Freestyle Happenings

Wine 101 at Freestyle Tout Emporium
Explore Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris. Wednesday April 21, 6.30pm for a 7pm start. $30 per person includes wine and canapés.
Phone 3262 3077, Bookings essential.

Book Club at Freestyle Tout West End

Join our bookclub to meet others who are passionate about food and books.
When: Wednesday May 5
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: West End
This month’s book is Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran, filled with mouthwatering recipes and enchanting details of life in Ireland. Book in for a 2-course dinner with recipes from the book and glass of wine for $30.
Bookings and prepayment essential 3255 3288
May we suggest Coaldrakes bookstore at Emporium or Avid Reader at West End.

Young and the Restless Nights
Pop in after work on a Monday night at Emporium or Tuesday night at West End with a girlfriend or 3 to share a pizza and salad over a glass of bubbles for $18 each. This is your night to catch up on the weekends goss.

This Month’s Exhibiting Artists
Photographers Henri van Noordenburg (top), Karen Milder (centre) and Anna Marcella (bottom) are exhibiting this month at Freestyle Tout West End as part of the Queensland Festival of Photography.






Simonne Solomon (below) is exhibiting at Freestyle Tout Emporium.


Meet photographer Henri van Noordenburg
Join Henri van Noordenburg on April 17 at 5pm for an artist talk at Freestyle Tout West End. RSVP 3255 3288.

Salad and Stiletto Lunch
Design your own salad and stilettos on Wednesday April 28 at West End. Salad lunch, glass of wine and petite desserts for $35.
Bookings and prepayment essential 3262 3077
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Kate French sculptures on show!
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Freestyle Escape

Welcome to Autumn at Freestyle Escape!
With all the rain we have had in recent weeks, Freestyle Escape is looking very lush and green. David our wonderful caretaker and I are frantically trying to reclaim the herb garden and orchard from the wilderness. It is great to see many of our fruit trees fruiting - cumquats, kaffir limes, lemons, oranges and pomelos, young berries are now in flower, passionfruit, and I am quite excited about the coffee trees! Let me tell you the tamarillo jam I made from the fruit from my last visit is devine! (Very popular with my girlfriends!) I am looking forward to using some of my own local fruit in my upcoming cooking classes! More news on that later!



Young Berries in flower



Passionfruit



The Orchard



Monsteria Delicious (Fruitsalad plant)



Monsteria Fruit



Magnolia in Flower



Magnolia



Longans



Coffee



Noosa Farmers Market


It is my mission to get everyone to buy local produce and be supporters of their local farmer markets. Why not go along to my favourite markets and sample some of the produce available?

Noosa Farmers Market at the Noosa Australian Football Club, 155 Weyba Road, Noosaville, every Sunday 7am to 12noon.
Jan Powers City Markets, Brisbane Square river end of the mall, every Wednesday at 9am to 6
Jan Powers Farmers Market, at the Powerhouse, 2nd & 4th Saturday of the month

Enjoy.......

Just Add Spice

Last week I went to the launch of Lyndey Milan and Ian Hemphill's (Herbie) latest cook book at Trio's in Noosaville www.trios-on-the-river.com . This book has a lot of great information on spices, some fantastic recipes and loads of informative tips on wine and wine matching. Its always great to see Lyndey as she is known for her fun, fast and fabulous approach www.lyndeymilan.com Ian Hemphill is one of Australia's foremost culinary spice experts www.herbies.com.au


The lunch consisted of yummy recipes from book. Loads of insight and fun was had by all. Trio's chef Geoff Cohen cooked the below from the book. Let me tell you all was devine.
Salt & Pepper Calamari
Baharat Spiced Salmon (book uses ocean jacket)
African Berbere Chicken Thighs
Lamb Neck with North African flavours
Couscous with cumin-spiced pumpkin & vegies
Sticky Fig & Dates in espresso syrup
Chilli cardamon chocolate truffles


Lyndey Milan, chef Geoff Cohen and Ian Hemphill


African Berbere Chicken Thighs


Salt and Pepper Calamari