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Posted by Eat drink and be Kerry on May 25, 2010

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Win $150 of Hot Choccy

Is your mouth watering at the idea of an almost endless supply of premium hot chocolate at your fingertips? Developed by hot chocolate enthusiasts Chris and Sarah Appleford, Hot Choccy is a flavoured chocolate powder with milk, dark, orange, strawberry, caramel, lemon and cappuccino flavours. What makes it different is that Hot Choccy combines healthy ingredients such as 100 percent organic, Fairtrade cacao and 100 percent pure, organic Stevia extract, with delicious pure, Fairtrade Belgian couverture chocolate that is 100 percent sustainably grown. Company owner and founder Chris Appleford was made redundant from his full-time job in the Communications industry, but rather than be disconsolate with the situation, he saw an opportunity. “I used my circumstances to do something that I’d always wanted to do, own my own business,” said Chris. “I love hot chocolate, so I thought why not start my own drinking chocolate powder company? It was a risk given my wife and...

Cook4Me – yes please! + giveaway valued at $349.95

At first I was afraid, I was petrified! Kept thinking I could never let this monster inside my kitchen. But then I spent so many nights wishing my dinner would cook quicker so I could eat earlier and I grew strong and learned how to get along with pressure cookers! It all goes back to five-year-old me sitting at the kitchen table while the old fashioned pressure cooker burbling along on the stove top. In an instant the world changed as the jiggler steam suddenly turned into a loud hissing stream and my mother ran frantically to the stove to fix it. No, it didn’t explode, but I was scared. Flick forward more than a few years and I’ve decided to be as strong at Gloria Gaynor and try pressure cookers again. My first purchase was a Breville Fast Slow Cooker and it did everything I asked of it but then I was offered a Tefal Cook4Me and I’m deep in love. Tefal say this cooker is quite revolutionary and I have to agree. It does just what the name, Cook4Me, says an...

Win breakfast on Matt Moran

Only four sleeps until Matt Moran gives birth to his latest Brisbane baby, Riverbar & Kitchen on the promenade level of Riparian Plaza. It's going to look a bit boaty, a bit Queenslandery and a bit like a tropical garden with big screen televisions and a 20 metre long bar matched with even bigger views of the Story Bridge and Brisbane River. I predict this place will go off on a Friday afternoon but I can see people taking advantage of this location all through the day, especially for the coffee. Matt's partner in the restaurant, Peter Sullivan, says “The aim is for Riverbar & Kitchen to be the ultimate casual one-stop-shop for people to eat, drink, and socialise along the river. Our menus offer options to take people through the week and into the weekend, from morning coffees to after-five drinks and cocktails, and light breakfasts to evening bites of shared plates, grills, and pizzas.” But let's start with that morning cup of coffee as the boys are part...

Out of the box foodies treat and giveaway

Foodies with an insatiable appetite for new discoveries will be delighted by Alex van de Velde’s new Little Box of Yum. Delivered to your door each month, Little Box of Yum contains anything from gourmet sauces and hand-made chocolates to imported speciality foods. The only thing that’s guaranteed is that you won’t find any of the contents in your local supermarket. Inside the box is a Discovery Booklet with background on the product producers and tips on how to use the contents. Ed+bK has four Little Boxes of Yum, each valued at $40 (+$8 postage) to give away at the end of this post. Alex says Little Box of Yum is like being a lazy gourmet - you get the products, the story and the recipes, without needing to lift a finger! “What makes it special, besides the fun of opening up a surprise box full of delicious food, is that we include a Discovery Booklet with the box so you can learn about the food and the people who make it, so it becomes food...

Win 40 macarons delivered to your door!

There's exciting news for macaron lovers. You no longer have a leave home to find your favourite macarons - you can have them delivered to your door.

