in 2009 one of the highlights was the Tanunda Show. A wonderful example of the preservation of a region’s culinary heritage. The open participation of children in novel cooking events was heartening and their genuine delight at winning a prize was delightful. As for the dahlias stunning and at The Magpie and Stump Café locals with the help of TAFE students turned out a bench mark pie made with locally produced Careme butter puff pastry (commercially available) and fabulous platters or regional and traditional produce.
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The pie was made especially good with just made mash potato. The excellence of the mash was a stark reminder of how dreadful mash potato is in most restaurants where the mistakenly believe it can be kept in a box in the fridge for days on end and reheated without anyone ever noticing that it is days old. Wrong! The aroma of the German beer cake entries almost turned me into a thief. Utterly magical it reinvigorated memories of my time in Austria and the perfume that wafted from the village baker that lured one like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn to feast again. Be warned, next year I am taking a bigger handbag and/or making friends with the brilliant home cooks who made it!
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We were thinking about entering our pickled onions this year, but doubt we could come close to the local competition. Wonderful examples like Ali Cribb’s handmade bread and all that exquisite produce grown with the purpose of showing off!.
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