INSIDE DAME ELISABETH’S GARDEN
November 05 2018 News
Premiering Thursday, November 8 at 8:30pm on Lifestyle Read the rest...
Maggie’s Kitchen Diary
Foodbank - Hunger in the Country is a big problem
November 05 2018 Food wise
Foodbank is Australia’s largest food relief organisation and every month they provide food and grocery relief to over 710,000 Aussies. Read the rest...
Maggie's food reflections from Europe Part 2
October 31 2018 Food wise
So many food experiences from our first day in Porto waiting for the rest of the group with a dish of clams simply served with the cooking juices, garlic and parsley; or sea bass in a salt casing cooked in a hot pan and flamed with great theatre. A seafood porridge; full of mussels, scamp and razor clams in a tomato broth with the juices again from cooking with fresh coriander, EVOO and stale bread and ‘making’ the porridge by the waiter stirring at the table. The first night of the trip we were bussed to Matosinhos, a town by the sea, and ate at Casa Serrao where the grilling of the fish was done on an outside charcoal barbecue; lines of these outside kitchens taking over the street; the smoke bellowing over the street long which was where the most perfect sardines caught that morning as whole fish with just EVOO were cooked; then the largest sea bream I had encountered; gutted and opened up to cook on the grill; the amazing caramelisation of the skin and the sides and cooked again to perfection. Such plenty on the table as we dissected the fish off the bone to begin with but then a few of us attacked the bones and the cheek and every bit of it so succulent I definitely ate more than I needed and the meal was nothing short of unbelievable yet so incredibly simple. Read the rest...
Maggie's food reflections from Europe Part 1
October 31 2018 Food wise
The last two months have been a whirlwind; I know you will have seen on Instagram a few photos I sent from Vienna; Isle of Skye and London. What I hadn’t mentioned up till now is how our time in London was upended only days before we arrived there by having our Air BnB booking cancelled without anything other than a memo to say they would return our money. It made London where I had so much to cover from a business sense in workshops; a trade show and investigating trends with the difficulty of finding a hotel at the last moment for 5 nights to fit in with all our plans certainly has made us want to know we would have security in the future should we rebook anything with Air BnB. Read the rest...
Good Food and Wine Show Brisbane
October 29 2018 News
This weekend Maggie graced the stage with her good friend Matt Moran at the Brisbane Good Food and Wine Show. Maggie showcased her Pavlova with Dried Apricots in Verjuice Syrup. Read the rest...
