A few years ago now, well two years, back in 2015, though it feels a lot longer, I was in a cooking competition called the WA Signature Dish, run by the Buy West Eat Best campaign. There were four regions within the state, Peel, Gascoyne, Swan Valley and Kimberley with designated hero ingredients and you […]

Who loves cooking? Who loves WA? I know I do, you too? If you do then now is your time to shine with the second round of the Buy West Eat Best’s WA Signature Dish competition. Get in the kitchen, aprons on and put our state on a plate!   Photo Credit: Peter Maloney, DAFWA This year […]

They came, they saw, they cooked up a storm! The four eager finalists from Perth and Surrounds, Great Southern, Southern Forrests and the Gascoyne gathered at the Perth Cultural Centre on Monday, WA Day for the Buy West Eat Best’s inaugural WA’s Signature Dish competition. There was a more than decent crowd in attendance, listening […]

It’s now only 11 sleeps til the big #WASignatureDish final to be held at the Perth Cultural Centre on Monday, June 2nd as part of the WA Day Celebrations. Representing the Great Southern after emerging victorious from the regional final is Clare King. Clare won with her hero ingredient of Butterfield Beef with a dish she called ‘Celebration […]

The grand final for the WA Signature Dish competition is fast approaching – roll on Monday, June 2nd! Each of the four regions has a special guest chef to help guide the regional winners to the final cook off. In the Great Southern, the chef is Silas Misah – owner and head chef of Pepper & Salt Restaurant […]

On Monday morning in the beautiful town of Denmark four lovely ladies gathered to cook up a storm at Pepper & Salt Restaurant at Forest Hill Winery. They were battling it out to take the coveted title of regional winner for the Great Southern Region for their chance to progress to the big final on WA […]

Monday, April 28th is a very exciting day for four lovely ladies from WA. It’s the regional final for the WA Signature Dish Competition for the beautiful Great Southern region and it will be held at Pepper & Salt Restaurant at Forest Hill Vineyard in Denmark. The Great Southern region covers a 39,007km section of the South […]

West Australian lamb is amazing. I’ve cooked up lamb chops and cutlets many a time, but recently I decided it was time for my lamb roasting debut. I’d roasted pork, beef and chook before but never gotten around to lamb – clearly an oversight! But with my family coming around for lunch recently it was […]

Mt Barker Free Range Chickens are a happy bunch of chooks ‘free to do whatever they like, wherever they please’. Sounds like quite the pleasant and stress free life for a chicken. As soon as these chicks hit three weeks old they are free to roam the farm during the day – scratching in the grass, […]