Regional Food Festival

Hello!!
Last weekend, 21-22 July, was the Regional Food Festival at Southbank. As we all know how much I love food, I couldn't say no to it! Besides it was free. As the name suggests, there were heaps of local produces such as: fruits, vegetables, meats, cheese, olives, oils, chutney, chocolate, wines, dips, sauces...so much stuff! And we got to sample quite a few of them which is always the best part haha! So here are some of the things I got to try.

We got to munch on some juicy carrots, they were really sweet. Normally I don't like eating raw carrots, but this I loved. I thought about going back to get some more haha!

There were some sausages and some garlic and rosemary potatoes which were cooked to perfection.

 

Can't say no to some German sausages with sauerkraut.

There was also a seafood stand, where you get a couple of pieces of fried fish for about $5.

The Pauls Milk stand were giving out flavoured milk for a coin donation. They had Malt/Chocolate, Banana and Ice Coffee. They were very yum, might be a bit sweet for some people but you can always add more milk to them. I hope they sell them in supermarkets...I should go check that out.

 

This was interesting, they had some wheelbarrows with lots of herbs in them. The T-licious stand were giving out cups and what you do is pick the herbs you like and brew your own tea by adding some hot water. I picked lots of lemon myrtle, peppermint, apple mint, lemon sage, lemongrass and some other stuff. It tasted pretty good. Although I'm not sure if that's what gave me a bit of a stomach ache later...

The last thing I tried was some Mammino Homemade Ice Cream. We got Jaffa and Macadamia. I love this flavour combination! You can either pull them out of the cup and eat it on a stick or dig in with a couple of spoons. They have heaps of other delicious flavours.

I also saw Tregan and Jules from this year's Masterchef. Apparently Amina was there too but I didn't get to see her :(

At the end of the day I was pretty happy and satisfied with the food festival. It was kind of like the Good Food and Wine show but outdoors and free. So next year when it comes around again, I definitely recommend you to try it!

If you went this year, what your favourite thing that you sampled or bought?

Happy eating!
Joanne :)