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Coles slashes fruit and vegetable prices

2012-01-31T19:26:00.000+10:30

Coles slashes fruit and vegetable prices

Adelaide Central Market Watch 23.1.12

2012-01-24T09:09:00.007+10:30

Australia Day means BBQs .
Many people will take Friday off work and enjoy a four day long weekend and this means, more than one BBQ, so the butchers will be busy this weekend in the Market. The market is closed Thursday but open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Meat And Poultry

Tony O'Connell's on the Grote Street end of the market has great Australia Day specials all weekend. Pork ribs $8.90 kg and a huge range of tempting sausages. Try lamb and fetta, beef with worcestershire sauce and cracked black pepper or herb and garlic sausages all $8.90kg. Barossa Fine Foods, S60, also has a BBQ special on this week. Beef BBQ $8.99kg, French Merguez $10.99kg and mild Italian style $10.99 kg. all 100% gluten free and contain no msg. Vegas Poultry, S62, has marinated honey and soy chicken trumpets ( single-bone wing) $14.99kg, tenderloin breast fillet $15.99kg and whole Greenslades free range chickens for $9.49kg.

Fruit and Veg

Con's, S52, has the firts new season Royal Gala apples from the Riverland for $3kg and great strawberries, three punnets for $5. Cactus, S6, has sweet sugar pineapples for $3.95 ea, salad mix is $2 for. 120gm packs, sultana grapes are $4.99kg and fresh red currant grapes are $6.99kg. House of Organics, S 34/35, has the older variety 'Donsworth' plums from Adelaide Hills, and Lenswood white peaches, both $9.99 kg. A must-try are the black genoa figs for $24.99 kg.

Gourmet

Gourmet-to-Go, S42, has a tasty range of healthy prepared foods to eat now or take home. Chickpea burgers $4.80 each, falafels $1.60 each, and gluten-free savoury pies are a meal on their own for $5.95 each. Vegetarian frittata is $4.50 per slice and yummy lemon meringue pies with a soft cloud of meringue on top $4.50 each.

Simon Bryant's new range of locally sourced grains are called 'Dirt(y)'. The grains come in 500 gm boxes and include Kangaroo Island red nugget lentils, KI red nipper lentils and Yorke Peninsula kabuki chickpeas. All $7 each at Taste of Marrakech.

Hello You

Marian and Robert Pitt

"So its been 63 years since I first came to the market. Time flies when one is having fun.

My dad use to take me there when I was a little girl and always bought me some fish lollies. When I was 17, I worked at Charles Moore, where the Police Courts are now.
Doing my shopping at the market after I finished work was always a joy. When Robert and I married and had our 4 children a treat for them on the school holidays was going to the Market and buying fish lollies.
We would meet up on a Friday nights with family and have our meal there and of course take the grandchildren to buy them fish lollies. Since we both retired, we visit the market on a Friday and have lunch in the food court.
We enjoy shopping at the market and over the years we have enjoyed saying hello to the people we buy our goods from. My special treat is allowing my self to buy something nice from the Providore to have with a cup of tea when we arrive home.

Adelaide Central Market Watch 17.1.12

2012-01-17T13:43:00.001+10:30

Its customers who are often not mentioned when talking about the iconic Adelaide Central Market, and after owning a shop in the market for the last 21 years, I certainly have met and become friends with many. So I thought I would begin a new section in Market Watch called 'Hello You' that introduces some of our customers.
Hello You
Meet twin sisters Joan McRae-Wood and Joy Pittman. The girls where born in Adelaide in 1929 and have been coming to the market since they were toddlers. Their Scottish parents shopped on Fridays and mainly came to buy fresh fish for Saturday night dinner. Whole Tommy Ruffs were on the menu every week. The most noticeable changes in the market for Joan and Joy are how 'up-market' the market has become and how so many interesting foods have been introduced from Europe and Asia.
No dummies to shopping after not missing a week in 20 years, organic food and a great cup of coffee are high on their list of priorities. The market is a place where they regularly meet with their family, including eight grandchildren who are now beginning their lives as market customers.
Fruit and Veg
Michael's, S53, has premium quality Australian garlic from Mildura for $2 each, avocados are three for $3, bananas $1.50kg, mangoes are $2 each and Riverland plums are $4kg. Central Fresh, S49, has terrific prices this week with strawberries $1 per punnet, seedless grapes $3.99kg, nectarines $2.79 kg, truss tomatoes $1.99 kg, bananas 99c kg, peaches are $2.99 kg and watermelon $1.49kg. Mario at Greensides, S56, has all his home grown plums and prunes for $2.99kg and his delicious tomatoes are $3.99kg.

Meat and Poultry
Pure Suffolk lamb is now back in season at Feast Fine Foods, S15. The label describes the lamb as the 'Best lamb you'll ever taste' and you know what, its true. Look for the lamb loin chops. They are the size of a small T-bone as they include the fillet on the chop. $23.99kg. Also this week, Feast have farmed rabbits from the Fleurieu also $23.99kg. Con's Fine Foods, S 18/19, has a fantastic selection of sliced hams and bacon. Full length bacon rashers are $7.95kg, double smoked ham is $15.50kg, Old Style ham is $13.50kg and red gum smoked ham is $21kg.

Gourmet
Jagger, S39 has the most incredible collection of olives and dips in Adelaide. A few to mention are Sicilian, Coriole Kalamata and verdale, mixed olives with lime and peppercorns, green olives with lemon, thyme and garlic, and parmesan stuffed olives. All are $27kg. Keep a lookout for pates made with emu, kangaroo or crococdile. All made here in South Australia and sell at $9.30 for 110gms.

Bread
Kate's Patisserie, S50
The Mylor Bakery is a family business with a simple philosophy: taking absolutely no shortcuts in a process that has been perfected over centuries we turn the simple loaf of bread into something a bit more special.
This is no nonsense bread, we don't have glitzy labels, funky slogans or glamorous names for our bread. We don't claim to be artisans, or bake in some secret exotic style.
The secret to our unique bread is long fermentation, gentle handling, and a state of the art electric oven. Try organic wholemeal $7.20, sprouted light rye $6.60, or seeded wholemeal $7.40

#Adelaide Central Market Watch January 6, 2012

2012-01-07T10:11:00.001+10:30

Fruit and Veg

Welcome to 2012 in the Adelaide Central Market and to the season return of the unusual flat peaches. They are called Saturn peaches and are a member of the white peach family. Also called doughnut peach, paraguayo peach, pan tao peach, saucer peach, belly-up peach, and UFO peach.

They taste fantastic, are very sweet and creamy and have a skin that has less fuzz and are easier to peel. Punch out the seed, fill with icecream and you have a heaven sent dessert.

Saturns are available at Coco's, S20/21 and cost $4.99 per punnet of 6. Also at Coco's look for the exotic rambutan $2.50 each, baby Paradise pears $12.95 kg, luscious raspberries $6.99 kg and the never seen before plumcots for $9.95 kg. Yes, plumcots. They are a cross between the apricot and plum genus , have a rose complexion and have the texture of apricot and the juice of a plum. Very yummy.

Thompsons, S27/28, have terrific new season seedless green grapes from the Ord region in WA for $6kg, mangoes are three for $5, Adelaide Hills cherries $10kg, Qld ginger $10 kg and snappy snow peas from Virginia for $12kg.

Aubergines, S57, have the hierloom 'Rouge de Marmande' tomatoes this week. These are the old French variety tomato with the original bumpy shape and outstanding flavour. They cost $4.99kg.

House of Organics, S34/35, has juicy passionfruit and sweet corns for $.99c each.

Meat and Poultry

Warm weather is forecast, and the word from Tony O'Connell is to enjoy cold cuts of meat. Corned silverside and pickled pork are both $7.99 kg and ox tongue is $6.99 kg. Check the Mettwurst Shop, S22, for best selling traditional garlic mettwurst $8 each, kabanas are three for $4 and kangaroo mettwursts are $5.50 each.

Vegas Poultry, S62 and @vegaspoultry62 on Twitter, have bake ready 'Gourmet Pillows' which are free-range chicken thigh fillets, filled and seasoned with garlic butter, parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper, tied and ready to roast. Four for $19.

Gourmet

Carousel Nut Bar, S76, has been owned and run by Jack and Nicki Farmakis sice 2001. The hot nut section is hard to escape as all the nuts are cooked in healthy rice bran oil, leaving only the real taste of roasted nuts. Macadamias are $39kg and cashews are $20 kg.Try their new garlic roasted almonds $3.50 for 160gms, turkish figs are $2.99 for 250gms, and pepita seeds are $6.95 for 500gms.

Special

Providore, S66 has a new gluten-free chocolate and walnut cake that is heaven. Rich dark chocolate ganache fills a chocolate walnut base and is irristable. The large size is $49 and will feed up to twenty people , the small size is $35 and by the slice is $4.50.

Christmas Adelaide Central Market Watch

2011-12-22T08:30:00.000+10:30

Fruit and Veg
With three days until Christmas, the Central Market is packed to the rafters with brilliant quality produce and artisan produced foods like never before.
Golden pineapples from Yeppoon are sensational and $4 each, whole watermelon $0.99kg, new season purple carrots are $3.99 bunch and crunchy Lebanese cucmbers are $5.99, all at House of Organics, S34/35. For the exotic tropical fruits and berries, Coco's, S20/21 has dragonfruit for $7.95kg, pomegranites are $5.99 kg, pomelos are $9.99kg and lychees are $25kg. Aubergines, S57, has beautiful cherries for $9.99kg and all the top quality stone fruits for $4.99kg.

Meat, poultry and seafood
Buy a Kangaroo Island goose ($19.99kg) at Vegas,S62. Barossa Fine Foods, S60, for boned and roasted ducks with morello cherry, fresh herb and bacon stuffing $20.99kg. Samtass Seafoods prawns are cooked and snap frozen, hours after being caught. Buy frozen and defrost in the chiller overnight for Christmas Day. Try the medium 10/15 size for $32.99kg.

Christmas Specials
Breadz'n'More, S43, has terrific plain ($1.90ea) and almond croissants (two for $7) cooked on the spot. Gourmet to Go, S42, has Abbotsford Country House Christmas puddings (1kg $43.95) and are made using Barossa brandy and Angaston fruits to a Scottish recipe. Smelly Cheese, S44, has this week only , the Woodside Noel goat cheese for $4.99 each, and Say Cheese, S46 has whole rounds of white-mould, double cream, White Pearl for $35 each.
Marino Fine Foods on Gouger St, has box-set gift hampers containing olive oil, balsamic vinegar , chilli paste and tapenade $59.95, Lucia's Fine Foods has ready to serve polenta by Moretti. Slice and panfry and the polenta stays moist with a smooth texture. $6pack.
Providore, S66, for the best range in handmade chocolates and cakes. Try the new gluten-free, dark chocolate and walnut cake $4.50 per slice or $49 whole. Whole will serve 12-20 people.

Merry Christmas from all the Traders at the Market and its sign-off time from me in this final Advertiser Market Watch.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #42

2011-12-14T09:12:00.000+10:30

Fruit and Veg

Be prepared for a very busy market until Christmas. Consider shopping earlier in the week to ensure your choice of quality and varieties. Banana prices have continued to go down and are $1.50kg week at Michael's, S53. Also in stock are seedless grapes for $8kg, Australian garlic for $2.50 each, mangoes are three for $5 and strawberry punnets are two for $4. Fantastic cos lettuce ($2.99) from an uncertified organic garden in Ashton Hills are now available at House of Organics, S34/35. Also, new season Riverland 'Black Genoa' figs are $25kg and local 'Sunburst' cherries are $19.99kg. Greensides, S56, has apricots, nectarines, local tomatoes and eggplants all at $3.99kg, while peaches are $2.99kg and cherries are $6.99 kg. Coco's, S20/21 has punnets of organic 'Silvanberries' from Cudlee Creek for $7 each, seedless watermelon is $1.95kg and punnets of fresh gooseberries for $6.95kg.

Meat and Poultry

All the vendors are geared up for Christmas and hams and turkeys are a priority. Feast Fine Foods, S15, has five types of hams to choose from. Consider the Saskia Beer, Black Pig Ham, on the bone for $38.50 kg or the Heritage Berkshire ham for $18.99 kg. O'Connell's Butcher on Gouger St has the gammon hams ($8kg) to cook at home in the webber with hickory.

Christmas Gourmet

Sevenhill, S75, is bulging at the seams with traditional season specialities from across Europe. A must-buy are the Dutch Detteer chocolate alphabet letters($4.50). Follow the tradition by attaching them to gifts under the Christmas tree to identify the recipient. Dough, S45, is now making a large rye, sour-dough baguette, loaded up with caramelized red onions and caraway seeds for $6.

Special

Lucia's Fine Foods Deluxe Hamper is a true foodie gift. Aged balsamic vinegar, white truffle oil, lemon infused linguini, brined yellowfin tuna belly, Italian lozenges and nougat, all wrapped up with ribbons and bows. $290 each.

#Adelaide Central Market Tour Feedback

2011-12-13T18:27:00.000+10:30

Hi Mark

Just a quick note to Thank you for the wonderful tour of the Market on Friday last week. Our group of 10 travel agents from Melbourne are still raving about it.

I personally learnt a lot, and I am very often in the markets myself being a local.

I thought you might like to read some of the comments we got on our feedback forms: FYI - many also commented that it was great value for money!

“Taste Testing was spectacular – Very Good and I will be adding this to everyone’s holiday”

“Simply outstanding. Mark is an incredible asset to Adelaide. I think his tour should be compulsory to anyone going to Adelaide. I would force this on any client going to Adelaide! It simply has to be done on day one of any trip to Adelaide. There is something very unique about the Adelaide Market and it’s not ‘just another market’ it is special and people need to see it!”

“The Market was enough to make me want to move to Adelaide. You had me at ‘cheese’....”

“Thanks Mark for the great tour around the market. Cant wait to go back.”

“Adelaide Central markets tour was fantastic. From something i thought might be boring, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it was definitely a highlight of my trip. Mark was fantastic knew his way around the market so well and knowledge of Adelaide was fantastic.”

Sunlover Holidays

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #41

2011-12-08T06:45:00.001+10:30

Fruit and Veg

At Central Fresh, S49, bananas are at the lowest price this year and now selling for $1.99 kg. Mangoes are three for $5, peaches are $2.99, plums $3.99 and strawberries are thre punnets for $5. Sweet juicy passionfruit are three for $2 at McMahons, S47. Cherry tomatoes are $5 for three punnets, asparagus is $2.99 per bunch, beans are in 500 gm bags for $2 and blueberries are $3.99 per punnet. At Michael's, S53, capsicums, Lebanese cucumbers and the 'Earli- Queen' plums are all $4kg. Cactus, S6, has the best rockmelon variety, the 'Hot-Shot' for $2.99kg, watermelon is $2.49kg, fresh redcurrants are $7.50 per punnet and raspberries are $7.95 per punnet.

Meat and Seafood
Samtass SA cooked prawns are $14.99 kg, XL Aussie green prawn meat is $29.99kg, cooked SA rock lobsters are $89.99 kg and the Florida lobsters are $49.99kg. A whole side of sliced smoked salmon is around 1kg for $39.99kg. Pork is best bought on the bone and is a great price of $5.99 kg this week at O'Connells. Perfect to buy now and freeze for Christmas. If you havent made puddings yet, Tony has fresh suet for $3kg,

Remember to get your Christmas orders in for all your poultry, hams and puddings etc at your favourite stalls to secure your Christmas buys.

Christmas Gourmet
The traditional suet puddings, wrapped in cloth at Providore, S66, need to be simmered in near boiling water for an hour before serving. They are in five different sizes that can feed two to twenty people. Bakers Tray, S25, has Xmas tree shaped mud cakes for $25 and ornate gingerbread houses for $45.

Special
Look for the new Karvelli range of breads and danish at Kate's Patisserie, S50. The range includes wild sourdough fig and walnut loaf($7.90), olive, fetta and rosemary pide ($3.50), fig or raspberry danish and my favourite, the sourdough danish filled with frangipani cream ($3.50)

# Adelaide Central Market Watch #40

2011-11-30T08:29:00.000+10:30

Fruit and Veg

All the exotic tropical fruits are on display at Coco's, S20. Rambutan are $3 per 100gms, gooseberries $5.95 per punnet, lychees $25kg and the sweet and juicy karakaberries are $5.95 per punnet. Michael's, S53 has terrific mangoes three for $5, bananas are down to $3kg and yellow peaches are $5 kg. Adelaide Hills cherries might be in demand with some crops being rain affected. House of Organics, S34/35 has terrific yellow nectarines for $7.99kg and candy-striped beetroot for $3.95 per bunch. Keep an eye out this week for the purple Kestral potatoes available at several stalls or taste them cooked as fritters at the stage area on Thursday1st at 11am -2pm

Meat and Poultry

Barossa Fine Foods, S60, won the 2011 National Award for 'Best Ham on-the-bone.' and is selling hams for $11.99 kg. Barossa's order form is a list of over 50 items, includes cooking instructions, prices and storage tips. Order forms must be in by Dec13.

