good food affare 2008

21 November 2008, 22:44



come one come all to the Good Food Affare! The Good Food Affare is three days of heaven for food lovers- a growers market with restaurants and cafes and Australia’s most celebrated chefs and cooks live on stage and much more! Free admission! Where: Castle Hill Showground, entry via Doran Drive, off Carrington Rd, Castle Hill. Parking on-site $10 When: Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd November 2007, 9am-6pm edit: the good food affare is on rain, hail or shine!


bring your green enviro bags from home or pick some up on the day


come early and score a free bacon and egg burger from edmundi sponsored by 2UE. but yeah seriously dudes come as early as possible because parking was full by 10.30am today (fri) and people (me) run out of stock heh


theres about 5 marquees set up each with different food stuffs- this is where mine is! with the booze!


mememe! come by my biscuit tree stall and say the magical words of i read your blog and ill give you a free gingerbread man! but only on saturday between 9am and 3pm because the reinforcements arrive and i go home heh


thirsty? this store sells honey energy drinks mmm energy drinks…


good food affare’s star attraction: skye gyngell’s cafe


but sadly the high tea is completely booked out… not sure about the lunch tho but how pretty is the area?


want to wander the stalls with me? meet the super charming angus beef man!


who is super generous with his samples heh yes i had a little nibble before taking the photo because it smelled sooo good


shrooms! (bowb: mushroom mushroom mushroom)


organic fruit and veg


and say a giant hello to my friends peter and andrew (hiding) from the maybole pantry! have a taste of their awesome jams they are seriously addictive and are tops on scones


fudge! nom nom


freshly made pastas


my fav honey- malfroy’s gold. i buy the jars of honey with the piece of honeycomb inside mmm sweeeeet


byron bay truffle co has some amazing chocolates


my picks are the green apple vodka and the tequila heh heh not even 10am and im onto the liquor! the green apple vodka is sublime =P


and after a hard days work of shopping why not have a rest in the beautiful cafe or have a wander thru the cwa tea rooms. hope you guys can come visit me!

 

 

  1. I wish I could come and say hi, but I have so much college work to do this weekend! Thanks for the great photos though, looks like it would be a wonderful day out!

    — Lisa    Nov 21, 10:46 PM    #

  2. I have to say much jealousy over here because we don’t really have these lovely affairs in Perth >_<

    — jean    Nov 21, 11:12 PM    #

  3. Aww I’m working. Everything looks so good though!

    — Y    Nov 21, 11:34 PM    #

  4. Its a great, organizing such fairs is good, atleast through this fairs we have the opportunity of having organic food.

    Thanks for posting

    — Culinary Dictionary    Nov 22, 12:26 AM    #

  5. wow! this looks great! i will definitely go if i get the chance!!

    — K    Nov 22, 02:03 AM    #

  6. really wanna go but too far…….T_T

    — Bean sprout    Nov 22, 12:13 PM    #

  7. Hey Suze! It was good to meet you in person at the good food affare :) (hehe I was the indecisive one who couldn’t decide between the white choc & cranberry or the pistachio & cranberry shortbread….)

    — mel    Nov 22, 05:33 PM    #

  8. Hey Suze good to finally meet you and your goodies (oh and your boy). Love the photos!

    Today was crazy – all windswept hair, dust storms and wind chill!

    Going to go enjoy all the shortbread now (even though I’m still thinking about your date and walnut biscotti!).

    :)

    — Karen L    Nov 22, 05:51 PM    #

  9. Thanks for your wonderful information…

    — Angel    Nov 22, 06:34 PM    #

  10. thanks for the mushies! :) i made an enormous plate of mushrooms on toast the other day, but mine were all bruised from sitting in the bin at woolies. those ones look so pristine. nyup nyup.

    — bowb    Nov 23, 12:20 AM    #

  11. Great information! =) i’m going today to check it out.

    — Joey    Nov 23, 10:03 AM    #

  12. i was going to this but didnt know what to expect and the $10 parking fee, that put me off!! Just trying to steal more money off you……..so was it still worth going despite not being able to have high tea?

    — sydneyguyrojoe    Nov 23, 12:35 PM    #

  13. Thanks for the gingerbread-it was deeeelish!

    — Lorraine E    Nov 23, 01:41 PM    #

  14. Ooo sad I couldn’t make it this weekend (airport hell), looks fun! Will have to visit you soon though:)

    — Miss Honey    Nov 23, 04:26 PM    #

  15. Mmmmmm It was good to peruse around and shop but there should have been more food food stalls haha was hungryy >_< But good to see you again :) (1 bag down already hee hee!)

    — FFichiban    Nov 23, 05:53 PM    #

  16. The food was lovely but the organisation was terrible. I went on Sunday and the number of people there made it really difficult to try the foods and buy them from the producers. They could have managed the crowds much better. Something to remember next year! Don’t worry about missing out on the High Tea – it was very, very disappointing and certainly not what you would expect from an accomplished chef. More a money making effort!

    — Miss Japan    Nov 24, 09:48 AM    #

  17. i was in the area – the traffic was terrible! but it looked like everyone still wanted to get in there, even in the rain. hope you had a great response :)

    — tracey    Nov 24, 12:01 PM    #

  18. should have gone on Friday instead, the weather looked so much better than when we went on Saturday ><; the weather was the kind that deterred you from going out and entice you to hide underneath blankets all day .. ! Was nice to finally meet you Suze :)

    — D    Nov 25, 04:42 PM    #

  19. looks great. i didn’t have time to come up this year. hopefully next year if they have it again. it’s my kind of foodie event for sure.

    s :-)

    — Simon Food Favourites    Nov 25, 06:48 PM    #

  20. lisa: it was awesome! im pretty sure theyll do it again next year and ill let everyone know earlier about it
    jean: heh you could always come for a visit =)
    y: you always work on the weekends hey? i still smile at your description of you rocking to guns and roses =P
    culinary dictionary: yeah its pretty awesome i love it!
    k: did you make it? it was crazy windy on sat!
    bean sprout: yeah its weird they put it out in the ‘burbs but still a truckload of ppl came! dont think they had enough parking tho heh
    mel: hey dude good to meet ya! cranberry & pistachio is my fav with white choc & cranberry a close second heh
    karen: good to meet ya too dude! lol the stockpile of biscotti disappeared so fast we werent prepared for the gfa being a success haha
    angel: no worries =)
    bowb: hows the kid? has she been asking for MORE chocolate MORE!? are ya coming this weekend?
    joey: did you end up going? sunday was not as packed as sat thankfully
    sydneyguyrojoe: lol the money actually went to the rotary club so not really stealing since no admission fee.. also there was street parking which was like 2mins away hehe
    lorraine: good to see ya dude! lol i ended up running outta gingerbread men!
    miss honey: ah not to worry im sure ill meet ya soon =P
    ffichiban: good to see ya too! yeah i was so hungry that day i had to send noods out to buy maccas lol i felt so guilty eating maccas at a gourmet market!
    miss japan: heh just as well you didnt go on sat then cos it was crazy packed! shame about the high tea i had serious cravings for scones all weekend!
    tracey: yeah when my reinforcements arrived so i could go back and bake and bring more biscuits i had a lot of trouble getting back into the showground lol hectic!
    d: friday was nice and sunny hehe good to meet ya too! are you coming to zumbos this weekend?
    simon food favourites: im pretty sure itll def be back next year and hopefully with better parking arrangements and better weather =P

    — chocolatesuze    Nov 25, 11:04 PM    #

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