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Celebrity Chef Matt Moran Autographs His Cookbook
The annual Brisbane Good Food And Wine Show began today at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will continue until Sunday.
Celebrity chefs, Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris, Matt Moran, Tobie Puttock as well as Ben O'Donoghue and Alastair McLeod will be demonstrating their talent. After their shows they will be signing their latest books, which are available at the Angus and Robertson stand.
The menu in the Wild Oats Restaurant will include samples of Alastair McLeods peppered beef salad, Gary Mehigans Vietnamese chicken coleslaw, Matt Morans tempura prawns and Toby Puttocks caramelised brioche with forest berries.
Celebrity Chef Ben O'Donoghue Demonstrating
With over a hundred exhibitors from the Australian Blueberry Growers Association to the Zema Estate winery, there is something for every taste. Queensland's award winning Mammino Gourmet Ice-Cream has a range of unique fruit and liquor flavours, as well as their famous Red Dirt ice-cream
The luxuriant products from The Really Stuffed Olive Co include Caramelised Balsamic and White Vinegars, Sweet Pomegranate Balsamic, Seasoned Black Olives, and Egyptian Dukkah.
Tassal Quick & Healthy Tasmanian Salmon will be running salmon master classes every 15 minutes for small audiences. The Tassal master chefs share samples, and their tips on how to prepare simple salmon dishes.
Take your wine appreciation to the next level with various wine sampling sessions throughout the weekend including the Reidel Masterclass. This popular class is back with a session on Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. Your ticket includes a set of four Vitis glasses valued at $299.95.
General admission costs $20 for adults and $16 for kids,and tickets are available from ticketek.
An F1-11 Dumps And Burns Jet Fuel
The Gold Coast Super GP is a fumefest foisted on the local residents without regard for their wellbeing, by a government more intent on its financial health.
The Roulettes were doing fly-bys trailing smoke, helicopters were landing and taking off in the middle of the track precinct, and the F1-11s were doing dump and burns, which means dumping fuel and burning it.
Burning Rubber At The SuperGP
Over four days the racing cars burnt thousands of litres of high octane fuel, producing tones of noxious gas, while novelty vehicles burnt rubber until the crowd disappeared in a pall of smoke.
In spite of all this excessive consumption of non renewable resources, smokers were singled out for burning a bit of dried vegetation. Tobacco is a legal drug, yet smokers were displaced to designated areas.
Corralled beside the footpaths, without shade in some areas, smokers were not allowed to eat, drink or sit, and could not see the track. Environmental Health officers could issue $200 on the spot fines to anyone smoking outside these tiny fenced areas.
Racing cars and burnouts on public roads, low flying aircraft, consumption of liquor in public places and public nudity were all permitted. What is normally illegal is allowed yet smoking outdoors is outlawed.
Meanwhile Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and key ministers, including Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Kate Jones, are gearing up for next weeks Queensland Climate Summit.
Co-organised by The Climate Group and the Queensland Government, the summit is designed to discuss the emerging low carbon economy.
The incongruity did not escape Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke.
Where Was Climate Change And Sustainability Minister Kate Jones?
I think weve burnt more carbon emissions in the past week that in the rest of the year - its phenomenal, he said.
If Queensland Health were serious about health they would object to the event being held on public streets in the first place, and if the Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability was serious about sustainability, she would object too.
The circus that is the Gold Coast Super GP has come and gone leaving the city to clean up the mess and restore normal traffic flow.
After the initial naming rights sponsor, Nitro Energy Drinks went insolvent, Nikkon stepped in, although much of the official merchandise still bore the Nitro moniker.
At the eleventh hour the main event, the Formula A1 cars, were a no show leaving Queensland Sport Minister Phil Reeves, Event Chairman Terry Macenroth and SuperGP General Manager Greg Hooton with egg on their faces.
In the end the V8 Supercar Series, more popular amongst the domestic audience, stole the show again, adding additional races to fill up the program.
V8 Supercar driver Mark Winterbottom, driverof the #5 Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon, was in the Nikon SuperGP pit lane this morning to reflect upon his weekends success on the Surfers Paradise streets.