Vegas, S62, has certified organic, chicken breast fillet for $22.99kg, thigh fillet for $21.99kg, drumsticks are $4.59kg and stir-fry is $17.99 kg. Feast@the Market, S15, celebrates Saint Andrews day with the famous 'Chieftains' Scottish haggis. The largest puddings are just over 2kg and cost approximately $60. They also have tubs of duck fat for $8 and farmed rabbits from the Fleurieu for $23.99kg.

Christmas Gourmet

Jagger, S38, has the complete Baylies range of savoury ($6.20), sweet ($6.20) and chocolate ($7.20) tart shells in packs of 12. Perfect for the party season. Sevenhill, S75, has traditional Stollen cakes for $8.95, peperoten biscuits $5.50 per pack and blocks of Wawel dark chocolate 70% and sugar-free milk chocolate, two for $5.

Special

Petit Sapin is a soft and creamy, white mould cheese made in the Franche-Comte region of France. The cheese is bound by a strip of spruce bark and comes in the distinctive round wooden box. Try baking the cheese 175deg for 10 mins. $19.95 at Smelly Cheese, S44

#Adelaide Central Market Watch # 39

2011-11-24T18:31:00.000+10:30

Fruit and veg

Thompsons, S26/27 has great summer prices as the festive seasons approaches. Cherries are $12 kg, mangoes are three for $5, Adelaide hills packham pears $1.50 kg, large hass avocadoes are $1 each, large eggplants s $5 kg, asparagus is $2 per bunch and whole heads of celery are $2.80 each. Great buys are also at Pick-me-Fresh, S30/31, with bananas $4.99 kg, broccoli and tomatoes $1.99 kg and large leeks $2.99 per bunch. Central Fresh, S49, has sweet peacharines for $2.99 kg, apricots and capsicums both $3.99 kg, watermelon is $2.49 kg and granny smith apples are a bargain for $1 kg. House of Organics, S34/35 has the last blood oranges of the season for $4.99kg.

Meat and Poultry

Tony O'Connell at GR47/49, is smoking SA hams every day until Christmas. The succulent hams are double or tripled smoked using redgum or beechwood chips and half-legs are $20 each. Look for the free recipe cards on storing, glazing and how to carve your ham. Poultry Cuisine, S51, has fresh chicken marylands at 2kg for $4.50, skinless breast for $6.99kg, plus livers, hearts and giblets for $4.69 kg. Marino Meat Store, GO52/54, has veal spirals rolled with pancetta, venison mince , pistachios and apricots that are under $2 each.

Christmas Specials

Lucia's Fine Foods, WR3, has the traditional Christmas chocolate Cantuccini and the candied orange Cavalucci biscuits from Sienna for $20.99 kg. the TBar, GO44, has a Christmas chai tea made with cloves, black tea and citrus peel and is $11.30 for 100gm pack. 'The Ulimate Indulgence' gift pack from Charlesworth, S58, is jam packed with fruits, nuts and lollies, in fact 63 bags and 27 different products and costs $249.90. Doyley's, S41 is baking baby mince pies every day for $2.20 each

# Adelaide Central Market Watch #38

2011-11-16T10:52:00.000+10:30

Fruit and Veg

The wild asparagus at Stall 69 is incredibly good. Grown on the tributaries of the Murray River, the season is short lived so buy it now. The apsaragus is sold by weight for $20 kg. Also check out their fresh salad onions on the stem for $3.99 bunch, local garlic for $2.50 per 100gms and ripe custard apples for $6.99 kg. 500gm bags of certified organic almonds in the shell from Willunga are $7.50, fresh tumeric is $25 kg and Katham Springs bio-dynamic eggs from Kangaroo Island are $7.50 per doz for the 50 gm size. All at Central Organics, S72. Go to McMahons ,S47, for tomatoes this week. Look for 'Stefan's Choice' for $3.99 kg and punnets of the baby cherry tomatoes are two for $5. Michael's, S53 has great prices on stone fruit. White and yellow nectarines and apricots are all $5 kg, mangoes are 3 for $5, Nth Qld bananas are also $5 kg. SA grown strawberries are $3 for 500 gm punnets.

Meat and poultry

As Christmas decorations pop up, so do the gourmet goodies for the season.

Go to Barossa Fine Foods, S60 to buy their duck terrine for $22.99 kg, truffled pate is $7.50 per block and the real McCoy SA made fritz is $9.99 kg. Feast@the Market, S15, has the latest Saskia Beer treat. Saskia is making traditional English pork terrines encased in pastry and tasting of a hint of juniper, thyme and citrus peel. The 3kg terrines will feed an army and cost $99 each.

Special

Franjo at Zedz, S2, has invented a superb summer breakfast that can be eaten anytime. The granola includes oats, pepitas, sesame seeds, goji berries, sultannas and cinnamon and is baked until crunchy in maple syrup and served with thick Greek yoghurt, fresh berries and sprigs of fresh mint. $9.90. Look for his jars of marmalade and caramelised onion jams for $6 each.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch # 37

2011-11-09T09:43:00.001+10:30

Fruit and Veg

First came the mangoes; now apricots, peaches, nectarines and cherries have arrived. Prices are good and quality is perfect. Fred McMahon's, S12, has the whole range of fancy lettuces, two for $4 and punnets of Il Bello Rosso baby tomatoes from Virginia for $4.95. Con's, S52, has big juicy lemons at five for $2, brocolli is $2.50 kg, capsicums are $5 kg and tomatoes $3 kg. Local apricots and nectarines and QLD bananas are $6.99 kg, sweet sweet strawberries two punnets for $5, mangoes two for $5 and four avocados for $2 all from Aubergines, S57. House of Organics, S34/35, has the trevisio lettuce for $3.49 each, Adelaide Hills cherries for $24.99 and organic swedes and turnips for $3.99 kg. For a great range of Asian vegies, visit Lien Heng, SWR7, fresh galangal is $30kg, bunches of lemongrass are $1.50 each and the green and yellow spotted spaghetti melons are $5 kg.

Seafood and Meat

The Freezer sale is on at Samtass. Stock up for Xmas with 1kg bags of crumbed uncooked prawn cutlets ( 1kg $16.99 or 4kg for $50 ). Check out the salmon roast roulades for $19.99 kg. Freeze your own raw SA king prawns for $11.99 kg. Tony O'Connell's Butcher has lamb backstrap for $22.99kg and red gum smoked chickens for $7 each.

Special

House of Health, S73, has a nut grinding machine that makes the perfect pastes. Both peanuts and almonds are roasted and ground into chunky or smooth paste. No salt, no sugar; only nuts. Peanut paste is $8.50 kg and almond paste is $6.99 for 230gm jars.

Jagger Fine Foods, S38, has the new range of Pendleton dressings made on the Limestone Coast. Chardonnay vinegar is $11.20, blood orange olive oil is $16.40 and mixed together as a dressing is $10.80. All in 250 ml bottles.

'Regional and Seasonal' at the Adelaide Central Market

2011-11-02T17:47:00.000+10:30

'Regional and Seasonal' at the Adelaide Central Market

Food SA is excited to pilot a new program for producers, traders and consumers to connect with the seasonal produce grown and manufactured in SA by our members with cooking demonstrations and classes at the Adelaide Central Market.

Celebrate seafood with Simon Bryant

Join Simon Bryant and learn new ideas on cooking with sustainable seafood for Christmas. Watch the class and then taste all of the wonderful flavours over a delicious lunch with other participants. Copies of recipes including details of products and where to buy them at the Adelaide Central Market will be provided.

WHERE: Upstairs Kitchen, Adelaide Central Market

WHEN: Saturday 19 November 2011 at 11.30am to 2pm

COST: $130 incl GST

BOOK: http://foodsasimonbryant.eventbrite.com

FLYER: Celebrate seafood with Simon Bryant (pdf,160kb)

The Gouger Street Stage at the Adelaide Central Markets will also come alive on Friday 18 November from 11am to 2pm with a cooking demonstration of seafood paella, free tastings and local seafood products showcased by chef Nick Finn of The Highway.

#Adelaide CentralMarket Watch #36

2011-11-02T07:56:00.000+10:30

Fruit and Veg

At last, local garlic is back. Michael's, S53, has fresh and spicy garlics heads from Robinvale for $2.50 each. Look for the purple-cream skin and try roasting them whole. Con's, S52 has great deals on mangoes, three for $5, 3kg bags of navel oranges are $4, fresh local asparagus bunches $2 each and crunchy broccoli is $2kg. Mandarins are still a great price for $3 kg, whole cauliflower and whole cabbages $1.50 each, packham pears and granny smith apples both $2kg at Thompsons, S26/27.

Meat

The range of local game at Wild Oz, S55, is vast. Fresh goat fillet is $34.99, goat leg roasts are $16.99kg and rabbits from the wild are $13.99kg. Feast Fine Foods, S15, winner of the 2011 Sausage King Awards, has its award winning sausages in store. Chicken-thigh with chilli and lime and the spicy chorizo are both $13.99 kg.

Sevenhill, S75, is introducing the San Jose Smallgoods range to tempt lovers of authentic Italian, Spanish and Portuguese smallgoods. For starters try San Jose prosciutto $49kg and Spanish style- smoked and aged chorizo $35 kg.

Gourmet

Chocolate and macacdamia nut dip (delicious with strawberries and in tart shells) is $30kg at Jaggers, S38. Toast up the Irish Brac fruit loaf from Dough, S45. The sour dough bread is made with barley, malt, molasses, cranberries, raisins, sultanas, currants and cinnamon. It's a real hint of Christmas. $8.50 each.

Special (non-edible)

Paul Bulley's family opened the Photoco Camera House, WR5, in 1967. The store is now famous in photography circles for its window display of retro camera equipment and trades 2nd hand equipment around the world. Monday's are sale day at the $4.99 bargain table.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch # 34

2011-10-20T18:28:00.000+10:30

Fruit and Veg

Beloro is new fruit that is bursting with juice and flavour. Inside the bright yellow skin is the rockmelon colour and body we know, but the flavour is cocktail of honey dew and rockmelon. Beloro are $4 each at Michael's, S53. Also new, the YaYa 'Great Wall' pears from China, at Coco's, S20 ,for $4.95 each. YaYa's have the crunch, colour and sweetness of a nashi pear but are larger and are $4.95 kg. Coco's is always great for fresh berries, this week punnets of raspberries are $9.99 ea and Mulberries are $6.99 per punnet. Visit Rom at Bill.B's, S37 for fresh Tasmanian walnuts in the shell $9.99kg, khol rabi are $2.50 each, bunches of purple carrots $3 each and the punnets of 'sweet-bite' cherry tomatoes for $2.50 are grown by Rom himself. Aubergines, S57, avocados are four for $2 and rhubarb stems $9.99kg. Ask Arthur at Aubergines about the fruit salad platters they make to take home or to the office. Ripe, S61, has the giant round pumpkins for Halloween for $3.99 kg.

Meat and Poultry

Go to Vegas Poultry, S62, for Thai pandan, which are marinated chicken thigh fillets wrapped in fresh pandan leaves. Not too spicy and $12.50kg. Barossa Fine Foods, S60, Octoberfest specials are the pork, parsley and lemon 'weisswurst' sausages, the smoked pork and veal 'bockwurst' sausages, both $12.99 kg.

Gourmet

Be quick at lunchtime for the fresh salad bar at Big Table, S. Two great choices are quinoa with roasted vegies, tomato pesto and parmesan or the bean mix salad of soya beans, broad beans, fresh peas, Danish fetta with mustard lemon juice dressing. All salads are $6.90 for a lunch-sized tub.

Special

Leo's Cheesebar, S28/29, is making clever 'Tasting Boxes' that are ready to go. Each $12 box contains a selection of three cheeses and a fruit paste. Look for the box with Adelaide Blue, Tasmanian Brie and English Vintage Cheddar.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch # 33

2011-10-12T16:14:00.000+10:30

Fruit and Veg

With mangoes flooding in, choose the larger fruit for sweeter and juicier flesh. House of Organics, S34/35 has freshly picked zuchini flowers for $1 each. So easy to cook and are delicious stuffed with ricotta, parmesan and herbs and then crumbed and pan fried. Try the thinner violet Roman artichokes $2.50 each. Great in spaghetti dishes, cream sauces or grilled and marinated in olive oil. Also the first decent broadbeans are in from Adelaide Plains for $3.99 kg. Call in on Jason at Central Fresh, S49, for terrific prices this week. Strawberries are 3 punnets for $4, bananas $6.99kg, kiwi fruit are five for $2, mangoes $1.99 each and broccoli is $1.99kg.

Meat and Poultry

James has amazing prices on grain-fed, hormone-free chicken at Poultry Cuisine, S51. Skinless breast is $6.99kg and wings are 2kg for $4.90. Tony O'Connells on Grote Street end of the market has lean beef mince $9kg, pork shoulder mince $7kg, lamb mince $11.90kg and chicken leg mince for $8.50 kg. All the minces are low-fat-zero-waste and good on a tight budget.

Gourmet

Breadz-n-More, S43, makes home-cooked lasagnas right at the stall. Fiori, uses homemade tomato sauce and traditional Italian fillings. Family trays feed 6-8 people, are made using chicken, beef, or spinach and ricotta and cost $23.50 each. Check out the tuna mornay or chunky steak and potatoe pie plates at Bakers Tray, S25, starts at $11 each.

Special

Caryl Cameron started making fairy floss at the Central Market about 40 years ago. Caryl's, daughter Yvonne will be at Blackeby's Old Lolly Shop, S33, this week keeping the pink sugar spinning family tradition alive. Yvonne will swirl the spun sugar onto a stick for you or take some home in a bag for $3.50.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #33

2011-10-05T22:35:00.001+10:30

Fruit and Veg

As the winter fades, we all look forward to the return of summer fruit. The spring citrus display is a blaze of colour at House of Organics, S34/35. Tangelos, ruby and regular grapefruit are all $4.99 kg and the sweet little Afourer mandarins are $6.99 kg. Try the Asian TPP1 mango instead of the more common R2E2 at Coco's. The seed is smaller, it has more flesh and is very sweet. $4.99. The big green plantain banana, often called potatoes of the Caribbean, are one of the most diverse fruits in Latin American cuisines. Fry bake or grill like a potato $14.95 kg and the first local strawberries from Uraidla are two punnets for $5 at Coco's, S52.

Meat and Seafood

Try Mayura wagyu beef from Feast Fine Foods, S15. Mayura Station was established in 1845 is awarded nationally for the wagyu. The scotch fillet has a score fat of 8+ and is $180 kg. Samtass Seafood on Gouger St is continuing the offer on buy any one kg of fish fillets and recieve one free kg of crumbed tommy ruffs. Smokey Bay oysters are delicious and well priced at $10.50 doz.

Gourmet Treats

Andrew from Lucia's Fine Foods, WR3, says cooking trends are on the move and South American is where its at. Kick off with a jar of whole chilpotles. Great in salsas, and adds a big smokey flavour to braised meat dishes. $7.90 200gms.

Go to Lien Heng, WR7, for fresh Banh Pho Tuoi noodles for $2.80 kg and the yellow Hokkien , Taing's Noodles $1.50 for 500 gms. Pre rolled cocktail springrolls made from chicken, pork or vegetables are in packs of eighteen rolls for $5.

Special

Himalayan single origin coffee beans have distinctive chocolate overtones when dark roasted. Grind, S14, have a limited supply of only three sacks of Nepal Terai beans. Grind roasts the beans and the smooth chocolate character has a hint of cardamom. $13 for 250 gms.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #32

2011-09-28T19:01:00.000+09:30

Fruit and Veg
Mango madness is on the way with quality on the up and prices on the way down, while strawberries remain at very low prices this week. Mandarines are still sweet and juicy at $3.99 kg, bananas are $8kg, rockmelons are great now and $3 each, and cripsy green beans $2 for 500gms at Michaels, S53. Tomatoes are also getting better with the warmer days. Try Thompson's, S26/27, glasshouse tomatoes from Virginia are $3.50 kg, strawberries 2 punnets for $3.50, aparagus $2 per bunch and carrots $1.60kg. Con's, S52, has strawberries 3 punnets for $5, nashi pears $4kg and broccoli for $2.50kg. Look for the blue wax-tipped bananas at McMahons, S47/48, $9.99kg and Paringa mandarines 2kg for $5. Dutch cream or royal blue potatoes from House of Organics, S34/35, are perfect roasting spuds, both $3.99 kg.

