Morish Nuts

Fighting the wind and rain did not leave much time to snap photos (Moses would have been at home parting the waters, I'm sure) but the weekend was a good one despite the less desirable weather. I have learned that truffle aficionados are a hardy bunch, even this wild weather did not discourage them.

We were 'lucky' enough to have a water feature in front of our site, and the kids certainly had a ball sloshing and sploshing with determination through this minor obstacle on route to dog expo, searching AND finding truffles!


Our new Morish Truffle Macadamia, made especially for the festival, were an absolute hit. We even had to come back and collect extra supplies to feed the masses on Saturday night!

Other food offerings found at the festival looked scrumptious….Wood spit roasted loin of pork from Il Paiolo the pizza man… melt in the mouth. Hazel Nut and Truffle soup with crusty French stick by Jean Pierre Sanchez Boulangerie - an earthy winter warmer treat perfect for the day. Alain Fabrergues of the Loose Box in Mundaring offered a variety of tempting tasting plates, my favourite, Truffle pate infused with Courvoisier cognac.

….Well, I could just go on, but it would really work much better if you just join us next year and do the tantalising of the taste buds personally!!

Truffle season has hit, and Western Australia likes to celebrate!

The pristine south-west of WA is the perfect spot for digging up the rare French Black Truffle, which come into a short season during our brisk Winter months.

And to honour the mighty truffle, we here at Morish have decided to go a bit truffle-manic ourselves with our new Morish Truffle Macadamia! Lightly roasted macadamias are bathed in truffle oil then gently tossed in truffle salt, bringing the delicate truffle flavours to the palate from the first delectable mouthful… Mmm!

Truffle-lovers are already falling in love with our Truffle Macadamias, just like The West Australian who featured our delicious new macs in their special truffle feature in FRESH last week (their office is going a bit truffle crazy as well!).

In fact, West Australians love their truffles SO much that literally thousands of truffle-nuts visit the south west to get their fair share of the stuff while it lasts! And the perfect opportunity to learn and taste everything about truffles is at the annual truffle festival in Mundaring.


The Mundaring Truffle Festival has been running for 5 years, and it's ever growing popularity means that it attracts over 20,000 visitors to the festival weekend from Australia and beyond - meaning our "little" Mundaring has now respectfully earned its right on the global culinary calendar!

This weekend, 30th - 31st July 2011, the Mundaring Truffle Festival will be held once again in Mundaring, WA. The weekend is full to the brim of truffle action, with cooking masterclasses, entertainment, food discussion panels, food tasting, wine tasting - everything truffle! You can even meet the truffle dogs!

Oh and did we mention? Morish will be there too!

So best of all (if we don't say so ourselves) you can taste and stock up on our delicious Truffle Macadamias - they have been made exclusively for the festival!


Happy truffle fest!

PS: to find out more visit Mundaring Truffle Festival

With the winter chill well and truly on its way, we thought we'd give our advice on staying toasty. Here are our top picks of this season's winter warmers…

1. HOT SOUP
Never underestimate the power of a good bowl of hot soup! Not to mention there are plenty to choose from - "Toasty" Tomato, "Piping Hot" Pumpkin, "V…ery Warm" Vegetable & Lentil. And to warm the soul as well, "Calescent" Chicken & Corn. (Like our soup nick-names??) A very good season to make friends with Campbell.

2. MORISH HOT & SPICY RANGE
Peanuts, cashews and macadamias - all in a deliciously morish and CHILLI caramel coating. We add spices and chilli to our original caramel coating to add a bit of a KICK to your nuts - and while some might compare a kick in the nuts to "the worst pain in the world" we would have to say our Hot & Spicy nuts are more akin to a far more enjoyable mouth-watering experience that will have you reaching for another packet. Definitely a good way to warm you up from the inside!

3. RUG UP
"Rugging up" is as easy as throwing on a big woolly jumper (this is when dad's oversized knee-length cardies actually become stylish, minus the mothballs please). Just don't take it too far… We think this one may have taken a bit too much inspiration from the Muppets to look like Kermit after a stint in the dryer. Needless to say, I'm sure she is in fact very warm indeed. Winter warmer? Success!

4. TEA + TEA + TEA + TEA….
We say, make like the Queen and help yourself a few cups (and some more!) of tea. Remember: pinkies out when sipping! Tea is also good to enjoy with a few [packets] of Choc Coated Macadamia… And for bonus "warmth" points find some kitsch tea accessories, like this tea bag dipper we found (dubbed thee "Penguin Boy") that inspires people to squeal: OHHhhh IT'S SO CUTE!

5. ISLAND PARADISE
When all hell breaks loose and you've been caught in the rain, your socks are wet, the heater is broken and you've run out of hot chocolate mix, use the power of imagination and think WARM. There is a reason why bird's fly north for the winter, and this is it:


Ahhh… :-)



We hope you have a very warm winter!