Winterbottom, who claimed two prized Nikon SuperGP surfboards across the weekend despite battling a glandular illness for the past week, said the win was just the lift he needed.
The Gold Coast track is a real drivers track, it rewards bravery and disciplines stupidity.
If you ask any driver in the field Im sure theyll all agree that this track rates very highly on their list of favourites - it is one of the tracks we all enjoy.
This years format I believe worked well, but it is up to the powers to be to decide what format next years event will take. From a personal point of view I really didnt pay too much attention to the Indy Cars when they were here.
The racing was pretty fierce over the weekend and Im sure that everyone who was here or watching on tv certainly enjoyed the action.
I think this years crowd was very thick with motorsport enthusiasts, where in the past there was a large proportion of people who were simply here to party and not that interested in the racing.
The 2009 Nikon SuperGP featured four 150km V8 Supercar races as well as the Pirtek Australian Legends and a bumper on and off track entertainment program, plus support racing from the Haymans Electrical Mini Challenge, Strategic Airlines Formula Ford and the Aussie Racing Cars.
Over 205,000 people visited the event across the four days of October 22-25, and in 2010 the event will celebrate its 20th year.
A remote door locking device has acted as a detonator, destroying a plumbers van in a massive explosion in suburban Melbourne today.
An oxy-acetylene gas bottle, which was stored in a cabinet in the new VW transporter van was apparently leaking throughout the night
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Georges Paragon At Southport
Georges Paragon Seafood Restaurant has been an institution in Sanctuary Cove for over twenty years. Now George Tassis has four of a kind with three new additions at Southport, Kingscliff and Mt Tambourine.
Georges Paragon is famous for introducing half price lunches. The full price menu is comparative to other fine dining restaurants, so the lunchtime discount is genuine
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The following recipe and step by step pictures demonstrates a sweet and creamy pimento sauce. It is not hot and has a delightful colour. I have used miniature capsicums of assorted colours from my garden, but a red capsicum from the supermarket is ideal.
This recipe can be made gluten free by using arrowroot flour for thickening or relying on the natural thickening of the cream.
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The annual Australian University games are being held on the Gold Coast from Sunday 27th September until today, and Olympic silver medallist Sally McLellan gave up her time to help out future elite athletes at the Games.
Local universities continued to do well yesterday, dominating the netball, volleyball and football. Griffith University was sitting at the top of its pool in division 2 AFL, men's division 1 basketball, men division 1 beach volleyball, women's division 2 volleyball, mixed division 2 netball, women's tennis, men's division 1 touch football and women's division 1 touch football
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September 22nd 2009 04:01
Chocolate pastry can be made simply by adding two tablespoons of cocoa powder to the flour before mixing up a standard pastry recipe. In the following recipe, with step by step pictures, I use chocolate pastry combined with an almond paste called frangipane, to make a nutritious and delicious desert
Ingredients
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September 13th 2009 03:24
Australia's Emma Moffatt overcame injury worries to win the 2009 Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship, comprising a 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run. Moffat beat her main rival, Lisa Norden from Sweden, in a sprint finish to cross the line in a time of 1:59:14 as she won the Series Grand Final on Australia's Gold Coast.
Moffatt entered the final event of the year just 120 points ahead of Norden knowing that a top two finish would ensure her the world title, however had been suffering with a foot injury in the lead up to the race. Having made the front cycle pack of seven, along with the Swede, the championship leaders fought out a tough 10km run as they pushed each other to the line before Moffatt came out on top. Norden's second place sealed Sweden's first senior elite triathlon world championship medal. Despite finishing down in eighth, New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt ensured that she did enough to secure world championship bronze
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Beef Wellington is a whole eye fillet or steak topped with a mushroom mixture, then wrapped in puff pastry and baked. Some recipes include chicken liver pate or a more complex mushroom duxelle, but this recipe with step by step pics is a basic version.
The origin of the dish known as Beef Wellington is obscured by time. Some say it is named after the first Duke of Wellington, while others maintain it is a variation of the French filet de boeuf en croute.
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