Meat and seafood.

Visit Marino's on Gouger Street for Pollo Antonio, a deboned chicken rolled and filled with prosciutto cotto and mozarella. $17.50kg. Samtass, also on Gouger St, this week has large SA green prawns at a reduced cost of $13.99 kg due to slight damage. Tony O'Connell suggest start thinking about Xmas. Pork is an excellent price now at $6 kg, so buy, and freeze. His trick is to freeze in a plastic bag, then wrapped in newspaper. This week try veal liver $3 kg, lambs fry $2 each and fresh tripe $6.70 kg.

Great meals of the market

For breakfast at Big Table, S39/40, go the homemade baked beans on fat toast $11.50, or poached eggs with asparagus and hollandaise sauce on toasted turkisg bread $14.50.

Sun Mi, S1, terriaki beef or chicken cold rolls $4 each make a great lunch.

Gourmet

Corner Deli, S71, has imported pickled and sliced green Jalapenos $2.99 for 350 gms. Smelly Cheese, S44, has a new French cheese. Saint Sauveur, made from sheeps milk and decorated with edible charcoal and paprika is stunning. $35 each.

Special

TBar on Gouger Street has a special French Earl Grey for tea lovers. Called Vani-T, this earl grey has the distinctive bergamot flavour , hinted with marigold and rose petals. $7.10 for 50 gms

中央市场巡礼之美食飨宴 Inbound Chinese Visitor Program 22.9.11

2011-09-21T21:34:00.000+09:30

中央市场巡礼之美食飨宴

Chef’s Media, Adelaide Central Market Tour

名厨/中央市场达人 – Mark Gleeson

名厨Mark Gleeson 曾经澳洲东岸及阿德莱得经营顶级餐厅数十年。来到阿德莱得後因爱上南澳最大的生鲜蔬

果、鱼肉市场 ‐ 中央市场。因此在中央市场内经营一家家喻户晓的甜品店铺。由於对中央市场的爱好及熟

稔，Mark 因此蠃得中央市场达人的称号。Mark 同时也热爱南澳州的美酒美食，近几年来非常热心且积极地

投入南澳州美食旅游的推广。想要来一次中央市场巡礼之美食飨宴，除了Mark 之外绝不找二人选。

Hot Dog Fisheries Abalone

南澳生鲜鲍鱼专家 – Chris Rohan

来自於南澳当地的Hot Dog Fisheries，所捕捞养殖的绿唇、黑边鲍鱼是来自於纯净不受污染的南大洋。其顶

级生鲜鲍鱼食材除提供澳洲当地高级中国餐厅使用外，亦提供出口到香港、日本、新加坡等国。

Feast! Fine Foods

澳洲高级生鲜肉品供应商 – Richard Gunner

Feast! Fine Foods 所提供的高级生鲜肉品，是来自为於南澳自家畜牧农场。其农场专为澳洲境内5 星级的餐厅

提供高级肉品。其中，亦包括世界知名的顶级日本米泽牛种Wagyu Beef，其肉质油脂丰富且分布均匀，口感

软嫩有弹性、营养丰富。

Ferguson Australia

澳洲高级生猛海鲜供应商 – Lisa Cooper

来自南澳Ferguson Australia 所提供的生猛海鲜皆来自於水质纯净的南大洋。为澳洲各高级餐厅提供的新鲜的

鱼、虾、蟹等海鲜食材。其最为知名的海鲜食材亦包括南大洋岩龙虾及帝王蟹。

Prosperitas – Premium South Australian Wines

南澳高级葡萄酒专家 – Frank Turtur

地处世界上最好的葡萄酒出产区域之一，

南澳大利亚的麦克拉伦峡谷。荣胜酒业是一个家族经营的葡萄酒酒庄，专长于西拉子葡萄酒的酿造。酒庄已

经有上百年的历史。

Coffin Bay Oysters

澳洲顶级科芬湾生蚝

澳洲最为顶级的生蚝产地之一科芬湾位於南澳州的艾尔半岛。科芬湾蚝生长在冰莹纯净的南大洋海水里，颗

颗生蚝肥厚结实、肉质新鲜甜美。美食老饕来到南澳州，一定不会错过这来自海洋的礼物。

美食飨宴菜单 Menu

Blanc Bistro and Grill

南澳海鲜料理达人 – Norman Thanakamonnun

Blanc Bistro and Grill 餐厅在南澳州连续好几年获得最佳海鲜餐厅的殊荣，Norman Thanakamonnun 以亚洲的背

景融合创新的料理烹调技术，加上南澳州新鲜的食材。Norman 名厨的声誉早已传遍南澳州。

以下菜单烹饪将由南澳海鲜料理达人 – Norman 和中央市场达人 – Mark 共同执掌

The following menu will be prepared by Norman of Blanc Bistro & Grill and Mark of Central Market Tour.

Starters 前菜

高级新鲜生蚝

Fresh natural oysters

柠檬胡椒鲍鱼

Simply Grilled abablone with lemon and pepper

生鲜椒盐泥蟹

Live mudcrab salt and pepper style

Main meal 五道式主菜

生烤鲜蚝裹烟熏鲑鱼

Oyster Royale, freshly crumbed with smoked salmon, hollandaise and lightly grilled

绿唇鲍鱼烧烤

Seared wild green lip abalone with lime capers and butter

南澳高级大明虾

SA king prawn with garlic, olive oil and Italian parsley

生煎黄金鲷搭配土豆泥球及黑松露酱

Pan fried gold band snapper, potato dumpling, leek and black truffle cream

炭烤和牛及龙虾尾搭配鲜蔬

Char grilled wagyu beef with Ferguson lobster tail, baby vegetable, horseradish aioli, saffron rice, chorizo

and lobster oil.

以上餐食将提供米饭搭配

Rice served in meal

中国茶

Jasmine tea

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #30

2011-09-15T19:29:00.001+09:30

Fruit and Veg

Mango signals the change in seasons for produce in the Market. Use the riper mangoes for curries, jams and lassi and the greener ones for chutney, pickles or salads with a chilli and soy dressing. Michael's, S53, has great quality mangoes for $2 each and with more on the way the prices can only get better. Also at Michael's, large Hass avocados are three for $3 and full heads of celery $2 each. Coco's, S20/21, green mangoes and green papaya are $10kg, try adding fresh lotus root $12.95kg to your mango salad. Blood oranges are coming to season end. Look for smaller fruit with nice red skins. $4.99 kg at House of Organics, S34/35. Pick-me-Fresh, S31, has beautiful baby cherry tomatoes from Waterloo Corner, $2.99 punnet, navel oranges 99c kg and a wide range of fancy lettuce for $1.80 each.

Meat and Seafood

Barossa Fine Foods keeps winning awards. The latest award is for their Cambridge chipolatas, $9.99 kg. They are the perfect breakfast sausage or wrap in bacon to make 'pigs-in-blankets'.

Ricardo Marino from Marino Meat Store, GO52/54, has perfected his new pure pork 'orange and fennel seed' sausages, $13.50 kg.

Samtass, right next door has, whole cooked size XL prawns for $19.99kg and the ultimate marinara mix that includes prawns, mussels, squid, scallops, salmon fillet and tuna. $18.99 kg

Gourmet

More Mangoes at House of Health, S73/74. These ones are certified organic, sulphor-free, dried mango slices for $3.99 per 100gms, plus dark chocolate coated goji berries to make being healthy easier. $4.99 per 150 gms.

New at Lucia's Fine Foods, WR3, is the Whisk&Pin range of handmade jams, including apple and fig, pear and blackberry and ruby red grapefruit marmalade, all $10.90 per jar.

Jagger Fine Foods, S38, has the famous SA brined caper leaves from Kolophon $14 per jar and the capers $11.20 for 70gm jars. The Yoghurt Shop, S67, has a brilliant promotion to win half a years supply of your favourite flavour. Just like and follow on social medias.

Special

Fig and fennel seed bread, toasted with unsalted butter should be on your bucket list. This sour-dough bread is handmade with rye and wholemeal flours, dried figs and a subtle sprinkling of fennel seeds. Magic with cheese too. $7.95 each at Dough, S45.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #29

2011-09-08T17:56:00.001+09:30

Oz Harvest rescues surplus food from businesses and redistributes to charitable agencies who are feeding people in need. With thanks to partner Rotary Adelaide West, Oz Harvest is now rescueing food in the Central Market. The first four Saturday rescues have seen 600kgs of surplus foods collected from 20 different market stalls. This is the equivalnent of 1980 meals for people in need and saves 1200kg CO2eq greenhouse gases.

Market Watch congratulates participating SA food businesses, including Central Market, Barossa Fine Foods at Fine Foods 2011 Australia, Trade Event held in Sydney this week.

Fruit and Veg

Strawberries continue to taste better and get cheaper in the market. Punnet prices vary, with an average of $2 each.

Ripe, S69, strawberry punnets, mangoes and spinach bunches all $2.50 each. Coco's has garlic chives flowers $2.50 per bunch, yellow butter beans $14.95 kg and celeriac $4.99 each. MCMahons, S47, chinese cabbages $2.99 each, rockmelons and Caro Caro oranges all for $3.99 kg.

Meat and Poultry

Feast Fine Foods, S15, thick-cut 500gm T-bones are $26.99 kg or treat yourself with whole Waechter ducks for $19.99kg. Try whole certified organic chickens from Vegas, S62, for $14.99kg and gluten free, free-range chicken fillet sausages $15.99kg. Wild Oz, S55, has pork spare ribs from wild stock sourced near Wilcannia. 2kg packs for $12. Tony O'Connell has those amazing rolled lamb racks with herbs, garlic, extra lamb mince and tied with fresh rosemary stalks. Seal, roast and serve for $17.99kg.

Gourmet

Sevenhill Fine Foods, S75, has terrific prices this week on European mayos and mustard. Dijonnaise whole-grain mustard 335gm is $2, and Hellman’s whole egg mayo 400gm for $4.95. Bet you can't resist the orange-zest, sugar-coated ‘Pączki’ jam donut $1.70 each.

Taldy-Kurghan, S3, named after an abolished Kazakhstan region, is owned and operated by Beijing couple Theo and Waulice.... The cuisine is simple and fulfilling. Try 'Bigos', the hunter’s stew, made with lean pork, mashed potato and cabbage for $8.50 or the signature 'piroshki' $3 each.

Special

Aphrodite Halloumi made from goat and ewes milk is sensational. Hand-made in Cyprus, the cheese is a delicate blend of flavours that are enhanced by a quick pan-fry, $24kg. Try comparing Tasmanian, Pyengana cloth-bound cheddar, $59kg and Cabot's, cloth-bound cheddar from USA, $79kg, for tang and bite. All from Peita, owner of Leo's Cheese, S28&29

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #28

2011-08-31T08:59:00.000+09:30

Fruit and Veg

Apples are the hot topic in the SA for growers, retailers and customers. The quality, range and prices of local apples in the market are excellent. Galas, granny smiths, red delicious, pink ladys, golden delicious and fuji are all $3 kg at Michael's, S53. Seasons are changing when mangoes make there way south and Michael's has NT Kensington Pride mangoes $3 each.

Banana prices continue to drop this week and may come down to $8kg at Aubergines,S37, also watermelon $1.99 kg and strawberry punnets two for $5. Certified-organic grower, Domenic Scarfo artichokes are $2.50 each at House of Organics.

Meat and Seafood

Samtass, on Gouger St, has a great deal on crumbed garfish $15.99 kg and tommy ruff $11.99 kg, buy 1 kg and get 1 kg free. Whole KI King George whiting are for $29.99 kg. Con's, S18, has the famous Blue Ribbon Bung fritz $10.95 kg. Jumbo garlic mettwursts make a great $25 gift from The Mettwurst Shop, S22. Tony O'Connell suggest buying scored pork shoulder roast now, pack the pork in a freezer bag, wrap in newspaper and freeze for Xmas when prices rise. This week $5.99 kg. Ricardo, grandson of Tony Marino, will be making traditional Italian sausages in the shop on Wednesdays. Look for pork with orange rind and fennel seeds for $13.50 kg at Marino's, GS52.

Special

Northern Italian Gorgonzola is a blue cheese that is fantastic folded into rissotto in the final stages or on pasta and pizza. Dolcelatte was developed to provide a milder smelling and tasting alternative to the famous traditional Italian blue cheese. Gorgonzola Dolce is a luscious cheese that is sweet, creamy and not too sharp. As an apperitif, serve with Siena truffled honey on sourdough. Available from Say Cheese, S46, Gorgonzola Dolce is spooned from the cheese wheel for $54.95 kg

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #27

2011-08-24T18:23:00.002+09:30

Fruit and Veg
Rocket is flowering in gardens now but Wild Rocket is available at Thompsons, S26/27. Wild Rocket has a distinguished mustard taste, serrated foliage and intense aroma. Great used on pizza for a peppery bite. $1,80 per bag. Also at Thompsons, tangellos $1.80 kg, kiwi fruit 5 for $2, broccoli $2.50 kg, whole cauliflower $2,20 each. Capsicum prices are down to $5.99 kg at Greenside, S56, and Mario has those delicious Lady Finger bananas for $7.99kg and zuchinni $3.99kg. House of Organics, S34/35, has blood oranges for $4.99kg, passionfruit four for $2 and very tasty 'Tella' tomatoes from Murray Bridge for $3.99kg. The big fat Kensington mangoes from NT are $6.99 each at Coco's, S20/21, also Nashi pears $5.95kg, cumquats $14.95kg and custard apples $8.99kg. If you havent eaten a custard apple before, peel, de-seed and make a smoothie. Its delicious.

Meat and Poultry
Crumbed burger patties made with minced lamb and beef $5.99kg and great value in bulk peices of scotch fillet $17.99 kg and porterhouse $12.99 kg at O'Connell's. Also crumbed for a quick mid-qweek meal are free-range turkey breast schnitzels $12.99kg at Barossa Fine Foods, S60.

Market Lunches
Zedz Cafe, S2, is a mecca for great meals, coffee and service. Owner and chef, Franjo's winter soups are fantastic. Try Morrocan spinach and lentil soup or fresh tomato and oregano, both $9.90 and served with gluten-free toasted bread made in the stall.
Next door is Sun Mi's, S1. Try the green herb Bindaeduk, a traditional mung bean pancake served with Sun Mi's magic sauce, $2 each.

Special
Kalangadoo Organic Apple Juice. Kalangadoo is a small farming community only 35 km from the edge of the Southern Ocean, about halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne. Look for the brown tree frog on the logo as a recognised indicator of healthy orchard ecosystems. The apples are pressed in a traditional 'rack and cloth' press and available at Central Organics, S72. $12.50 for 2 litre flagons

30 Days in Oz: Emily, Port Lincoln, South Australia

2011-08-18T20:41:00.000+09:30

Tourism in Australia ROCKS

2011-08-18T20:34:00.000+09:30

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #26

2011-08-17T07:58:00.002+09:30

Fruit and Veg
The biggest orange sale ever in Adelaide starts tommorrow. Two semi trailers will unload 60,000 kgs of South Australian navel oranges. This Thursday, Friday and Saturday, most fruit stalls in the Central Market will sell 3 kg bags for $1 each.
Aubergines,S57, banana and strawberry prices are way down this week and Mildura asparagus stalks are sweet and tender. Two bunches for $6
Pick-Me-Fresh, S31/31, has five varieties of apples are all $1.99kg, broccoli $2.99kg and sweet corn are $1.20 each. Bill B's, S37, has spinach bunches for $1.50, sugar snaps $9kg and green beans for $5kg.

Meat and Poultry
Feast! Fine Foods, S15, free ranging Birkshire pork is juicy, succulent and terrific for crackling. Loins and racks both $23.99 kg and pork belly is $16.99kg. Also try the 2011 Produce Awards, Pacdon Park haggis and black pudding.
Vegas,S62, has great free- range chicken sausages (GF) for $15.99kg. Tony O'Connell's has new season lamb cutlets for $11.99kg.

