kiwi fruit, bok choy and stunning hydroponic tomatoes.

The stand ran like magic with one side featuring tasting of lashings of fresh fruit, creamy freshly made vegetable soups and crisp stir fries. On ‘my side’ well I was in foodie heaven cooking up a storm and enjoying the presentations from some wonderful Melbourne based Chefs & Authors & presenters.   The highly acclaimed line up featured Kate McGee, Pierrick Boyer, Grant Flack, Tony Rogaslky, Tami McAdam and yes me! What did I present two easy delicious recipes with help from the standmixer and a couple of my favourite attachments - Beetroot fettucine & A radish, apple and celery salad.

We whipped, creamed, beat, crumbed, chopped, blended, pulsed, kneaded and rolled our way through recipe after recipe.   The crowds were fabulous as over 30,000 ate, sipped, slurped, munched & nibbed away.  Good Food 2011 – I can’t wait.