Good Food Month at Taste Gourmet

Australian Good Food Month at Taste Gourmet! Taste the best!

Over the coming weeks, we'll be celebrating the achievemnets of Australia’s leading gourmet food makers, the people and the products created with passion and a love of good food.
These products are mainly hand made, with premium ingredients, often sourced from nearby farms and producers.
Most of all, our Australian Regional Food Month is about raising the profile of our farmers and food handlers, the growers who battle the rain, hail or heat to harvest their crops or grow their stock, or the wonderful cooks and chefs that spin their magic, creating tasty delicacies of outstanding quality.
These products are available year round on our shelves and every month we search the country for new and innovative products to bring you. Find them on the shelves and for tasting throughout September & October.
We’ve also interviewed some of our favourite producers so you can get to know them a little better, hear about their products and enjoy their passion!
Over the coming weeks, we'll be featuring profiles on:

Alpine Berry Farms Jams and Marmalades - Mittagong, NSW. Established in 2002 and now winners of 42 awards, the family that grows the berries makes this stunning range of full fruit jams and marmalades.
Hog Bay Apairies, Kangaroo Island, SA. We believe these are the best honeys in Australia; we’ve loved them for years. A range of five gourmet seasonal pure honeys, including creamed honey. This is unique organic honey from the Ligurian bee, only from Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Doodles Creek Dressings, Bowral, NSW. From the Southern Highlands comes Sarah Ross’s much sought after range of dressings, mayonnaise, and aiolis. Doodles Creek products are French in style and less sweet than Australian mayonnaises, naturally thickened with egg yolks.
Nicholson Fine Foods - Yamba, NSW. From the foothills of Yamba comes these Australian chef made native food products and their signature range of Essence of Hibiscus, glorious hibiscus flowers in syrup. SEE MORE INSIDE
Pastabilities Pasta - Marrackville, NSW. Producing the best fresh pasta in Australia, this passionate Marrickville family supply our fresh fettuccine and spaghetti, and a range of gourmet frozen ravioli and includes filling such as duck, prawns, veal and caramelised beef.
AC Butchery - Leichhardt, NSW. This Leichhardt based butchery specialises in gourmet sausages and you’ll find their most popular varieties, in our freezer. Made with the best premium ingredients, sausage will never taste the same again. They also have their own range of verjuice, which we now have in stock!
Simply the Best Small Goods - Gladesville, NSW. The name says it all, these multi award winning producers supply our ham, pastrami, prosciutto, pancetta, and more. Simply the Best maximise the use of natural ingredients to produce the best quality products. Best of all is the ham on the bone, an award winner. Made from the finest Australian pork, it has a lasting smoky flavour with a gorgeous light, moist texture. Hand carved by us!
Serendipity Ice-creams & Sorbets, Marrickville, NSW
An another award winning gourmet producer, creating glorious rich ice-creams and silky smooth sorbets hand made in dozens of flavours. SEE MORE INSIDE
Bellata Gold Pasta - Tamworth, NSW. This farm family grows the durum wheat, mills the flour and makes the pasta - they call in from paddock to plate and it is the best dried pasta in Australian today. In a stunning range of flavours, an essential for the pantry.
There are many other regional foods on the shelves, and we will feature these over coming months. In the meantime, look out for
Maggie Beer Pastes, Preserved Lemon and Verjuice - South Australia
Joseph Olive Oil - South Australia
Gwydir Grove Infused Olive Oils - Port Macquarie
Lotus & Ming Yum Cha, Sydney,
Goan Cuisine Curries, Pickles, Chutneys and Pastes - Perth WA

We'll be featuringing Gourmet Food Producer profiles in this blog over the coming weeks!

Celebrating our Central Coast & Region Gourmet Food Producers!

These are the best of the best - our selections as the leading local Central Coast and Hunter producers. Supporting our local producers is very important. It helps the local economy, supports local jobs, supports local farmers and helps create jobs for us and our kids. It also gives us a chance to show what we can do here on the Coast.
And it helps the environment - the less kilometres our food has to travel to get to us, the less greenhouse gas are produced in transporting it to us. (Did you know that on average, most of our food travels 1500km to get to us?)
Taste Gourmet, East Gosford, NSW- This is our own Taste Gourmet hand made range of gourmet jams, marmalades, mustards, sauces, desserts, chutneys, relishes, pickles and more, all made in small batches with fresh and natural ingredients. There are more than 200 quality products, each made with love and are to a traditional recipe. Amongst our most popular products are the Roasted Red Capsicum & Chilli Jam, Blood Orange and Cointreau Marmalade, Classic Red Tomato Relish & Caramelised Onion Jam
Binnorie Fairy Cheeses, Pokolbin, NSW - From Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley, we stock two of our most popular cheeses. Created by award winning cheese maker Simon Gough, the Binnorie Dairy makes Labna, a Mediterranean yoghurt-based cheese that has been infused with chilli and rosemary and the "Gold Medal" Marinated Fetta, with distinctive characters unavailable outside the region.
Sweet As (Chocolates), Central Coast, NSW- Wendy Sue Mitchell is the chocoholic behind Sweet As, a collection of the best hand made Coverture chocolates and now available in store. Wendy Sue also creates our mouth watering Gourmet Rocky Road. We currently feature about six flavours of hand made truffles and great shortbread.
Fuchs Estate, Cessnock, NSW - Heading further afield in the region, the Hunter Valley's Fuchs Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oils are amongst Australia’s best. Created by chef John McGain, we stock the Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oils, as well as flavoured extra virgin oils - Garlic, Lime, Lemon, Chilli, Pepper, & Mandarin. We also have Fuch’s Caramelised Balsamic.

We feature all these producers products in our Gourmet Grocer selection, at our food store and cafe in East Gosford, NSW Australia.