Gluten-Free foods
Central Organics, S72, has a great range of gluten-free (gf) breakfast cereals including Gorilla Munch cornflakes and crispy rice flakes both $7.50 a pack. Go to Lucia's Fine Foods, WR3, for frozen gnocci and spinach ricotta ravioli both $11.50 for 500gms. House of Health, S73/74, sells a huge range of gluten-free breads, cakes mixes, pizza bases, muffins and even Italian chocolate croissants. Visit Zedz Cafe, S2, for breads made in store, are available whole or with meals.

Special
Lucias Fine Foods La Genuine Italian toasted wheat pasta is artisan made in the tradition of Puglia. The discs of durum wheat pasta are chocolate coloured and have a nutty semolina flavour. Simmer the discs for 15 minutes and serve with any of the handmade Lucia's tomato sauces. $11.90 for 500gms. La Genuine range includes orecchiotte, cavatelli and fricelli

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #25

2011-08-11T10:43:00.002+09:30

Fruit and Veg

Thompsons S26/27, is serious about labelling their produce and uses 3D cards to show specific place of origin on each label. Spinach is $3 bunch, spring onions $1.80 bunch and leeks $3.50 all from Virginia. Visit Aubergines,S57, for bunches of large beetroots and whole cauliflowers both $3.50 each. Sweet corn and avocados are three for $3 and Pinaroo coliban potatoes $2.49kg. Coco's, S20/21 has fresh guava for $12.99kg, from a Vietnamese grower in Virginia. Guava is high in pectin and perfect for jams and pastes. Buddha's hands, the lemons with fingers are $5.99 each and are great for scenting rooms and as zest. Asparagus is on the way in and are $2 a bunch at Michael's, S53.

Gluten Free ( GF )
GF foods are becoming more available in the market each day. The Mettwurst Shop, S22, has a wide range of salami and mettwursts including the famous 'bum-burner'. Sausages from Wild Oz, pasta and frozen pastry from Lucia's Fine Foods, WR3, and a delicious range of cakes, slices and biscuits from Providore S66.

Meat
Visit Wild Oz, S55, for the unusual this week. Buffalo burgers (GF)$13.99kg, snails $15.80 per dozen and duck eggs $5 per six pack. Munch on crocodile feet for $9.99kg and if thats too hard try crocodile sausages $21.99kg. Feast, S15, has Barossa, corn-fed geese for $21.99 kg and Tony O'Connell says new season lamb is in stock , superb quality and prices are coming down.

Special
Think Mexican, think Jaggers Fine Foods, S38. The Chilli Mojo range includes mulato, smokey chipotte and poblano chillies. "Mulato (moo-LAHT-oh), literally ‘light brown’ or ‘mixed’ is a close relative of the Ancho / Poblano chilli. It’s thick-fleshed pods dried slowly, leave a richness similar to plums with chocolate overtones. It’s a fantastic stuffer for Chiles Rellenos and essential for the classic Mole Poblano."

Adelaide Central Market, House of Organics

2011-08-09T19:04:00.000+09:30

Citrus Thursday from Leigh Griffiths on Vimeo.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #24

2011-08-03T18:43:00.001+09:30

Fruit and Veg

The best pound-for-pound spud in the market is the Royal Blue. The season is now, so get roasting and chipping - $4.99kg. Remember with chips, blanch first, dry, test your oil for heat, and fry twice.

The last of the organic and tender-shoot broccolini $3.99kg both from House or Organics S34/35.

The Imperial Mandarin season (the mandarin with the thin skin), is ending, now $2 kg at S53. Next comes the Amigo, which is easy to peel, and has a good balance of acid and sugar. Buy strawberries now and eat them with every meal. 1/2 kg punnets are $4 at Michael's S13.

Greensides,S56, has the sweet Lady Finger bananas back for $9.99kg and passionfruit are four for $2.

Meat and Poultry

Vegas Poultry S62, ‘Flavours of the World’ tastings this month are Argentinian chimichurri and Greek yiros-spiced, chicken chops both $13.99kg. Pork belly is in demand from TV chefs, so try it yourself. From Tony O'Connell GR47/49, $8kg. Racks of pork, $10kg and lean shoulder pork mince for spring rolls and dim sims $7kg.

Cheese

Smelly Cheese, S44, has a great, melting cheese to go on toast, potatoes, cauliflower and anything else you love grilled. Chimay, washed-rind with beer and aged for twelve weeks, has been made by Trappist monks in Belgium since 1876. $68.95kg

Breakfast

Take home croissants for non-market days. Breadz-n-More, S43, makes butter croissants four for $7, almond croissants are two for $7 and sticky-sweet snails $3 each. Dough, S45, pure butter $2.50 each and almond $3.95 each.

Special

Sevenhill Fine Foods, S75, has the most diverse product range in the market. Crossing the boundaries of Europe and keeping culinary tradition at its heart, Sevenhill stall is the mecca for the hard to find ingredient. Start with the gingerbread range. Jam-filled, coated in german chocolate or with a honey glaze, all moreish. Try a jar of the Sorrel paste for Polish soup – szczawiowa (sorrel soup), is served with a hard-boiled egg garnish, rice or croutons. $3 serves four.

# Adelaide Central Market Watch #23

2011-07-27T09:39:00.000+09:30

It's ‘grow-slow’ time for fruit and vegetables and the varieties and prices have not moved much this week. This gives me the opportunity to bring you up to speed on other fantastic products available in the Market.

Fruit and Veg

Stephan from McMahons, S12, recommends celery, beans, mandarins and strawberries as being best buys for quality and price in the Market this week. Ripe, S61, has beautiful Golden Nugget pumpkins $5.99 kg, sweet corn at 3 for $2, champagne melon $2.99kg, pomegranates $2 each, 500gm punnets of snow peas $2 and stringless beans $8.99kg. Cactus, S6, has a great range of 15 fresh herb varieties, including parsley, mint, oregano, marjoram, dill and thyme all $2.50 each. Pick-me-fresh, S49, has a great deal on SA washed Coliban potatoes 5kg bags for $5. Coco's, S21, for fresh lychees $16.99kg and fresh cumquats and a variety of sweet yams $14.95kg.

Cactus

yams at Coco's

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Coco's Asian vegies

Meat

Feast, S15, launched a new product this week. Whole, local, free-range chicken with 10 gms of finely sliced fresh Tasmanian truffle embedded under the skin. A feast sensation! Also take a recipe card to cook and feed up to six people with Feast's whole beef shins $9.99 kg.

Breakfast

The Big Table Big, Big, Breaky is green eggs and ham, scrambled eggs, parsley pesto, prosciutto on buttery toasted sourdough - $12.50.

Truffled free range chicken at Feast

Feast@Central Market

The Big Table

Cactus Herbs

Bread

Mylor Bakery is a family business with a simple philosophy. No shortcuts, no nonsense, no glitzy labels and no fancy techniques. Instead, they say the quality of their bread is from long fermentation, gentle handling and the best oven. I bought the fruit loaf from Kate's Patisserie, S50, and it was fantastic - $8 each.

Special

Bruna Carrodis has the only Bienenstich in the market. The famed Barossa Bee Sting cake is made in her family bakery, Enjoy, and delivered daily to Bakers Tray, S25. Bruna's version of Bienenstich is a cake filled with sweet, gooey custard and topped with honey-glazed almonds. The name has mixed historical derivations, including the bakers’ being stung whilst stealing the honey for the almond topping and bakers who lobbed beehives at raiders from neighbouring villages. For great a photographic recipe visit www.notquitenigella.com.

Bakers Tray

Adelaide Central Market Watch #22

2011-07-20T19:30:00.000+09:30

The latest national Strawberry Report released by HAL, Horticultural Australia Limited indicates we have 70 million strawberry plants growing today, producing upwards of 60,000 tons of fruit per annum. The value of the industry is between $150-$200 million. Strawberries are grown all year round in Australia and the supply is coming from southern Qld at this time of year. The supply will change to WA towards October and back to SA in summer.

Fruit and Veg

Buy as many oranges as you can eat now to support our growers. Juice them, make cakes and peel and eat to get that burst of juice for $3 for 3kg at many stalls and the price is set to drop further. The strawberries in the market now are from southern QLD and are predominately the 'Festival' variety which are easily identified by their large conical size and firm flesh. Prices are from $3 upwards in the market. Bananas are interesting with the loose picked fruit usually used for drying, now fetching a better price fresh at $9.99kg. Celery is perfect now with big hearts and white sticks. Crunch away. $4-5 bunch accross the market. Adelaide Hills apples are coming from storage but are a great price at $3. Go to Lee at Stall 69 for lemons. $2 kg bags.

Meat and Seafood

Samtass has amazing prices this week with a three day special on Atlantic salmon fillet for $23.99kg and frozen SA whole green prawns $13.99 kg. Starts today. Special this week at Wild Oz, S55, is netted venison leg roasts that will feed 3-4 people. The venison is wild stock from Mt Gambier $8.49 kg.

Market Breakfast

A school holiday treat should be a market breaky. So many choices , so here are two. Zedz Cafe, S2, has the 5- Star-style platter that includes scrambled eggs, bacon, mini sausages, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms and buttery toasted turkish bread. Feeds 3-4+ $28.90. When you go, say hello to the barristas. Neighbouring stall, Taldy Kurghan, S4, offers a Kazakhstan version of warm blini crepes filled with fresh ricotta, sultanas and cream for $7.50 and a Russian omellete with three salads for $7.50.

Special

Simon keeps the flavours coming at the Yoghurt Shop, S66. Chocolate, caramel and crushed peanuts is the latest. Snix your heart out.

Ming's part time job at Adelaide Central Market

2011-07-14T10:12:00.000+09:30

Ming, from Malaysia, through his part-time job at the Adelaide Central Market formed a close friendship with the business owner and his family.

Adelaide Central Market Watch #21

2011-07-14T09:21:00.000+09:30

Fruit & Veg

Chefs go mad for it. Although not much to look at, celeriac is the perfect winter veggie for soups and for adding to potato for mash. It tastes like celery and parsley and is spicy when raw in salads. $3.99 each at the House of Organics S34/35.
Thompsons, S26/27, is always great on price and quality. Go for mandarins $3kg, Packham pears $2.50, large avocados $1 each, broccoli $2.50kg and whole cabbage $2.80 each. Cocos, S20/21 is famed for exotic tropical fruits. Jackfruit, from the mulberry family, has been cultivated for 6,000 years. It is best for cooking in a curry while still green. When ripe, it takes on the heady, sweet flavours of mango, peach, strawberry and lime and is eaten raw. At $9.95kg, it is the same price as green papaya. Green Monkey bananas are $16.95kg. Pomelos from Renmark are $9.95kg - the rind can be added to marmalade. The last of the Aussie grapes are the red seedless Robinvales for $7.99kg from Aubergine, S57. The US imports are still available.

Gourmet
Taldy-Kurghan, S3, named after an abolished Kazakhstan region, is owned and operated by Beijing couple Teo and Wallace.... The cuisine is simple and fulfilling. Try 'Bigos', the hunter’s stew, made with lean pork, mashed potato and cabbage for $8.50 or the signature 'piroshki' $3 each.

Sevenhill Fine Foods, S75, has terrific prices this week on European mayos and mustard. Dijonnaise whole-grain mustard 335gm is $2, and Hellman’s whole egg mayo 400gm for $4.95. Bet you can't resist the orange-zest, sugar-coated ‘Pączki’ jam donut $1.70 each. Smelly Cheese S44, has the new Woodside goat milk, 'Manon'. Wrapped in vine leaf, spiced with garlic and pepper; just serve on a good bread. $9.95 each

Meat
Barossa Fine Foods, S60, has won the 2011 national award for ham on the bone. $11.99kg. O'Connells best buys are grain-fed beef for roasting and cut to size, $9 kg. Meaty beef ribs are $9.99kg.

Special
Antonio Marino comes from Chieti, in the Abruzzio region of Italy. Three generations have followed and together the family has developed the mouthwatering range that is San Marino Smallgoods, at 52 Gouger St. The must-try prosciutto at $44.95kg is cured over 15 months and best selling sausages are olive and pancetta and pork and fennel, 'porchetta' both $13.50kg.

Part One Adelaide Central Market COOKTHISTV

2011-07-06T18:28:00.000+09:30

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #20

2011-07-06T08:36:00.001+09:30

Onions are the essential ingredient for full flavoured cooking. South Australia produces approximately 70,000 tonnes of onions per annum, 35% of Australian production. Farmgate value of SA grown onions to our state is over $65.5 million. Latest figures show SA will harvest 110,741 tonnes of onions comprising of 12% red and 88% brown showing an increase on previous years.

FRUIT & VEG

All the market F&V stalls have onions year round, but they are at their freshness peak now. Look for clean shiny skin, firm flesh and no sprouting. Prices start at $2.99kg and go down. Red onions are $3.99kg. For a great winter salad, combine onions, fennel and navel oranges with olive oil and seasoning. McMahons S47/48 has Riverland navel oranges $1.99kg and crunchy fennel bulbs from Aubergines S57 for $1.50 each

Seville oranges say marmalade me for $3.99kg and blood oranges say sorbet or salad, from House of Organics S34/35. Cocos S20/21 always has new season produce and this week the speckled borlotti beans are $12.95kg and tamarillos for $1.80 each. Mandarins are perfect, juicy , sweet and cheap throughout the market.

The best winter tomato flavour this week is the hydroponic, vine-ripened punnets of cherry tomatoes called the "sweet pearl" from McMahons and Greensides S56 for $3.50

SEAFOOD AND POULTRY

The King of SA seafood, King George Whiting, famed for texture, flavour, flesh ratio and a struggle on the hook, is at an all time low price at Samtass on the Gouger St end. Whole fish $26.99kg and double fillets $35.99 kg. Check Vegas Poultry, S62, for limited numbers of whole certified organic chooks $14.99kg.

SPECIAL

'Bling' is a sparkling non- alcoholic grape juice made from the locally grown Muscat Bordeaux Blanco grapes. The intense fruity characters are peach and nectarine. Look for the 750 ml champagne bottle with the diamote encrusted pendant on the bottle neck $11 at Gourmet to Go S42

# Adelaide Central Market Watch #19

2011-06-29T09:48:00.000+09:30

There is big value is in citrus this week with fantastic quality, abundant varietal choices and good prices.

FRUIT & VEG
Bumper mandarin crops means smaller fruit on the tree but great value and selling at many stalls for $2.50 kg. Navel oranges are $3.99 and lemons are four for $2 at Aubergines S57. Misty gem passion fruit are loaded with pulp, three for $2 , Albanese silver beet $3.60 bunch, fresh Jerusalem artichoke $1.79 kg and 250gm pun nets of sweet yellow cherry tomatoes from Murray Bridge and try their free range eggs from Clare Valley $5.99 dozen, all from House of Organics S34/35. Tasmanian truffles are in season until August and their quality rivals the famed Perigords. Visit Marco at S68 or follow CookThisTV on Facebook.

Lucias Fine Foods (Photo courtesy Lara Cameron-Smith)

SevenHill Fine Foods (Photo courtesy Lara Cameron-Smith)

Taste of Marakech (Photo courtesy Lara Cameron-Smith)

Fresh truffles (Photo courtesy Lara Cameron-Smith)

more truffles (Photo courtesy Lara Cameron-Smith)

GOURMET
Kate's Patisserie S50 has the Afghan tandoori naans two bags for $5 and the Lebanese pita bread for $1.50 per bag of six.
Kolophon caper berries are the rage. The berries come pickled with Murray River salt $12.95 for 150gm jars, as caper seasoning where the used pickling salts are mixed with dried capers $9.95 for 40gm jars , also as a powder and as nibbles. Gourmet to Go S42 and Jagger S38

MEAT AND POULTRY
Go to Feast@the Market for certified organic milk-fed lamb and Coorong angus beef cheeks. The 6-8 week old Suffolk meat is lean, pale and tender $20.99kg and all cuts are available. The trimmed beef cheeks are perfect for slow cooking and cost $19.99kg.
Vegas Poultry ,S62 has Inglewood certified chickens, whole only for $14.99kg. Economy short-back bacon $8.95kg from Con's S18/19.

SPECIAL
Peru Cafe Femenino coffee from The Grind S14, is organic and Fair Trade certified, the latter meaning it was purchased from small-holding farmers at a "fair" or economically sustainable price. Cafe Femenino is an organization that supports women farmers and their families in coffee growing communities $11 for 250gms. Rich, deep aroma with a hint of chocolate.

