?Mad Hatter? Spring Picnic ? Melbourne Food Bloggers

It was a beautiful cool but sunny day at Studley Park ? perfect weather to gather and meat (oh, oops did I type that, I meant ‘meet’) the 30+ wonderful faces from the Melbourne food blogging community and equally awesome accompanying dishes of course. There was so much to try, and so many people to meet. I definitely did not feel ‘ravenous’ afterwards for at least a couple of hours?

Not to mention there were loads of prizes (including restaurant vouchers, ceramic stones, kitchenware, camera accessories?) to be won for: Overall Best Dish, Best Savoury (1st and 2nd runner up), Best Sweet/Dessert (1st and 2nd runner up), Best Mad Hatters (2 x craziest hatters) and Most Outrageous ”Blue” Dish. Many thanks to the sponsors: Nuffnang, Chef’s Armoury , Pan Asian, Chilli Padi, The French Brasserie, JORG, Make My Day, Harvey Publicity. And special thanks to Thanh, Penny and Michele for organising this event.

I’m currently having a lot of trouble trying to remember who made what, and what is what, so just going to post the drool-licious photos for now and whatever I can remember. And apologies to those I didn’t manage to take photos of.

Roasted lamb leg with herbs (Best savoury 1st)

Spatula, Spoon and Saturday: son-in-law eggs (Overall best dish)

Curry puffs (Best savoury 2nd)

Ceviche with pomelo, lime, lemon and orange

Baked risotto stuffed in Truss tomatoes

Themed tea pot hat (Best Mad-hatter), and the many lovely cup cakes!

Sky blue cup cakes

Lemon rind madelines

Turkish Surprise with Turkish fig

Blueberry and Chocolate Brownies

Chocolate chip cookies

Carrot, nuts and oats bar

um… more yummy cupcakes? =)

Edible teapot with chocolate truffles

S cookies

sorry can’t remember what biscuits these were…

Eat me chocolate cupcakes

Brownie with M&Ms… i think?

Scones with lemon curd and buttered marmalade.

Double chocolate brownies (Best sweet 1st) – courtesy of my haphazard baking. =)

Special guest Linda (yupz, from season1 MasterChef)

Just thought I’d add in this final photo of my cousin Thanh – clearly still hungry after the judging had finished! =)

Finally, it was great to meet you all! And you can check each one of the attendees here:

Adrian, April, Ashley, Billy, Caryn & Brendan, Cherrie, Christy, Emanuela, Emma, Debra, Heidi, Joe & Nicole,  Kat, Kat & Josh, Kenny, Lauren, Linda, Michele, Michelle, Michelle, Penny, Sandra, Sarah, Thanh, Vanessa, Kruppy & Lynda, Vee.

(I hope I didn’t miss anyone)