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- Jill Dyson,
- Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia
- Click on the link to read Jill's latest blog post. Jill has been running FoodPath in the Southern Highlands of NSW with her partner Nick since April 2010. They have grown the business to a level where they now include a range of activities including tours, workshops and collaboration with others (cooking schools, wineries, etc). During the past 10 years Jill and Nick have got to know the local producers and continue to promote and support these local small businesses. They have organised and run many food related activities including taste education workshops and producer visits. It was after they organised a successful tour for a group of chefs from some of the best restaurants in Sydney that they realised they could turn their interest into a business - and this led to the setting up of FoodPath - Culinary Tours with a Difference. Now Jill and Nick are working closely with Southern Highlands Tourism and Wingecarribee Council to help raise the profile of their area as a food destination where everyone will benefit - tourists, local consumers and the producers themselves.
Showing posts with label Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
On Tues 20 Nov FoodPath is taking the last two tours for 2012 to the famous Mushroom Tunnel in Mittagong.
Three spaces are available @ $35.
Ring Southern Highlands Tourism on 4871 2888 to book.
FoodPath has been running these tours for SH Tourism for the past two years and they are a unique opportunity to see through the tunnel and to hear about this fascinating business.
Hidden in this old disused railway tunnel built in 1866 are a range of exotic mushrooms grown by Dr Noel Arrold, Microbiologist. Noel describes the environment inside the tunnel with a constant 16o temperature and 80% humidity as resembling a forest floor in the cool climate forest of Korea, Japan and China - so it is a natural environment for these mushrooms to grow.
If you can't make it this time, the dates for next year (2013) are:
Three spaces are available @ $35.
Ring Southern Highlands Tourism on 4871 2888 to book.
FoodPath has been running these tours for SH Tourism for the past two years and they are a unique opportunity to see through the tunnel and to hear about this fascinating business.
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- Tues 29 Oct
Sunday, September 11, 2011
What a busy week!
First we have had a group of 17 women come on a customised tour with us while their partners played golf. That was a new itinerary which was a great success and we will definitely be repeating!
We ran TWO Farmers Market Tours yesterday at Bowral Public School! One was as part of a Market to Table Tour and was followed by a cooking class with Patricia from the Blue Bowl Cooking School and a long table lunch.
Patricia bought the ingredients at the market and these included free range duck, minced free range pork, organic shallots and other vegies, blood oranges, rhubarb and prawns (up from Wollongong).
The meal had an Asian theme and the group made -
We were all given a book with the recipes and some useful information about the produce - AND we got to take the apron home!
Thanks Patricia!
I am looking forward to the next one which is on Sat 8 Oct. Contact us from the website for bookings or more info www.foodpath.com.au.
The website for Patricia at the Blue Bowl Cooking School is www.bluebowl.com.au
First we have had a group of 17 women come on a customised tour with us while their partners played golf. That was a new itinerary which was a great success and we will definitely be repeating!
We ran TWO Farmers Market Tours yesterday at Bowral Public School! One was as part of a Market to Table Tour and was followed by a cooking class with Patricia from the Blue Bowl Cooking School and a long table lunch.
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| Thirlmere Poultry has been going for over 40 years and John and Jeanie represent them at the Bowral market |
Patricia bought the ingredients at the market and these included free range duck, minced free range pork, organic shallots and other vegies, blood oranges, rhubarb and prawns (up from Wollongong).
The meal had an Asian theme and the group made -
- Steamed Prawn Dumplings with the pork and prawn, with black vinegar dressing
- Mushroom Fried Rice using the shiitake, oyster and swiss brown mushrooms from the Mittagong mushroom tunnel (we have a tour to the tunnel scheduled for Tues 25 Oct)
- Szechuan Duck which was so tender and delicious
- Blood Orange Sorbet served with rhubarb which had been cooked in the juice of the oranges.
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| Enjoying the fruits of their labour the group lingered over lunch at Fitzroy Inn. Great to see the men cooking! |
We were all given a book with the recipes and some useful information about the produce - AND we got to take the apron home!
Thanks Patricia!
I am looking forward to the next one which is on Sat 8 Oct. Contact us from the website for bookings or more info www.foodpath.com.au.
The website for Patricia at the Blue Bowl Cooking School is www.bluebowl.com.au
Friday, August 5, 2011
Our two Mushroom Tunnel Tours last Tues 6 Aug 2011 were a great success!
You might wonder what there is to see on such a tour but let me tell you that the tunnel itself is very interesting, as is the history of the tunnel and of this business Li Sun Mushrooms.
It is quite a long walk - 500 metres each way but we take it at a gentle pace.
Noel Arrold, the business owner and Micro Biologist is an interesting and funny man and you will be fascinated to hear him talk about the different types of Asian and exotic mushrooms that he grows in both his laboratory and the tunnel.
A variety of colours and shapes, some slimy like these Japanese mushrooms that are great in soups.
If they are not picked they just grow bigger and bigger like this bunch!
Woody ear looks different from the others and is crunchy in texture.
Noel's mushrooms can be purchased at the Bowral Market at Bowral Primary School on the 2nd Sat of the month and at many other outlets in the Southern Highlands and beyond. Just look for the Li-Sun Mushroom label.
Some lucky people got to take the big bunches home and had great plans for how they would cook them.
The next Mushroom Tunnel Tours are on Tues 25 Oct at 10am and 11.30am. Get your booking in now to secure a place - ring Tourism Southern Highlands on 4871 2888. Price: $35 per person
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
We are very excited because Noel Arrold, Micro-biologist and business owner of Li-Sun Mushrooms has agreed to us taking a tour to the famous Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel on Tues 2 Aug 2011!
These tours are very popular and there is limited access to them - so we are very pleased to announce three dates for these tours - Aug 2, Oct 25 and Jan 10, 2012.
We will be taking a bus from the Visitors Information Centre in Mittagong where you can leave your car. Noel will meet us at the tunnel entrance and tell us about his business. We will walk and talk all the way up the 500 metre disused railway tunnel, observing and hearing about the exotic mushrooms along the way - in a variety of shapes and colours.
Everyone receives a punnet of mushrooms to take away and some tips on how to cook them. If you haven't been before, this is an opportunity not to be missed!
To book ring Tourism Southern Highlands on 4871 2888.
These tours are very popular and there is limited access to them - so we are very pleased to announce three dates for these tours - Aug 2, Oct 25 and Jan 10, 2012.
We will be taking a bus from the Visitors Information Centre in Mittagong where you can leave your car. Noel will meet us at the tunnel entrance and tell us about his business. We will walk and talk all the way up the 500 metre disused railway tunnel, observing and hearing about the exotic mushrooms along the way - in a variety of shapes and colours.
Everyone receives a punnet of mushrooms to take away and some tips on how to cook them. If you haven't been before, this is an opportunity not to be missed!
To book ring Tourism Southern Highlands on 4871 2888.
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