Truffles & Mushrooms Rule ! by Highlands Foodie Group

Foodies can't get enough of these toothsome fungi and now is the season to experience them
Bookings are being taken for two tours - both held in NSW’s Southern Highlands. The first is a Truffle Hunt at Rosewood Trufferie – an experience like no other !

Together with the amazing truffle hounds and their handlers, guests will be shown how and where the black truffles are found round the oak and hazelnut trees on this 33 acre property. They will then have the opportunity to watch them being weighed and washed before sitting down to a truffle lunch with recipes devised by one of Sydney’s top chefs. The tours will be conducted by truffle pioneer Duncan Garvey from Perigord Truffles of Tasmania. And for those who can’t make it to the hunt, truffles may be purchased from Perigord Truffles, details on their website.

The other experience is a tour of the 650 metre long disused railway tunnel in Mittagong where the exotic Li-Sun Exotic Mushrooms are growing. The range of mushrooms include Enoki, Shiitake, Chestnut, Shinejii, Woodear – ideal in soups, King Brown & Oyster.

Truffle Hunting Tours are held each Sunday until the season finishes about late August. The first Mushroom Tunnel Tours will be held on Sunday 3 October at 10.30am and 2 pm. More tours will be held in early January and into 2011.

Enquiries, bookings:
Truffle Hunts: T: 0409 462 141, email: patdecorsie@bigpond.com
www.perigord.com.au

Mushroom Tunnel Tours: T: 02 4871 2524,
Email: info@highlandsfoodiegroup.com.au www.highlandsfoodiegroup.com.au