# Adelaide Central Market Watch #18

2011-06-22T09:53:00.000+09:30

Thanks to readers who follow up products with Stallholders and mention Market Watch. We love the feedback. If you tweet we are on @MyCentralMarket and @foodtoursSA

FRUIT AND VEG

Brussels sprouts are in peak condition now. Michael at S53 has Brussels displayed on their flower spikes. Michael also has the last of the persimmons and suggests finding your dehydrator to preserve the fruit for great lunch-box snacks.

Navel oranges are the best buy now. Fabulous quality, they are locally grown and priced as low as $1.99kg.

Nick and Emelia, owners of Aubergine, S57, say the cold snap has stunned local vegetable growth. Supply is lowered and we can expect prices to creep up for above-ground vegies. Capsicum, eggplant and cucumber prices will go up about $1 per kg. In-ground vegies like potatoes, beetroot and carrots are unaffected and prices are going down.

Central Fresh, S49 has green beans at $5.99kg, pink lady apples at $1.95kg, pears at $1.80kg and the lowest price for bananas at $9.99kg.

Coco's, S20/21, has the first tamarillos for $1.80 each and Jazz apples for $5.95kg. Jazz is a cross between Gala and Braeburn apples, having firm and crunchy flesh and a tangy, sweet flavour.

Lien Heng's best buys are bitter melons for stir-frys at $6kg, sugar peas at $6 for 500gms and spaghetti and winter melons for $5kg.

BREAD & CHEESE

Corner Deli, S71, has great offerings in cheese this week with 200 gm wedges of White Castello Brie at $3.99 and NZ Epicure cheddar blocks for $15.99kg.

Dough, S45, rocks the boat with two new artisan bread rolls, designed for cheese. The raisin and walnut white sourdough knobs are $1.50 each. The other is a white sourdough twist roll, oozing with grilled Aussie Jack cheddar and Emmental.

Go straight to Jaggers for fresh and squishy Iranian dates - $6 for 500 gms. Try stuffing them with ground pistachios, sugar and orange blossom.

MEAT

Stretch your dollar with mince this week. Beef mince is $9 kg, pork mince $7kg, lamb mince $11kg and chicken mince is $8.50kg from O'Connells.

SPECIAL

Simon Bugeya has maintained the Italian tradition, inherited from his grandparents, for producing real food from real gardens in real sunshine. Simon's tomato sauces are among the best handmade sauces on the planet. Made exclusively from hand-picked, ripe, Roma tomatoes from local farms, the sauces lock in the sunshine and flavour of hot South Australian summers.

Simon has not dared to change his Grandmother’s recipes. They include classic Napoletana, Passata and pizza sauces, all for under $8 per jar at Lucia's Fine Foods. WR3

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #17

2011-06-15T20:09:00.000+09:30

As we head into winter, food prices in the ACM are bucking the trend by going down not up.

Fruit And Veg

Local orange prices are coming down as Australian exports face tougher international competition. Mandarins from Paringa, SA, have also come down in price and are 2kg for $5 at McMahons. Limes at Stall 69 are an all time low at $2.50 kg, Adelaide Hills rhubarb is $11.99kg, bunches of leeks and baby beets are both $3.99. Look for the new Kestrel potato for $2kg. Stall 69 owner, Lee, has a snappy recipe card using new purple potato. "BBQ potato with roast garlic aioli and rocket-asparagus salad." Thompsons at S26/27 best buys are pears, broccoli and brown onions all under $3kg. Seven Sisters S54 prices are always low and this week apples are $1.99kg and spinach bunches $2.50kg.

Olives and Oil

The humble olive needs its own section at this time of year. Olives are being picked right across SA. Now is the time to pounce on the local fruit and cure them. Jagger S38, has 21 varieties already cured and swimming in oils, spices and brines. Con's range at S18/19 is in 12 styles and Good Cuisine (S10) has a range of 24 that includes the pale-coloured 'blond Gummeracha'.

The new season oils are arriving and the 2011 Rio Vista Olive Oil is available as an $11 cleanskin 750ml from Providore S66. The extra virgin oil is cloudy to look at, has peppery and bitter tastes and clear granny smith apple characters.

Meat and Seafood

Samtass whole flathead is such a good fish to BBQ. SA species is $11.99kg and the dark skinned Victorian Tiger flathead is $12.99kg. Rub with Asian curry pastes, lay on a bed of lemongrass stalks, seal in alfoil and BBQ for 20 minutes. Serve whole with baked rice.Pork continues to hold the best price at the moment. Rolled pork roast $5.98 kg from Tony O'Connell. Perfect for Schweinebraten, the traditional German caraway seed-roasted pork with dumplings, red cabbage and apple sauce.

Special

Charlesworth Licorice Allsorts are selling a 'Grab-a-Bag' 485gm bag for $5. I could not resist. The allsorts are made of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly, fruit flavourings, and gelatine. Uber-sweet yellow, pink, green and white fondant sandwiched between firm black licorice – a sweet way to finish the Market shopping.

Seven Sisters, Adelaide Central Market

Thompsons , Adelaide Central Market

Stall 69, Adelaide Central Market

Stall 69 owner, Lea Bugeya

Stephan , Owner McMahons, Adelaide Central Market

Samtass, Kings of the Sea, Gus, Sam and Kosta

The first Food SA Summit 2011

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The first Food SA summit is an opportunity to generate ideas with some of Australia's most creative food industry thinkers. Participants are encouraged to bring their curly questions, challenges and products to this hands on food exchange, Tuesday 12 July 2011, 9am to 5pm followed by networking, at the Waite Auditorium.
www.foodsa.com.au

THE MARKETER

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR PRODUCE

Develop a product to fit the market, recruit, select and engage with the supply chain (a SWOT of direct, distributor and agent channel models) plus a few war stories on how to deal with the operational aspects of each link in the chain and the future directions in food.

John Susman is a globally renowned seafood expert and pioneer of the Australian food scene. A passionate advocate of produce driven cuisine, he has spent years working with producers, chefs and retailers around the globe, consistently asking (and answering) the question of: “how can we do it better?”

THE THINKER

FUTURE OF FOOD

Striking the balance between value added, luxury brand positioning and lean manufacturing principles in food.

Göran Roos is the current Adelaide Thinker in Residence and is supporting the development of a strong plan for future directions in South Australia's manufacturing industry and raising its profile. An Honorary Professor at Warwick Business School in the UK and the founder of Intellectual Capital Services Ltd., Goran is a leading think tank on technology and business futures.

THE RETAILER

A LOCAL RETAILING LEGEND

Drawing on 25 years experience, Joseph will provide insight into the Romeo Retail Group, particularly the benefits of working with local markets and businesses in retail.

Joseph Romeo is Co-director, Romeo Retail Group, a South Australian retail icon employing 2,000 South Australians across its 24 stores - IGAs, Foodlands and organic wholefoods. Accolades include winning State Retailer of the Year four times, National Retailer of the year twice and International retailer of the year twice.

THE CHEF

MAKE YOUR PRODUCT APPEAL TO CHEFS

An insight into the working of a restaurant kitchen. The 'must dos' for producers to catch and retain the attention of chefs.

Jared Ingersoll, Chef and media personality is known for his restaurants Danks Street Depot and Cotton Duck, appearances on Ready Steady Cook and for numerous award winning cookbooks. Jared works hard to celebrate the efforts of small scale and local producers and is committed to ethical and sustainable food principles.

THE MEDIA SPECIALIST

DEVELOPING A MEDIA STRATEGY

What are the base level communication tools required to effectively talk to the media and market.

Anthony Huckstep is an Award-winning journalist and author. Editor of Australia's leading restaurant business title foodService Magazine, a restaurant critic for the iconic food bible Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide and reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald Good Cafe Guide.

THE LOGISTICS

HOW TO KEEP YOUR PRODUCT COOL

Introducing the coolant calculator - the solution to guarantee your products arrive fresh to market.

www.foodsa.com.au

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #16

2011-06-08T08:58:00.002+09:30

Pear lovers are testing their poaching skills on the perfect pears now available. Try twice- cooking the Beurre Bosc variety. First, poach with Tahitian vanilla pods available from Leo's Cheese ST 28/29, then bake and serve with Alexandrina cream from Smelly Cheese ST44. The Beurre Boscs are $4.99 at ST44.

FRUIT & VEG
Riverland Imperial mandarins are sweet and juicy at $2.99kg. Huge Chinese cabbages are $2.50 each, watermelon is 99c kg, corella pears are $5.99kg and the end of season crimson seedless grapes are $1.99kg, all from Stephan at ST16. Con's ST52 has large Hass avocados, 3 for $3, sweet baby carrots $2kg and the last Adelaide Hills persimmons for $4kg.

Starfruit

Dacca Bananas

Coco's has some great new lines. The stars are new-season guava for $9.95kg, red-skinned Dacca bananas $14.95kg, starfruit 3 for $5 and bunches of mixed white and purple carrots for $4.95. The ripening red Dacca has a red-purple skin, creamy light-pink flesh and a delicate raspberry-banana flavour.

Michael's ST53 has six local apple varieties all at $3kg.

MEAT, SEAFOOD & POULTRY

Chicken breast fillet is $8.99 at Poultry Cuisine ST51, large, whole SA squid $19.90kg and live 1kg bagged Boston Bay mussels are $8.90 at Samtass.

It's roasting weather this week so try O'Connells red-wine, garlic-beef roast $9.90kg, tequila-lime, scotch fillet of pork $11.90kg or the boneless lamb legs, marinated in a traditional Greek spice mix at $13.90.

SPECIAL

Bibimbap is the signature Korean dish made by Sunmi at Stall 1. Meaning "mixed meal', Bibimbap is served in a very hot stone bowl. Warm white rice is topped with namul (sautéed and seasoned vegetables) and gochujang (chili pepper paste). A raw or fried egg and sliced meat (usually beef) is added and diners stir the ingredients before eating. Sunmi's nickname for the popular dish is "taxi driver food" as it's "mix, eat and go!!!"

Top fare corners the market in Adelaide - Travel - Lifestyle - Moonee Valley Leader

2011-06-07T17:24:00.000+09:30

Top fare corners the market in Adelaide - Travel - Lifestyle - Moonee Valley Leader

CALLUM Hann has a dream for the perfect cup of coffee.

The MasterChef 2010 runner-up would make his sugar from fresh cane, grind his coffee from aromatic beans and squeeze his milk from a contented dairy cow for that ideal “flat white with one”.

That dream may be a long way off, but according to the boy from the Barossa everything else for foodies to casual cooks can be found at the Adelaide Central Market - the perfect day trip or short stay for Melburnians.

Hann buys his ingredients at the 142-year-old market and calls it “the epicentre for food in South Australia”. “It’s not as big as somewhere like the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne, but it’s got heart and soul, you could get lost in there,” Hann says.

The market, bordered by Gouger and Grote streets in Adelaide’s CBD, is an undercover smorgasbord with a “village-like atmosphere”, according to gourmet stall Providore owner Mark Gleeson.

Gleeson runs tours of the market, threading small groups through the fruit and vegetables, gourmet cheese, bakeries and coffee shops, showcasing the highlights and giving a peep into the history and successes of the market.

Start at the chocolate fountain at Providore, then drool at the menu at Lucia’s Pizza and Spaghetti Bar.

If you like what’s on offer but can’t stay for a meal, wander next door to buy the ingredients to make the dishes at home.

Learn of the history of the first Asian stall at the market on your way to sample the finest cheese at The Smelly Cheese Shop.

Then pick up your favourite cut of meat at Feast @ the Market, as recommended by Hann and also food writer Stephanie Alexander.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #15

2011-06-01T17:10:00.001+09:30

Kick off the shopping with superfoods, grains and pulses from House of Health, ST 73-74.

Australian grown and kiln-dried organic red quinoa $14.99 kg, makes for a high-protein basis for soups, braises, breads and bakes. Amaranth grain is $14.50kg, Yorke Peninsula green-brown lentils $3.00kg and the All-in-one soup mix of beans and lentils is $4kg

Follow on with classic winter vegetables such as broccoli, celery and shallots - all are excellent prices and quality at the moment. Butternut pumpkins at ST 69 are $2 each. Choose different potatoes for different meals. Dutch Cream are waxy and perfect to roast, Nicolas for mash and the starchy King Edward for the best chips. All are under $5kg at ST34-35.

Queensland strawberries, tangelos and mandarins and Californian cherries are here for our winter.

Meat and Poultry

Casserole meats from Barossa Fine Foods are great this week. MSA yearling diced beef is $9.90kg. MSA beef is a grading program designed to guarantee tenderness. Ox-tail $11.99kg, Osso Bucco $13.99kg and lamb shanks are $4.50 each.

At $8kg, try O’Connell’s pork belly. Roasted on high, fat-side down first, flip when the crackling is crisp and glaze with a sharp marmalade to finish the roast. Take home a free copy of the Meat and Livestock Association’s Entice magazine for

ideas. Vegas Poultry ST62, this week has a 5 for $6 promotion on chicken koftas.

SPECIAL

The best time of day to eat chocolate is before, during or after any kind of activity, during working hours, morning or afternoon tea, with or without drinks, coffee, or pretty much any time you have a pulse.

There are four new handmade chocolates from Adelaide chef and chocolatier, Marcus. Using only Belgian chocolate, these are, a rectangular block chocolates, the centre made using local box honey from Echunga and milk chocolate then covered in 75% dark chocolate.

Then there is a truffle made with local currants and brandy, coated in dark chocolate and dusted with Dutch cocoa.

The third is a butter dark chocolate ganache truffle with peppermint, coated in dark chocolate and rolled in chocolate shavings.

The last truffle is organic lemon and saffron in white chocolate and coated in dark chocolate.

Priced at $1.50 each only from Providore ST 66.

STALL GIFTS - The Australian Weekend Magazine 28.5.11

2011-05-29T16:01:00.001+09:30

By Rebecca Puddy

AS the sun rises over Adelaide, chefs scour the Central Market for fresh produce brought direct from the state's market gardens, fisheries and slaughterhouses. A few hours later, families, singles, couples and the elderly converge, stocking up for their home-cooked dinners.

The market’s appeal is hard to pinpoint – it’s an aromatic, noisy, bustling collection of stalls in a cavernous shed with bitumen floors. Sampling steaming hot artisan sourdough bread straight out of the oven, Korean black garlic and fluffy Woodside goat’s cheese wrapped in flower petals are just some of the experiences it offers. For many South Australians it is hallowed ground, a vital part of the city’s cultural heritage.

Mark Gleeson, a retired chef, gazes out at the shoppers from his specialty pastry stall with a cheeky smile. A passionate advocate of the market, he has developed a side business of Central Market tours to introduce tourists and locals to its culinary treasures. “It’s all about understanding the diversity and getting to know the stories of the people who work here,” Gleeson says. “I like to show people what the markets are really about.”

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The Adelaide institution began at 3am on a January morning in 1869 when a group of market gardeners, escorted by a school band, made their way to the city to sell their produce. It has now grown to become one of the largest undercover markets in the southern hemisphere; there were nearly eight and a half million visits by customers last year. The produce stalls are cherished by food connoisseurs, with patrons including culinary identities Matt Moran, Maggie Beer and Cheong Liew.

Over its 142-year existence the market has diversified in line with the state’s migration patterns, and is now a microcosm of South Australian culture. European migrants now own the older stalls, selling meats, fruit and vegetables, and imported delicacies. Newer arrivals include a Moroccan spice stall, Korean sushi house and a Russian-Chinese café.

Moroccan migrant Anouar Senah, whose stall has been open for two months, is the most recent arrival. His shelves are filled with fragrant spices imported from the Middle East to make the classic spice mix ras el hanout. Bright yellow preserved lemons bought from neighbours who grow them in their backyards nestle in large glass jars on the counter.

“I mainly stock South Australian food, with the exception of the spices you can only get from the Middle East,” Senah says. “Since I started here, I’ve had lots of customers who are interested and asking about Moroccan food and how to cook it.”

Over time, the market has adapted to changing Australian culinary tastes, introducing specialty stores, organic produce and a greater range of international foods. While diets are becoming more adventurous, the market still focuses mainly on farm produce, with fruit and vegetable stalls and butchers remaining market mainstays.

One of the most successful traders in the market is Richard Gunner, who farms his acclaimed Coorong Angus Beef and Pure Suffolk Lamb on South Australia’s southeast coast and sells it in his shop Feast! Fine Foods. While he sells only a fifth of his meat through Feast! – the remainder is sold through retail wholesalers and interstate – he considers his stall a cornerstone of his success.

