Taste the Harvest Succes

Entertainment included Cool Train, the Retrosexuals, the Red Hot Roosters, Daniel Bicanski, the Love Gods, Daniel Lebkowski, Charles Bobongie and the Australian Navy Band. We had musical performances by the awe-inspiring acrobat duo PopEyed, the Slipstream Circus, and Simon Astley. There was a celebrity chef demonstration by Phil Piper from Glo Glos. And all in the one day!

Preparing for the Taste

The Taste the Harvest dinner was a great success again! Entertained by Cool Train and with a nice mix of alcoholic beverages we were fed exuisite local produce till we were stuffed to the brim. Almost 150 were present!

Lions were on hand the next morning to help with the cleanup of the Reece High School venue, and other Lions members were at the Mersey Foreshore preparig for Sunday's main event; The Taste of the Harvest.

Bales of local hay are a crucial ingredient of the event, supplied by Harvest Moon.

Plenty of tents and chairs to set up too...

One more sleep!

Popular Spirit

I checked the Spirit today and was pleased to find plenty of admirers!

Locals and visitors alike came down the pier to take photos and read the inscription.

All visitors had nothing but praise for him, I was very pleased!

Taste the Harvest Dinner tickets - last chance!

As we all know next Sunday is Taste The Harvest at the Mersey Foreshore! 

More importantly, the Taste the Harvest Celebration Dinner is on next Friday night at Reece High School at 630pm!! The dinner is a food and wine extravaganza with an agricultural and local produce theme,with the entertainment and drinks all included in the ticket price.

Catering for a wide variety of tastes, past offerings have included potato and vegetable dishes, venison, seafood, beef and lamb. Fresh berries and desserts are a popular repast and wonderful Tasmanian wine, beer, cheeses and quality coffee can accompany all the gourmet foods.

This year it is held at Reece High School, and 170 tickets have already been sold. No walk-ins allowed, you need to buy a ticket! Tickets ($100 per person) are still available from the LJ Hooker office in Devonport (Opposite Coles), just ask to be seated at the City of Devonport Lions table - unless you have other plans! Note the $100 represents EXCELLENT value, value you cannot appreciate till you have experienced the dinner.

Here is the menu - the suggested wines are also included in the $100 :

Course One:
Parmesan wafer Salad
Fresh apples from Spreyton, rocket and Ashgrove wild wasabi cheese, drizzled with fig balsamic glaze and black truffle olive oil, topped with a parmesan wonton wafer crisp.
Suggested accompaniment beverage – Ghost Rock Sauvignon Blanc
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Two:
Petuna Seafood’s Salmon selection plate
Smoked salmon layered on potato & zucchini herb frittatas with dill sour cream. Hot Smoked Salomon roulades filled with Philadelphia cheese, capers, capsicum and fennel, drizzled with local strawberry vinaigrette dressing.
Suggested accompaniment beverage – Barring wood Park Pinot Gris
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Three:
Roma Chicken Grill
Nicholas poultry chicken breast baked on a fresh garden vegetable stack of eggplant, butternut pumpkin, capsicum, local brocolini and Roma tomatoes, sprinkled with mozzarella cheese and served with fresh summer salsa.
Suggested accompaniment beverage – Hillwood Vineyard Pinot Noir
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Four:
Food Design’s Spicy Beef Fillet
Tasmanian Eye Fillet Beef Medallions Char-Grilled (medium), sliced and layered upon Steamed snow peas, peppers and Jasmine rice, accompanied with a spicy coriander (cilantro) relish and garnished with chiffonnade carrot and beetroot.

Suggested accompaniment beverage – Velo Wines Cabaret Sauvignon
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Five:
Molten Chocolate Pudding Cakes
Anvers chocolate molten lava cakes, served warm with a warm mocha espresso shot and garnished with fresh Christmas hills raspberries and King Island double cream.
Suggested accompaniment beverage – Tamar Ridge Botrytis Riesling

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Devonport Celebrates the Spirit of the Sea

Workers put the Spirit of the Sea sculpture into place on the Devonport foreshore. (ABC News: Michael Brooks)

The above photo came from the ABC website <here >.

The Labor Member for Braddon, Brenton Best today launched the Spirit of the Sea at the mouth of the Mersey River in Devonport.  Read all about it in the Tasmanian Government Media Release <here >.