Food Fossickers

Growing competition-worthy giant pumpkins is becoming a lucrative affair, if you can withstand the fickle nature of the hobby. If you can grow a vegetable garden, you have the skill to grow a prize-winning pumpkin. With the right preparation and strategy and a bit of good luck, next year you migh..

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Transforming chocolate into edible art is Sue Schrieber’s passion. A passion she has taken to another level with the opening of her own small business, Choclartiste. When she’s not tempering chocolate in her compact studio, Sue is a lab technician at La Trobe Bendigo’s School ..

Excitement is building in Trentham in the lead up to the annual Great Trentham Spudfest to be held on Saturday, May 18. Once again the spudlight will shine on Trentham with a festival full of fun, food and music. Quarry Street Reserve will be transformed into “Spud Hub” with hot potato..

Today’s mums probably don’t consider fluffy slippers and flannelette PJs appropriate or “cool” gifts on their special day anymore. So why not consider some less traditional ways to warm her heart, and feet. Start with an early morning walk (or run, if she’s up for it)..

The expanding foodie precinct in Bath Lane is about to welcome another newcomer, – a bakery with a difference. The New Freedom Gluten-Free Bakery is on track to open later this month after a major facelift to the former tile shop on the corner of Short Street and Bath Lane. It wil..

Late last month, Bendigo’s growing reputation as a foodie haven was given a boost with the opening of Cakewalk, a specialist cake shop offering custom designed and decorated cakes or cupcakes and hot and cold drinks. Excited owner Julie-Anne Valentine gave us an insight into the sweet life. ..

Autumn is the perfect time for a picnic and where better to enjoy an outdoor feast than in Bendigo’s beautiful Rosalind Park. To coincide with the park’s transition to it’s colorful best, the Bendigo Community Farmer’s Market committee is planning a picnic to celebrate the ..

Easter without hot cross buns is like Christmas without turkey. And these days you can practically have them with your left-over Christmas turkey as they appear on the supermarket shelves earlier every year. Not surprising then, that Australians consume about 70 million of them every Easter. ..

Few businesses can boast they have outgrown their premises in just 18 months, but Bendigo’s Brewhouse is the exception. The semi-industrial area of Eve Court was an unusual place for a coffee roasting business and cafe but when owner Corey Scobie opened the Brewhouse in early 2012, his previ..

I had the pleasure of a date night a couple of weekends ago…with our 11 year old daughter. As part of the awesome Summer in the Parks series, we headed over to the Outdoor Cinema screening of Life of Pi, but allowed ourselves time to indulge in some glorious food as well. We’d h..

Applying for a position at Bendigo Wholefoods could feel a bit like signing up for a circus act. The ability to juggle more than one piece of fruit, spin more than one plate, clean not lean and count beans is an advantage but not mandatory. Proprietor Darren Murphy looks for keen foodies to join..

The name Ciancio is synonomous with food in Bendigo. Good, Italian food. Three generations of Ciancios have been dishing it up to Bendigonians for more than 40 years. Pino Ciancio and his brother, Tony, came to Australia from Italy with their parents as young boys in the early 60s and moved to ..

Food lovers will tuck into some unique gastronomic events as part of Bendigo’s regional contribution to the 2013 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival on the weekend of March 15 and 16. On Saturday March 16, three of Bendigo’s spectacular heritage buildings will ask patrons ..

Bendigo and district will be treated to a weekend of fine wine and food prepared by the best local chefs and winemakers as part of this year’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. The 2013 festival theme returns to the source – earth – with a celebration of getting y..

Chicken breasts in posh ham was on the menu this week at Jamie’s Ministry of Food Mobile Kitchen. The kitchen is up and running, delivering cooking courses to Bendigo residents. The program is built on Jamie’s beliefs about cooking and the associated impact on healthy living...

Margaret Fulton has a lot to answer for – in the nicest possible way. She is credited with changing the way Australians eat and cook. The doyenne of Australian cooking published her first cookbook, The Margaret Fulton Cookbook, in 1968 and sold more than 1.5 million copies with a..

Elisha Jeffrey has always dreamed of owning her own coffee shop and has spent the best part of the past 15 years planning her cafe. She even completed primary teacher training as a backup, only in case the dream cafe took longer than anticipated. Her passion for food and 10 years worki..

Jamie’s Ministry of Food mobile kitchen is coming. It will be welcomed at a free community Day hosted by the Greater Bendigo council and Bendigo Community Health Services on Saturday, January 12 from 9am to 12pm in Bull Street, next to the Conservatory. Council Community Wellbeing..

Bendigo is gearing up for the arrival of Jamie’s Ministry of Food Mobile Kitchen which rolls into town on Friday, January 11. The kitchen will be located at the Conservatory carpark, Bull Street from January 11 to 17 before relocating to the Long Gully recreation reserve, Cunneen Street, Lon..