“It’s the most visited tourist destination in South Australia so it serves as a showcase for our product to interstate markets,” Gunner says. “Through our customer base we also see trends emerging and we can talk to them and get really good feedback.” His business plan has clearly worked, with his succulent meat gracing the tables of some of Australia’s top restaurants, including Neil Perry’s Rockpool chain.

“I wish Sydney had something like Adelaide’s market,” says Perry, “because young aspiring cooks and young chef’s apprentices can go into the market and really get a daily feel of seasonality and beautiful fresh produce, and that’s an important part of growing as a cook. We’ve seen – with farmers’ markets springing up around the country – that people come there because they want to stay in contact with where their food is from.”

Simon Bryant, from ABC-TV’s The Cook and the Chef, says the market is unlike any other in Australia. “I think our market is unique because we have such diversity of climate, so the produce that is South Australian in the market is incredibly diverse – from the Asian greens grown on the Adelaide plains to the saltbush meats from way out in Burra,” he says. “The Queen Victoria Market [in Melbourne] is great, but I just think South Australia has this little bit of an advantage. I’ve travelled a lot and this is unique. It’s up there with the best markets in the world.”

Fruit and veg stall House of Organics has identified consumers’ desire to know more about the food they are buying, displaying signs that identify the origin of the produce and its farm treatment. While less than 50 per cent of his produce is certified organic, manager Bill Howison hopes the stall’s increasing popularity will prompt more farmers to grow chemical-free food.

“We use a lot of South Australian produce and try to stick with organic food where we can,” he says. “In our experience, people are definitely more interested in knowing more about where their food is coming from. I’m not sure if it’s the same in the wider community, but the people who shop here want to know.”

Barossa Fine Foods butcher Alex Knoll is a fourth-generation smallgoods maker of German ancestry who runs his family’s stall while his brothers manage the business. His father, Franz, established the store 20 years ago and the family business has expanded to include five retail outlets and a factory in Adelaide’s northern suburbs that supplies Australia-wide.

Knoll says demand for European-style smallgoods remains strong, attributing it to his father’s focus on mixing modern tastes with traditional methods. “As soon as my father gets a new idea, he creates it,” Knoll says. Their “intense” smoky bacon was named Australia’s best at the Australian Bacon Awards this year. The company sources product mainly from the Barossa, venturing elsewhere only when there is not enough supply.

Working in the family business is a passion for Knoll, who wakes at 4am to set up the market stall or prepare meats at the factory. “My mother manages the market stall and my father works on the factory floor,” he says. “We love doing it and there’s not a day I wake up and wish I was doing something else.”

While the market carries enormous sentimental value to South Australians and continues to be a tourist attraction, it will face challenges over the coming years that may threaten its existence. The city council is reviewing the future of the market and looking at ways to modernise its appearance. The city’s Lord Mayor, Stephen Yarwood, has declared his interest in improving the infrastructure of the market and is developing a management plan to update the ageing facilities.

But Gleeson, a self-appointed protector of the market, is concerned council intervention could stifle the atmosphere, taking away the rustic charm that draws locals and tourists alike. “The council wants to come in and clean up the place,” he says. “What they don’t understand is that if they change that, they’ll change what is so special about the market. We need to ensure a market like ours doesn’t get drowned out in the blandness of the supermarket experience.”

The national supermarket duopoly remains a concern for Central Market traders. “Their biggest weapon is their convenience,” says House of Organics’ Howison. “Plus, supermarkets are always going to have cheaper bananas or tomatoes so green¬grocers need to focus on a point of difference.”

While the market’s focus is on fresh produce, one of the favourite haunts for shoppers is a family-run Italian restaurant tucked away in a dark corner. The 1960s décor, good value Italian food and mountainous layers of foam topping the espresso-style coffees at Lucia’s transports customers to a bygone era.

Opened in 1959 by Italian migrants Pasquale and Lucia Rosella, the restaurant is now run by their children and grandchildren. Daughter Nicci Bugeja says that being at the market is like coming home. “We haven’t changed a thing in Lucia’s recipes and have stayed true to her strict instructions on how to make things like pasta sauce,” she says. Such is the popularity of Lucia’s pasta sauce that Nicci’s children, Lee and Emma, have created a business bottling the family recipe and selling it in more than 400 stores around Australia.

On Friday nights, families gather at Lucia’s for a weekly meal before heading home with their arms laden with fresh food and bellies full of silky fresh pasta. Long after the sun has set over the River Torrens, the last customers amble down the dark, empty aisles of the Central Market hunting for end-of-day bargains while the stall owners pack up their wares. They will return before dawn tomorrow to start again.

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #14

2011-05-25T07:37:00.000+09:30

Fruit and Veg

Non-exploding seedless watermelons from Northern Territory are delicious and safe to eat, from many vendors. Le Fruit ST 16/17 is selling them at $3.99kg along with carrots $1.99kg and stringless beans $3.99 kg. Seek out Bill from House of Organics - his knowledge of how our locally grown produce is grown is extensive. Bill tells me that this week wholesalers are getting good prices interstate, which shortens supply in SA and raises prices. His word is ''Navel oranges are here but the best is yet to come as the fruit flavour deepens the longer it stays in the sun". Aubergine ST57 has great prices on local produce this week. Kingston on Murray sweet corn $1 each, Pinnaroo Coliban potatoes $2.49 kg, beetroot bunches and good-sized cauliflower from Virginia both $3.50 each and half kilo punnets of Mt Barker strawberries $5 each. Rockmelon supply is running low but the Brassicaceae are in full bloom. Cruciferous food plants such as cabbages, broccoli, watercress, and Brussels sprouts are perfect now.

Meat, Poultry and Seafood.

Go to Samtass for oysters from Smoky Bay on the Eyre Peninsula. These oysters have a flavour explosion for $12.90 doz. Ricardo, grandson of Tony Marino the butcher, has created the new Fellino salami. Made of pure pork, salt and whole black peppercorns - the taste is fantastic at $29.50 kg Gouger St 52/54. Go to Feast Fine Foods S15, for boneless lamb loin, easy-carve roast. The Dorper lamb from Spear Creek in the Flinders Ranges is herbaceous and tender - $34.95 kg.

Special

So many special foods to write about in a small space, so salt, essential to life and one of the oldest seasonings on earth, is my pick this week. First time in the Market ever is 10kg bricks of Himalayan rock salt. Pakistani Pink salt bricks can be used for sautéing, grilling and chilling, curing, baking, salting, plating, bathing, and contemplating. Mined from Precambrian deposits, the bricks are beautiful to hold, to look at and take your cooking skills to the next level. Jagger Fine Foods has the ultimate selection of salt including the bricks, as does Lucia's Fine Foods.

The salt from top, clockwise, Sichuan salt and pepper (1 part sichuan pepper 3 parts maldon sea salt, roasted and ground), Black sea salt ($7/ 100g, has activated charcoal added, from Cypress), Murray River pink salt flakes ($8.60 250g box), black salt (Herbies $4.20 40g, black in its rock form it is pink when ground, used in Indian cooking), Flor de Sal with oven roasted kalamata olives (from Spain, delicious in all Mediterranean cooking esp, tomato/ buffalo mozzarella salad is $24 150g), Maldon sea salt ($9.20/ 240g), Sel de Guerande ( French grey sea salt, $6.20 100g).

Middle, smoked sea salt, ($7 150g, really good on all meats for a chargrilled smokey flavour). There is more salt info from Lucy's blog. http://wholeisgreater.wordpress.com/

Thanks Lucy from Jagger Fine Foods for the salt photos and info

Premium food scheme makes producers edgy

2011-05-24T16:18:00.000+09:30

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Premium food scheme makes producers edgy

http://www.indaily.com.au/

MELISSA MACK

A MOVE to protect SA’s premium foods by giving them special accreditation labels has left food businesses deeply wary of high costs and too much red tape, for no particular benefit.

Food Marketing Minister John Rau gave few details when he announced last week that an Australia-first scheme was being considered to give SA products European-style regional labelling to certify their origins.

Mr Rau said the idea had grown from his discussions with “leading figures in South Australia’s premium food industry. He made the media announcement at the Adelaide Central Market in the company of TV chef Simon Bryant and vineyard owner Duncan McGillivray.

Appellation control is the legal framework of the international wine industry.

However, Food SA chief executive Catherine Barnet said local businesses were concerned the costs of joining any appellation scheme could outweigh the possible marketing benefits.

“It could be a good thing but the devil will be in the detail. We won’t be supportive of it if it will be a greater cost to small business,” Ms Barnet told Indaily.

Mr Rau said proper consultation would begin next month seeking feedback on the value, size and scope of such a scheme, which he said would add value for producers.

“We want to be in a position where consumers in South Australia, and around the world for that matter, of our products know when they buy something with a certification stamp on it – the approved, appellation control stamp – they know with absolute confidence the product they are buying is 100 per cent from that region,” Mr Rau said.

But Ms Barnet said the state didn’t have the depth to support strict regional appellation systems such as the ones in Europe.

“We are very interested in the level to which it goes and the compliance surrounding that,” she said.

“It is a matter of where the line is drawn. A true appellation scheme in Europe means a producer grows the feed for the chooks that are slaughtered in the region,” she said.

“A system that allowed no external supply that really comes from the ground up would be an unworkable situation.”

Ms Barnet said SA did not have a “hero” food, such as the champagne of France, that would be unique to an Adelaide region.

She said the scheme would suit some producers but her concern was for the businesses that it didn’t.

“I’d be interested to see the net result of economic impact and how many businesses it will benefit and how many will lose.”

Fleurieu Food Group chair Rachel McMillan said the Government had shown great foresight with the scheme.

“It will be a complicated process but it will benefit all local food producers and also be great for the consumer.”

Ms McMillan, whose business Scoop SA sells regional produce wholesale, said producers would need to be able to choose whether to participate in the scheme.

“It’s something that will need to be developed. It would be hard to penalise people for not being able to source something locally.”

She hoped the Government would subsidise the scheme and that any initial costs would likely be offset by being able to ask for a premium price.

“I think the consumer is increasingly aware of regionality, particularly the tourist dollar.

“There will be the people who buy produce locally and don’t want to see an increase in price, but this scheme will be aiming at a different market.”

She said the only people who wouldn’t benefit would be producers that were mislabelling their products.

In making the announcement, Mr Rau said SA’s premium food industry had “come of age”.

“Our premium regional foods are the equal of any in the world – it’s time we protected them with the same vigour as do the Italians and the French,” he said.

“As well as informing consumers, this scheme will protect valuable regional names – such as the ‘Barossa’, ‘McLaren Vale’ and ‘Kangaroo Island’ – from free-riding exploitation by businesses outside of these regions.”

Adelaide Central Market Food Watch #13

2011-05-18T20:23:00.000+09:30

The Baby Romas are tiny but wow - they pack a punch of sweetness.

Navel oranges are coming in now, with Barmera 3 kg bags for $4.99 and Qld mandarins are $3.99 kg from McMahons St 47/48.

Local mandarins will be ready for market in June. Our cool climate is causing upward price

creep on cauliflowers and a shortage in local strawberries. Thompsons at St 26/27 has parsnips

$5.50kg, turnips and swedes $4kg and brussels sprouts $2.50 for 400gms. ‘Tis the season for

cabbage so try the savoy, famed for minestrone or stuffed with rice.

Meat and Poultry

Go to Wild Oz for wild rabbits for $13kg and to O’Connells for beechwood-smoked, no fat no waste,

eye bacon for $11.99kg. Also fresh whole 1.5kg chickens are $6 each or the same chickens are redgum –smoked for $7each. Murphy’s Crossing 700g free-range eggs, produced in Wasleys SA, are $3.99 from House of Health St72.

SPECIAL

With cabbages so good, try the fresh, barrel-fermented, Polish sauerkraut ‘kiszona kapusta’ from

Sevenhill Fine Foods ST75 and on special there Pfeffernüsse biscuits. The name translates to

‘pepper nuts’ in German, Danish and Dutch, describing their spicy taste. 2 packs for $5.

Susan Kurosawa Market Tour Review from '05

2011-05-16T20:17:00.002+09:30

Cleaning out the files on a dying PC I found a great comment from SK

It’s not all serious! It’s great fun!

Combining the past, the present and the future of the iconic Adelaide Central Market in two hours is a challenge met by Mark and his team of professional Food Tourism Guides. There is real fun to be enjoyed on the tour. Food and cooking is now seen as a lifestyle choice to be enjoyed and relished. The market tour takes the fast track to enjoying the myriads of choices available to the customer.

A personal shopping guide who can talk all day about flavour, quality, texture, origin and cooking tips is hard to beat.

“In a nutshell, it is what we love: edible tourism. But for an in-depth appreciation of what's on offer and the opportunity to talk to stallholders and sample their specialist wares, a tour is the answer. Restaurateur and food lover Mark Gleeson has worked at the market for more than 20 years and takes around small groups. His is an insider's view.

Gleeson moves at a cracking pace and his 90-minute tour must be treated as reconnaissance: make notes on which stalls are worth a second look.”

Free-ranging market tour a feast for the senses

THE CURIOUS COOK

Susan Kurosawa

November 19, 2005

Burgers for late night City revellers - City Messenger - News - Messenger News

2011-05-05T18:38:00.000+09:30

Burgers for late night City revellers - City Messenger - News - Messenger News

Adelaide Central Market Watch #12

2011-05-04T10:16:00.001+09:30

Mothers Day means get the family together and cook up a storm.

Fruit and Veg
Banana prices are varying, Lady Fingers are my choice at $6.99 kg and say goodbye to sugar plums from Stall 56. Certified Organic, Forest Range Fuji apples are $8kg but worth every cent from Central Organics. Con’s Stall 52, Fuji, Pink Lady and Gala apples all are under $4kg while neighbouring brother‘s Stall 53, Michael’s, has the best prices on Corella, Packham and Tsu- Li pears. All $2.50kg. Tsu-Li pears are long shaped, with coarse freckled skin, and firm flesh. Pineapple aroma, cream coloured inner, with a delicious floral taste. Suggested uses: eating, salads, cheese platters, roasted, grilled and poached . Michaels’ Riverland lemons are a steal at 12 for $3 bag. Stall 34/35 for cheap local broccoli and organic Willunga turnips $3.99kg. Standby for globe artichokes.

Meat and Seafood
100% beef burgers with red wine and herbs are the latest at Feast Fine Food at $2 each. Soups and stews are here for the next few months so embrace the cheaper cuts for slow-cooking. Lean beef blade $10kg is great for pies, goulash, curries and casseroles from O’Connell’s. For authentic Italian spaghetti bolognaise sauce combine 1kg beef mince $8kg and half a kg pork mince at $7kg. Samtass Seafood’s prepared salt and pepper squid at $19.99kg is a winner with my kids. Cooked on the BBQ or in the pan, serve with lemon, chilli and rice or chips.

Take Home
30 market Stalls serve the best range of value added food in the state. Visit Breadz’n’More Stall 43, where owner Fiori Mazzone bakes traditional Italian breads at his stall. Filoni, quattro and ciabatta loaves and also zeppoli and almond croissants. Leo’s Stall 28/29 Angaston vintage shiraz vinegar $19.95,and at The Mettwurst’ Shop- Stall 22, try the famed “Fire Starter” with a heat rating of 11/10 that will satisfy all hot sausage lovers. Doyley’s Stall 41 quiches are delicious. The large atlantic salmon and asparagus quiche for $23 will feed the family.

SPECIAL
This Thursday night tune into SBS Italian Food Safari to see the Marino family cook their famous ‘Porchetta’. The ancient Abruzzi technique uses rolled shoulder pork, seasoned with Tony Marino’s secret blend of spices, herbs and salt. . While roasting, baste every 30mins with lemon juice for the perfect crackling. Marino’s Meats Gouger St 52/54

#Adelaide Central Market Watch #10 Published 20.4.11

2011-04-20T21:31:00.000+09:30

Now is time for some serious market shopping. The Central Market is open today, all day Thursday until 9pm and 7am-3pm Saturday re-opening Wednesday 27th.

Fruit and Veg

Premium quality broccolini $2.99 bunch, asparagus bunches 2 for $5 and leeks looking sweet at $2.99 Bananas and grapes are in short supply but Adelaide Hills pears and apples are going hard. Try the Coromandel Valley Howell pears all at Aubergines. Eggplants are perfect now and great for grilling or stuffing. Cocos has the best range of Easter berries including raspberries, blueberries $8 punnet and kiwi berries $6 punnet. Try his fresh guavas at $ 12.95 kg.