Top 10 breakfasts in Brisbane

Breakfast out, particularly on the weekend, really seems to start the day off well. Even those non morning people are okay after a good coffee and there's plenty of great conversation happening around town over breakfast. The other good thing about breakfast is that you know you're not going to be spending much more than $20 a person, including your coffee, unless you are really looking for a coffee hit. So here's my 10 top places to enjoy breakfast within the Brisbane area - no particular order. Please share your favourites in the comments section below. Updated December 2014 1. It's only six months since Paddington Deli & Epicure opened its doors in the Paddington Antique Centre building on Latrobe Terrace.Deli owner Antoinette Pease has expanded her original offering with the assistance of key new staff including Stu from Stu's Smoked Sauces and a pastry chef. The shop is now a cave of delights with shelves full of high quality pro...

Win $100 voucher for The Bun Mobile steam buns

The look on K2 and VDiddy's faces as I pulled into the car park was priceless. Had they listened when I told them we were going to enjoy steam buns from a van - no! They just jumped in the car expecting I would take them to a restaurant as usual. The car park, milk crate stools and tables came as a bit of a shock. But once they started eating the buns all was happy. The Bun Mobile is Harold and Christine Fleming's new baby. Harold has been around in Brisbane's food scene for many years and his first venture, Harold's Posh Cafe, was opened in Boundary Street, Spring Hill. The idea for to build a gourmet food truck was sown in Harold and Christine's minds by their chef son Daniel, who read an article in an Inflight magazine about the new generation of food trucks hitting the streets in New York, San Fransisco, and Los Angeles and gaining support and popularity in Sydney and Melbourne. After many hours on the Internet and chats with friends ...

Win over $100 of gourmet fairy floss

Why you can't buy passionfruit flavoured fairy floss? This is the question that started artist Genevieve Loxley on three years of experiments which resulted in Spun Fairy Floss and over 100 flavours of natural fairy floss, with more on the way. Genevieve wonders about a lot of things. One of them was why you cannot buy passionfruit flavoured fairy floss. Another was why you can’t buy natural fairy floss. Once Genevieve latches onto an idea she researches it for days, weeks and months until she knows everything there is to know about it. Her dream of spinning natural fairy floss in amazing flavours began in 2008 but with no money and no experience in making fairy floss, the idea was put on the back-burner. In 2011 the dream was revived and to dip their toes into the magical world of fairy floss, Genevieve and husband Paul purchased a second-hand bench-top fairy floss maker on ebay for $60. After taking 30 frustrating minutes to produce a very small amount of fl...

Gallery One, new at Westfield Carindale

Who would have believed that Westfield Carindale would be the perfect home for a slick new Italian restaurant with a $1.5 million fit out? Brisbane shopping centres are better known for food courts with techno colour sauces and dodgy coffee than full flavoured food but all that has changed with the opening of Gallery One Find Gallery One near the mall entrance to Myer. Enter Tony Di Vincenzo, a first generation Aussie with a passion for great food and shared dining and gun chef Trent Robson, ex Pier Nine, 1899 Enoteca, Belle Epoque and Pescatore with a restaurant concept that could have been lifted from any of Brisbane's innovative restaurant dining precincts. Tony Di Vincenzo and Trent Robson The doors to Gallery One have been open less than two weeks but already locals are loving the authentic Italian cuisine and crisp based pizzas. And what's not to love about six metre long refrigerated cabinet groaning with pasticceria, tortes and patiserrie ready to go...

Riverbar & Kitchen, Riparian Plaza, Brisbane CBD

Come on down by the river, pull up a deck chair and dip your fingers into a bucket of freshly peeled prawns. Filled with casual Queensland and yachty ambiance, Matt Moran's Riverbar & Kitchen is your new one stop for breakfast, lunch and dinner. From a premium Single Blend coffee in the morning to a crab slider and jug of Pimms in the evening, you are covered here. Forget fine dining, Riverbar is about as far away from Aria as you can get. Here it's all about fabulous, easy food that fills you up with fresh flavours that won't leave your pocket empty. And, I dare I say it, the Brisbane River views might even be better. Riverbar is a joint operation from Matt Moran and Peter Sullivan, in partnership with Solotel Hospitality Management. “Since opening ARIA in 2009, we’ve been wowed by this city and know how much it has to offer,” Moran said. “When the boardwalk position became available, it was an ideal opportunity to increase our involvement with Brisbane an...

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