September 14th- 20th 2020 Join fellow food lovers in the Top End for a week long challenge to eat as much local produce in your meals as possible. GULP NT & COOLmob will be partnering with many organisations to help you train for the week and you can sign up to take the challenge on whatever level … Continue reading Top End Local Food Challenge
One fine September day, Leonie Norrington hosted six women from a migrant women's program and other rural residents, to tell them all about her story living for a long time in the rural area, growing edible plants and writing books. The get together was about the ladies also sharing their stories through food, how they … Continue reading Leonie Norrington’s Garden
On a warm September day in Humpty Doo, the air was filled with a smell of smoke and delcious smells from inventive and incredible dishes. A camp oven cook off was underway and the competition was fierce; with 6 teams competing of rural residents, sourcing ingredients from local farmers or their own bush blocks; all … Continue reading Camp Oven Cook Off in Humpty Doo
Lou Benton has had many interesting adventures and culinary experiences since she left New Zealand to explore different parts of the world. She spent 6 years in the UK and 8 years in Thailand, working and travelling. It was in Thailand that she developed her passion for Thai food with its plethora of wonderful street … Continue reading Community Cook – Lou’s Thai Eggplant
Words by Kim Yates The benefit of cooking in Lakeside Drive Community Garden was that Dimity Foster, our local chef, could source a lot of her ingredients straight out of the ground. Within minutes, after a quick rinse, the produce would end up in the heavy cast iron pot. What Dimity didn’t get to gather … Continue reading Community Cook – Dimity’s Garden Ratatouille
Ary grew up in a small town called Pekalongan in Central Java, Indonesia, where local food and farming is a huge and important part of life. She was living with her family when she ended up meeting a young American man, Ben and moving to live with him in East Java. That was 22 years … Continue reading Community Cook – Ary’s Balado Cassava Leaves
We featured this story in Off The Leash's "Community Cooks" The Recipe is also available in the "Eat My Words" community cook book. Ben is a wonderful Bininji man from Murdudjurl country, growing up on his homeland which is now Kakadu. After some years living in Darwin and beyond Ben is back on country and … Continue reading Commuity Cook – Ben’s Star Fruit Salad
Community Cook- A Taste Of Sri Lanka Darwin community cook, Karunika creates fantastic curries with all the care and attention and wisdom that has been passed on for many generations within her family and certainly as is customary throughout Sri Lanka. She migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka in 2009 and is delighted to share … Continue reading Community Cook – Karunika’s Pawpaw Curry
The first ‘not yet humid’ afternoon experience was held at a Darwin-style tropical house in Alawa and the small group enjoyed glasses of soda water with fragrant mint, bobbing bush tucker berries of pinkish lilly pilly fruit and slices of shrill green limes. Pedro, originally from Mexico’s tropical, humid, and jungle-like Chiapas region, shared his … Continue reading Community Cook – Pedro’s Taro Rostis & Salsa
Hidden right in the middle of The Mulch Pit Community Garden over 60 attendees enjoyed a sit down meal under the stars, and were served 5 courses, by volunteers and people who had chosen to get involved with the innovative ticketing system. The tables were decorated with local flowers, provided by a lovely participant and … Continue reading Eat my Words – Tastes and Tales of Territory Cooks