Meat and Seafood.

Pork is the best buy at this time of the year. Shoulder on the bone is best for roasting $5.99kg . Blade steak, osso -bucco both $10 kg and Ox tails form Tony O’Connel & Sons make for long slow cook-ups. Samtass seafood sale is red hot and should not be missed.

Sweets and Cheese

Le Delice des Cremiers, presented in a round timber box, is rich and decadent. The triple cream is encased in a velvety white mould $15.95 ea Smelly Cheese Shop.Fresh cream Pavlova Rolls at Providore come in three flavours. Berry and choc chip, apricot and almond and wattleseed and macadamia $28 ea.

Special

Pashmak Persian Fairy Floss comes in 5 flavours costs $8 per pack and is served on its own or as an accompaniment to fruits, cakes, ice creams, puddings and desserts The word Pashmak means "little wool" in Persian, as the confectionery resembles sheep's wool. The pistachio is my favourite. Jaggers Stall 38

Market Watch #9 Published Advertiser 13.4.11

2011-04-14T10:11:00.000+09:30

The Adelaide Central Market has joined the City Solar Grid and is now powered by 50 per cent accredited green power. Traders divert 90 per cent of market waste from landfill each year including 700 tonnes of organic green waste for composting.

Fruit and Vegetables

Put local hybrid potatoes on the shopping list. The waxy Virginia Rose is perfect for gnocchi and the Cashmere Gold makes great mashed potatoes. Rhubarb, quinces and pears should also be on the list. Nashi, corella and Beurre Bosc varieties are the best choices. Beetroot and cauliflower prices are down. Good sized local garlic $25kg and yellow/green squash at Stall 69.

Everyone loves Pink Ladies and they are here now $5.99kg. Baby sprouts and broccoli make perfect cool weather eating. Amber jewel plums are fat and juicy $2.99kg.The best tomatoes are sometimes behind counters and you have to be in the know. Try Stephan at Stall 47

Meat and Seafood

Going 4WD camping? Camp-oven pot-roast rump $9kg and redgum-smoked ham in $10 pieces are in cryovac and perfect for the esky. Ten types of snags from $6kg at Stall GR47. Swieconka, the Polish Blessing sausage, is only available this week - Stall 75. Samtass seafood sale is well and truly on and best buy is SA Spencer Gulf green prawns slightly damaged $11.99kg

Sweets and Cheese

Le Delice des Cremiers, presented in a round timber box, is rich and decadent. The triple cream is encased in a velvety white mould $15.95 ea Smelly Cheese Shop.Fresh cream Pavlova Rolls at Providore come in three flavours. Berry and choc chip, apricot and almond and wattleseed and macadamia $28 ea.

SPECIAL

Dough baker and chef Sally Chant makes sour dough baguettes that are the closest thing to the Champs Elysees. Her secret is in the two-year old grape-skin starter. The dough is sprinkled with semolina for that crusty texture then baked on stone at 3am each market morning. $3.50 each Stall45

Adelaide Central Market Traders call for more Easter trading hours.

2011-04-06T19:55:00.007+09:30

"I have been instructed by our committee to write a letter regarding the trading hours proposed for Easter Thursday. The 5.30 pm closing time is too early to allow our customers to buy their Easter requirements .

This day is the single busiest day of the year.This would severely impact on our sales and credibility with the public; it would make us the only food retail precinct not to be available for our customers on that evening."

Franz Knoll

President , Central Market Traders Association
Ph +61 408817126
franzknoll@barossafinefoods.com.au

Market Watch #8 Published Advertiser 6.4.11

2011-04-06T16:38:00.001+09:30

Easter preparation is in full swing and many traditions are on show at the ACM. An international range of chocolate eggs, mice and bilbies is available. Then there are hot-cross buns made by local and interstate bakers, bunches of flowering Easter daisies and fresh chestnuts. Easter is also the time for lamb on the spit, tsoureki (Greek Easter bread), colomba (Italian Easter bread, see Special), barszcz biały or żur (white borsch from Poland), baccala (salt cod) and seafood.

Fruit and Veg

She’s all apples this week. New season Fuji are in at $2.99kg. Little Johnnies are the perfect size for baking and Pink Ladys are on the way. Bananas are getting tough to get and prices range between $6.99 and $14 kg. Tasmanian beans have the crunch $3.99kg, pumpkin $1.99kg and perfect cauliflower $4.50 each. Avocados are four for $3, asparagus $2.50 bunch. Ribier grapes are becoming popular $5.99 kg and Santa Rosa plums are still in at $3.99kg. Overcast weather is playing havoc with strawberries, slowing the ripening and raising the price for premium quality.

Meat and Poultry

Cold weather signals time for slow roasting. Best cuts are shoulder lamb $11.99kg, South East SA beef rump $9kg and Vegas Stall 62 certified organic chickens $14.99. Barossa Fine Foods now has its Easter-only, Canadian maple and cinnamon-cured and smoked bacon rashers for $6 pack.

Special

Colomba di Pasqua, ‘Easter Dove’, the Italian Easter version of panettone, is shaped like a dove. The sweetened dough contains candied peel and is topped with pearl sugar and almonds. Lucia’s Fine Foods. From $28. Buona Pasqua!

Advantage SA 2011 Regional Awards Program

2011-03-31T19:38:00.000+10:30

Advantage SA 2011 Regional Awards program.

The Regional Awards have provided a fantastic forum to commemorate and promote individuals, groups and organisations who live and work in regional South Australia and have contributed to the development of their region.

In the programs twelve year history, 2010 was the most successful as it saw increased awareness of the program with the highest level of nominations and awards.

2011 marks the next chapter of promoting the State's successes under the Advantage SA brand. Join us as we celebrate the people of South Australia.

For more information on the 2011 Regional Awards, contact Advantage SA on (08) 8211 8111 or email regionalawards@advantagesa.com.au
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Market Watch #7 Published 30.3.11 Advertiser #Adelaide

2011-03-30T19:01:00.002+10:30

As Easter approaches, hot-cross bun aficionados are beginning their research for the best ACM buns. The sweet, spiced buns, made with fruit and leavened with yeast are topped with a cross, symbolising the Crucifixion in modern times. Already three stalls are in the run-up. This year chocolate buns are mounting a competitive challenge.

Fruit & Veg

The once in twenty-year weather conditions this summer are responsible for the seasonal incongruities of supply to the market. Winter conditions are affecting normal summer crops, so we are anticipating less late summer vegetables and higher prices. Yet, for stone-fruit, the season is extending to be one of the best ever. Tomato prices rise as the cold sets in and Riverland rockmelons can’t be picked due to 4-5 inches of rain. Peaches and nectarines are still fantastic.

ACM prices always reflect value with carrots $1.99 kg, corn $1 ea, asparagus two bunches for $5 and rhubarb $9,99kg from Nick at Aubergines Stall 57. Mario from Greensides Stall 56 has local garlic three for $2, baby eggplant from his own garden (Oh Yum) at $4.99kg, Damson plums $3.99kg and the first, as usual, local quinces for $3.99kg. Californian mandarins (check for stickers) and are $6.95kg, broccoli $3.50kg and pears and limes are abundant, cheap and delicious.

Search out Cambodian-born Rom, one of the only ACM stallholders who is also a grower and the owner of Bill B’-Stall 37. Chillies, flat beans $8,50kg, hot banana capsicums and his long baby eggplants shine out at $4.99. Rom’s stall has the only remaining electronic conveyor belt to load stock upstairs. Heritage protection?

Meat & Poultry

With the cold snap and high lamb prices, try turkey legs. There is a secret to removing the sinew so ask Tony O’Connell and get his recipes for turkey soups and roasts. Tony’s tequila and lime pork chops $8.90 kg are heart warmers. Feast Fine Foods boned ducks and beef cheeks are perfect to try your French bistro meals and terrines at home.

Sweet Things

Glacé apricots and figs filled with mascarpone from Leo’s are heaven sent. From $1.90 each.

The ACM Hot Cross Bun Challenge

Email and let me know your favourite bun and where you bought it. The best will be judged by the number of votes.

Special

Samtass Seafood, named after brothers Sam and Tass, has a pre-Easter seafood brochure offering up to 50 per cent discount on 16 major lines. 40 percent OFF SA Spencer Gulf cooked Extra Large prawns...save $12 per kilo Pay $18.99 kg.

I ate fresh Adelaide Hills wild porcini and need more

2011-03-30T17:22:00.001+10:30

Yesterday, Adelaide Central Market Mushroom Man hesitated to sell me one of the first fresh wild porcini ever found in South Australia possibly in Australia. Marco was saving the wild rarity for his best chef customers and mobile was running hot with calls to get some. He buckled and I bought this beauty. Lucky for me, Lachie from the Manse and Callum were about and handy with a frypan.
I only ate a few slivers..but will remember this flavour forever. My first sensation was texture..it's.. velvet and silky with resistance. The flavour gently builds, gracefully releasing of the rich woody forest mushroom character we know from dried porcini. It's a show stopper so go see Marco and try your luck.

"Porcini are among the most flavoursome and sought-after mushrooms in the world. They are gathered wild and have a rich heady flavour and a meaty texture that make them strong enough to be served with steak, yet delicate enough to use in an elegant sauce."

http://mushroomman.com.au/Porcini-Cepes.html

His Adelaide Hills pine mushrooms are also in the market this week

"Pine mushrooms get their name because they commonly grow under pine trees. They’re also known as milky saffron, as they exude a milky orange sap when cut. Pines pop up in summer to autumn, after warm sunny days and a good downpour. While their vibrant saffron-coloured cap, gills and stems adds colour to any dish, their flavour won’t let you down, either. They have a firm texture and a full, roasted nut flavour perfect with fresh pasta and egg based dishes. "

http://www.cookingwithmushrooms.com/index.html

The Adelaide Review - Celsius

2011-03-27T23:30:00.000+10:30

The Adelaide Review - Celsius Some years ago I prognosticated that fennel pollen would be the next big thing. (At least a little thing on a list of little hot things.) It has taken its time. Lardo (a superior Italian lard) has made it off my list and on to menus as well. A few stragglers still wait for their time in the sun. We needed places like Celsius Restaurant and Bar to serve perfectly bubbly pork crackling with yoghurt and fennel pollen. It is called a dry snack on the menu and costs $6.50. It is very difficult not to cancel all orders and demand five more of these with five different beers. We need Celsius to remind us that restaurants are better. They can have kitchens full of dreamers working at lightning speed. They know where to source the best ingredients from all over the world if it isn’t available under their noses. Places like Celsius remind us that food can be adventurous and meals can be fun. Celsius serves up an egg cooked at 62 degrees with bacon crumbles for $6.00. You could make that too. If you had a commercial kitchen and wanted to get up a couple of hours before breakfast-time. If you start sprouting formulae based on the egg diameter and dropping words like “ovalbumin” – give it a rest. If you are inquisitive about a “Vegetable patch” of herbs, flowers, raw and pickled vegetables, which comes complete with soil and snails you will find out that, no, the soil isn’t real, but, yes, the tender tempura battered snails are. ($18) The soil is rather moreish, and based on nothing more challenging than coffee. Snails should be on the plate of every savage gardener every day. In among the leaves, flowers and very small vegetables in various dishes are cucumbers young enough to be sporting a flower on the receiving end. Caramelised sweetbreads with yellow and red beetroots, beetroot powder. Pickled seaweed. Turnip flowers. Turnip flowers. And I am leaving ingredients out. A dish that is tuned up for the judges’ show-bench is rounds of quail in prosciutto with foie gras, parsley root and liquorice for only $24.00. The foie gras mousse wrapped in brik pastry with parsley root and liquorice is more complex than it sounds, but I have to leave you something to discover. You could pay the same $24.00 for a steak at your tarted up local; then you have to decide on pepper sauce or Diane sauce for an extra $2.50; and wonder what exactly is sauce Diane in 2010. Wait, where is that packet? Easy on the Cognac there, Chef. Duck with garlic stems. Black fungi. Shelled broad beans. Pea flowers. Tendrils. Duck consommé poured into the duck dish at service. I’ll stop gabbling now. I have seen the culinary light. Celsius is not a place where all the staff have to do is ask: “Garlic bread with that?” The waiting staff are keen and anxious to explain the magic in each dish. The menu is exciting on the palate and plate. I like a bit of gastro-drama. I have met Chef’s secret weapon, Kasim, his brother. I returned for staggeringly good desserts. Four (4) sorts of mulberry in one dessert. Picked that morning. Yoghurt made into brittle croquant. That is scratching the surface. Kasim is the reason for the little flowers with subtle flavours and vegetables with any sort of flavour. We are lucky to have Chef Ayhan Erkok in Adelaide. He has worked at this year’s ruling best restaurant of the year, in the world, that is, Noma, in Copenhagen, as well as Marque and Pier in Sydney. (We nearly lost him to Sydney.) He has also starred in Adelaide at the Manse. He is crawling with talent. A star Adelaide chef has joined Ayhan at Celsius, but it would be gossip if I told you who. The wine list leads off with a page full of nine French bubbles, two from around here, one New Zealander and a lone Spaniard. The whole list is pretty good now; I am sure it will take on the best soon. Try a wine recommended by Sommelier Pauline: Adelaide Review wine judge James Erskine’s beautiful 2010 Jauma Grauburgunder. (500ml-$52.00) Like hanging your palate out in Times Square at night. Flash. Pop. Ripple. Celsius offers an eight-course degustation for $120, or $175 if you let Celsius choose matching wines (I would). If you are sick of cries of imminent planet-wide disaster, go out and have a long lunch at Celsius. Two courses for $30.00, three for $40.00, five course degustation, $50.00. How cheap is that for this? On the other hand, Celsius is decorated in a hard-edge romantic sort of way. Just like you really. So maybe dinner might be best. Celsius Restaurant and Bar 95 – 97 Gouger Street Phone: 8231 6023 celsiusrestaurant.com.au Mon and Sat: 6pm – Late Tue – Fri: 12pm – 2.30pm, 6pm – Late

Galaxy Guides Cooks' Club

2011-03-23T19:52:00.001+10:30

COOKS’ CLUB subscribers advance notice for the cooking classes at

River Cafè with Tina and Neil Jewell, Bread and Wine Restaurant le Quartier Français Franschhoek June 2011. This goes live weekend and there are only 50 places for le Complèt Cochon and 30 for Tina’s bread class so if you wan’t to come make the most of the advance notice.

http://www.galaxyguides.com/
food editor and publisher Galaxy Guides

Market Watch #6 Published #Adelaide Advertiser 23.3.11

2011-03-23T09:24:00.000+10:30

The ACM has 22 fruit and veg stalls, 14 meat/poultry stalls, 10 gourmet stalls, 6 bakeries, 10 cafes and 30 more general food businesses under one roof.

Food quality, price, origin and variety offer the consumer the best food shopping experience in the State. Add history, migration, families and ambience and the market earns its ‘iconic’ status.

Fruit and Veg

Apples take centre stage now. Grannies, Red and Golden Delicious, Galas and Johnnies from $2.99kg. Fuji and Pink Ladies ripen in a few weeks. Stone fruit season ending with late varieties O’Henry and Somerset peaches still here andStall 69 still has baby white peaches from Renmark. Grapes and tomatoes $2 to $6kg are terrific now. Go green with asparagus, beans and broccoli $4kg all perfect.

Meat and Seafood

The full moon fattens the blue swimmer crabs and Smokey Bay oysters are bursting with sea flavour. Both $10.99kg

Centre aisle Con’s sliced cold meat display is tempting. Top-selling line is single-smoked bacon rashers $7.95 kg. The Savvas family food history goes back three generations and they began as traders from Greece to Turkey.

Cheese

Just arrived in Australia, Cazelle de Saint Affrique is a sheep milk white-mould cheese made in the perfect size for two. The straw aroma introduces a nutty and earthy taste. Smelly Cheese $11.95 ea.

Pasta

Freshly made linguini, spaghetti, fettuccini, gnocchi and lasagna sheets $14 kg from Lucia’s. Gluten free also available.

SPECIAL

Tunisian Brick Pastry - Feuilles de brick means ‘leaves for bricks’ and bricks are the fried, filled pastries found in Tunisia, Morocco and the Middle Eastern countries. The paper thin wheat pastry is best used for savoury fillings (see website for recipe) and are quick and easy for a weeknight. Jagger Stall..

Market Watch #5

2011-03-16T21:23:00.000+10:30

From 7.30am its the smell of bacon and coffee that fills the Central Market . No wonder..put your hands together for Barossa Fine Foods, winners of the prestigious ‘Best Bacon In Australia Award 2011” Three generations of gastronomic wizardry, three days of redwood and beechwood cold smoking result in this sweet salty caramel flavored bacon. Outstanding.

Fruit and Veg

Its official, bananas are expensive now selling at $8-$10 kg.

Rain, however has been kind to most vegetables and the grapes, but damaging to beans and celery. Expect higher prices. Tomato, zucchini and cucumber prices are creeping up as the end of season dawns. Capsicums and peppers are hot to trot.

New crop bunch-lines such as swedes, turnips, beetroots and carrots are fresh and snappy.

The supermodel of green leafy vegetables, chicory has also arrived. Look for the darker leaves.

Organic blackberries from Ashton are at McMahons, S47/48. Ruby red blood plums are similar to the satsuma but some say better for jam and available at Thompson Bros, S26/27

Best Asian vegies now are variegated watercress $2 bunch, Perilla, known as japanese basil or shiso add sharpness to fish and tofu dishes. Add garlic chive stalks and flowers to your stir-frys $3, Lien Heng Stall W47

Meat

Meat Braising stretches the dollar further. Use ham hocks at $6kg and bacon bones $3kg from Tony O’Connell, GR47/49. Try the wild rabbits from Penola available at Wild Oz for $9.99 kg. S55

SPECIALS

Sour dough bread from Dough, S45. This artisan bread is made using a 4-year old starting culture fermented using Coonawarra grape skins. Named Le Grande Pain, the bread is made with Rye or white rye flour and sold by the kg

Market Watch #4 Published Advertiser Taste 9.3.11

2011-03-09T10:05:00.000+10:30

March delivers a diverse range of fresh local produce in SA. All the seasons cross paths in these next few weeks offering some of the best produce of the year. Lemons, chillies, limes, peaches and plums are bountiful and now is the time to bottle this great fruit for the coming winter months. Preserving is rewarding so dust off Nana’s Green and Gold Cookery Book.

Fruit and Veg

Word from the wholesalers and the growers is positive. Interstate market demand from SA remains high with apples, potatoes and carrot exports peaking. The not so good news is that small business food retailers across Adelaide are experiencing declining customer numbers. It is timely to remember that the supply of such beautiful local produce rests on continued support for local businesses.

Best buys are avocados, lemons, sweet potatoes, grapes, rockmelons, blueberries, apples, plums and peaches. Grape varieties to look for are red globe, midnight bounty and the seedless Thompsons from Mildura at $2 -$6 kg. Adelaide Hills apples are terrific now and Royal Galas are crunchy, juicy and sweet. The stone-fruit season has about three weeks to run and the Sunburst peaches from Adelaide Hills are still beautiful. The sensational Royal Blue potato is back and best roasted up with sea salt and rosemary.

The banana price-hike is still ahead but this week market prices begin at 99c kg.

After 500 years carrots have been grown to return to their original colour – purple! These are available at Cocos Stall 20/21, $3.50 a bunch.

Brian Swanson’s McLaren Vale Kalamata olives are processed the old-fashioned way, containing no artificial preservatives, colourings or caustic soda and are available from Leo’s at Stall 28/29.

Best Asian vegies now are variegated watercress at $2 bunch and Perilla, known as Japanese basil or shiso. This is used to add sharpness to fish and tofu. Add garlic chive stalks and flowers to your stir-fries at $3.

Next week: New season persimmons and nashi pears are on the way in.

Meat and Seafood

End of season Tassie lobsters are a great price now $77kg and whole flathead $11.99 are the go from Samtass.

Pork belly is all the rage at $7.99 kg - using rock-salt will give you great crackling. Tweet me for Billy Law’s recipe for Crispy Roast Pork Belly – Siew Yuk (烧肉).

Eat Now Food!

Gourmet To Go, Stall 42 - Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free savoury range is unbeatable. Famous for lentil pies and sweet corn and fetta fritters.

SPECIAL

C2 is a hand-made, raw-milk cheese made by Adelaide boy Nick Haddow, now in Tasmania.

Nick operates the Bruny Island Cheese Co., settling at Bruny Island after almost ten years of working with specialist cheese in many different countries around the world. C2 is matured for six months, resulting in a hard crust, cheddar style consistency centre with a nutty yet robust flavour - Smelly Cheese, Stall 44.

Melbourne Press Club Group Chefs visit SA

2011-03-02T10:32:00.000+10:30

A taste of the Murraylands

24 Feb, 2011 10:17 AM

THE best fresh produce from the Murraylands was on show on Tuesday as a group of Melbourne chefs took part in the first agri-tour to visit the region.While on the inaugural Central Market Tour the chefs, from restaurants owned by The Press Club Group, visited three Murraylands producers to get a taste of some of the best products South Australia has to offer.
Tour guide Mark Gleeson said once the first tour was completed it would go onto the Central Market’s website in the hope of drawing chefs from around Australia.
“Small to medium sized growers have a place in the tourism business,” he said.
“Agri-tours is new and we want to start bringing people through the area.
“What we have seen so far today is inspiring.”
On the tour schedule were Murray Bridge based businesses Swanport Harvest and Celcius Restaurant kitchen garden and Rio Vista Olives, in Mypolonga.
Swanport Harvest owner Don Ruggiero said over the past 12 years his business had produced its Stay Crisp lettuce label people have asked to see his crops and production, but this was the first time such a tour had stopped by.

Getting a taste: Visiting some of the region’s fresh produce businesses during an agri-tour of the region are tour guide Mark Gleeson, PM24 chef Sascha Randle, Hellenic Republic chef Travis McCaule, Swanport Harvest owner Dan Ruggiero, Press Club Group chef Johnathon Mackie and St Katherine’s chef Paul Dunlop. Pic: The Murray Valley Standard

The Murray Valley Standard

Adelaide Central Market Watch #3 Published 2/3/11 Advertiser Adelaide

2011-03-02T10:17:00.001+10:30

An SMS ‘banana alert’ from a national banana distributor this week warned that the availability crisis has started - with case prices set to triple. Predictions indicate that unaffected fruit will rise to $10kg as ‘pick-up’ or off the ground bananas now at $2 - $5 kg will run out.

Fruit and Veg

SA tomato stocks are in high demand in QLD and NSW, keeping our local prices up. We still have abundance, with eight tomato varieties available in the market. These include Tella from Murray Bridge, Blush and truss red from the giant indoor farm at Two Wells, also baby green tomatoes for pickling. Vine- ripened are at their best and sauce tomatoes are hard to find. Prices are all under $5kg. Like to grow your own? Plant the late variety Burnley Bounty seedlings available at Prettejohns - Stall 4.

Beetroot, the most versatile of the summer veggies, is brilliant now. Endless uses, but my favourite recipe this summer is Pancar Saltasi, from Claudia Roden. The beets are boiled, chilled, sliced and arranged on top of a platter of thick, plain yoghurt . Drizzle with an olive oil, lemon and garlic dressing.

The sensational Royal Blue potatoes this week can be roasted up with sea salt and rosemary to satisfy all your culinary senses.

Best now are sweet corn at 3 for $3 and seedless grapes $4; Adelaide Hills lemons and limes are 4 for $2. Also the eco-friendly cocktail avocados grown at Ashbourne Hills by Frank Belperio are perfect and a great price at 8 for $2. McMahons Stall 47/48

Look out for the superb HOT SHOT rockmelons from the Riverland - well priced at $1.99kg. Now is the time to indulge in fresh figs. Try the brown turkey, the white Adriatics and the black genoa varieties from House Of Organics Stall 34/35.

Meat and Poultry

Fire up the coals this weekend and BBQ Barossa Fine Foods Italian mild sausages at $11.50kg and duck and veal snags at $13.50kg - Stall 60.

Whole certified organic chooks $14.99 kg from Frank at Vegas - Stall 62.

Eat now food

Try Big Table - Fat Toast Big Brekkie- the complete breakfast of champions, topped with fresh basil pesto $13.50. Stall 39/40

SPECIAL

Visit the new market Stall – A Taste of Marrakech. Owner and spice veteran Anouar’s collection of exotic Moroccan ingredients and spices includes dry harissa, ras el hanout, sumac, preserved lemons and dozens more. Gouger Street central entrance on Stand R19.

Buff Diss Art in the Adelaide Central Market

2011-02-24T11:55:00.000+10:30

Buff Diss is an Australian artist who specializes in creating works with masking tape. A practice of composing large scale, free-hand imagery within urban contexts gives the artist a distinct approach. The temporary nature of the tape and the boldness of his imagery combine in a highly unique form of art.

Several weeks ago, Buff Diss worked with 3 South Australian emerging artists, Jason Ankles, Remi Picheta & Joshua Smith, to create new public artworks in one of Adelaide’s most loved icons, the Adelaide Central Market.
The works weave themselves through the laneways of the Markets, and will be on site until they degrade (1-2 weeks).
Presented by Carclew Youth Arts, with support from the Australian Government through the Australia Council and Adelaide City Council.

All photos by Mick Bradley
For more info contact
Annemarie Kohn

Program Manager, Visual Arts & Digital Media
Carclew Youth Arts

11 Jeffcott St, Kaurna Country, North Adelaide SA 5006

P (08) 8267 5111
F (08) 8239 0689
www.carclew.com.au

Market Watch - Adelaide Central Market #2 Published 23.2.11

2011-02-24T10:59:00.000+10:30

Bananas stay in the headlines this week with the ACM offering low low prices. Local rain is spotting ripe fruit leading to reduced prices but the flavour remains fabulous.

Fruit and Veg
Local is where it’s at this week. Starring Cudlee Creek, famed for its rich history of fruit production and export dating back 100 years. The unsprayed fruit from Mario Ascensio is sensational. Greengage plums, considered one of the finest desert plums, also sugar and black diamond varieties all under $3kg. Stew the weekend away. Mario’s old fashioned red delicious apples, characterised by the distinctive five crowns on the apple base, look the perfect size for school lunches. Stall 56.
From Virginia, season end broccoli is still crisp and zucchinis, both under $4. Hydroponic cos, red oak and mignonettes are all $2.50 and are premium quality. Virginia’s white onion crops are also on the shelves at $2.50kg.

Meat, poultry and seafoodIf you are entertaining this weekend, try Feast Coorong Rib Eye beef (on the bone), or Barossa grain fed Waechtor whole ducks. Corned silverside is making a comeback to coolness at $7.90 kg .
Boston Bay 1kg cryovac bags of live black mussels are scrubbed, de-bearded and ready to cook. Steamed quickly with chilli, onion, black pepper and a little white wine in a big pot makes incredible eating.
Special
Imported fresh black Perigord truffles have such a rich pungent aroma. Don’t be put off by its dark warty appearance, as its secrets are in the flavour. Marco (MM) has simple recipes available and some clever MM Truffle products at Stall 68 (also where Chefs gather for the latest delivery).

Divine Dairy – releases new biodynamic range of soft Cheeses

2011-02-17T20:02:00.000+10:30

Such good cheesemakers..such a great review

Divine Dairy – releases new biodynamic range of soft Cheeses

Kangaroo Island Rare Breeds Farm

2011-02-17T18:52:00.000+10:30

Rare Breeds, Rare Flavours

The Rare Breeds Farm is a unique collection of rare and unusual breeds of domesticated farm animals, many of the breeds kept are on the brink of extinction and not on public displays any where else in the world. Here you will find breeds of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, & Poultry in forms and colours that you never previously knew existed. This is the place you will discover there is no such thing as an ordinary farm animal! William's Rare Breeds Farm is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia, opening its gates to the public; offering guided tours, and that is totally dedicated to rare breeds and does not keep main stream commercial stock.On the tour you will learn about these fascinating animals, their origins, purpose, and why they have become so rare. Even those of farming, veterinarian, and zoological backgrounds will gain a greater insight from this highly informative, personally conducted tour by the owner and curator: William Marshall.

Will and Wessex Saddleback pigs

Kangaroo Island Baudin piglets

Kangaroo Island Baudin pigs

Skilder Persian Lambs

Wessex Saddleback

Wessex Sow with the first litter of 13 piglets

and here they are ...wow what a family

The purpose of the Rare Breeds Farm:

To collect and maintain breeding groups of rare breeds of domesticated farm animals.
Make surplus breeding stock available to others interested in their conservation.
Conduct tours to educate the public about the breeds and their plight.
Instigate research on the various breeds
Collect and freeze Embryos and Semen, as a genetic safe guard against disaster (ie. Disease), & to also prevent genetic drift.
Import and export genetics of rare breeds of domesticated farm animals

for the visitors going to KI..

The Rare Breeds Farm is located 2 km west of Stoke Bay on the North Coast Road, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

Open : Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday

Tour times: 11:30am and 12.30pm

Closed: Tuesday and the entire months of June, July and August

Admission fee Adults: $15 each Children: $10 each (Sorry, No discounts or concessions)

private tours: Most welcome outside of normal opening times, days and months by prior arrangement - a minimum opening fee of $60 applies

and for the chefs.......

Large Black and Wessex Saddleback pigs have their own slight variations in flavour and eating qualities but in general they both produce a meat that is succulent, flavoursome and with crackling to die for. The meat has micro-marbling and over all is darker in colour the main stream commercial pork. It carries some extra fat but that is necessary to baste the meat while it cooks to give flavour and succulence. Further, recent developments in scientific study show that more naturally produced pork can carry health-benefiting Omega-3 fatty acids in the fat so that it is not necessarily the bad thing that some people have claimed. Finally, the fact that the our pigs are mostly black does not mean that you will have black crackling or bacon rind. Like every other pig, the skin on these breeds is the same after slaughter and the removal of the bristles. It is bigotry in the mainstream meat industry that believes otherwise. You may find some black stubble where the bristles have not been fully removed but this should be seen as a sign of quality.

Contact: William Marshall

will@rarebreedsfarm.com.au

Phone +61 8 85592115

New Adelaide Central Market Stall 'A Taste of Marrakech'

2011-02-17T10:31:00.000+10:30

New Stall owner Anouar, from the Farmers Market has today opened "A Taste of Marrakech" at the Central Market. Its a must visit for spices such as sumac, dry harissa, rasel hanout and of course olives , pickles and salts. On the southern end off Gouger Street.

The real deal Perigord Black Truffles

2011-02-17T08:51:00.000+10:30

Marco Marinelli is the Mushroom Man in the Adelaide Central Market. he has just come to work this morning with two sealed boxes..direct from the airport. The boxes contain this weeks delivery of the Black Perigord Truffles flown directly to Adelaide from Marco's French Truffle dealer. The aroma is intense, rich , earthy and inviting. I want them on eggs for breaky .
Enjoy your own truffle festival with the golf ball size at $3500.00kg or start off with a smaller size that Marco will cut for you

"The French black truffle is considered the finest of the edible fungi and has a place in gastronomy alongside saffron, caviar, foie gras and the finest of wines. Widely considered as the jewel of French cooking prized for its unique flavour and intoxicating aroma"

Brillat Sauarin

http://www.mushroomman.com.au/

Market Watch 1- 15/2/11 published Taste, Advertiser, News Limited, SA

2011-02-16T16:45:00.000+10:30

Adelaide’s cool summer has lengthened the stone fruit season but early winter fruit is already on the way.

Premium ripe Arctic Queen white nectarines from Montacute Valley are a standout, bursting with juice. Riverland stone fruit have been hit hard by rain. Expect these prices to rise.
Continuing low prices for bananas reflect supply from NSW rather than Yasi-affected Queensland.
We are seeing the last of the Adelaide Hills Pink Ladys and the first of the new season unwaxed Riverland Royal Galas - crunchy and sweet at $5.99kg.
The season has also been friendly to local vegetable farmers with summer staples like cauliflowers, beetroot, broccoli, capsicum and cucumbers all at top quality and good supply. The capsicum family is showing it’s true colours with sweet bull horn peppers, banana capsicums and soon to arrive pimentos
Try the delicious purple jester potatoes in a salad and the new gold finger variety for the best crunch in a roast.
South East SA lamb farmers are restocking and their highest quality is available now. SA pork the best value buy. Buy it on the bone (under $6kg) for the best roasting flavour.

House of Health, Stall 73 new Adelaide Hills raw unprocessed Jellybush honey is a superb buy at under $9 kg. The Jellybush has a rich caramel palate and anti-microbial benefit.

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