The Green Gourmet

Home
Australia
Willunga, SA
The Green Gourmet

The Green Gourmet
Good health and happiness begin in the kitchen. Welcome to The Green Gourmet

We believe that good health and happiness begin in the kitchen.

So we want to get you back into the kitchen and excited about what you're cooking for dinner tonight (and every other meal this week). You'll be amazed by the fabulous food you can create when you let fresh, local, seasonal produce take centre-stage. Your body will thank you too. Join a cooking class in our Hawthorn kitchen or at Bottega Rotolo in Norwood, South Australia. Or give yourself the ultimate gift of a cooking retreat at The Seventh Seal Luxury Retreat in Bali. If we've done our job, you'll go home feeling energised and inspired to break new ground in your own kitchen —with a big smile on your face while you're at it.

25/09/2025

EAT IT ALL!

♻️✨ Join the leftovers revolution! ✨♻️

Think leftovers are boring?Think again!

In this fun, interactive The Great Unwaste workshop hosted by City of Onkaparinga, you’ll discover how small changes in your kitchen can add up to big savings for your wallet—and the planet.

Join Andrea from The Green Gourmet to learn how to cook just the right amount, serve smart portions, and create delicious 'leftover makeovers.' We’ll cover simple storage tips to keep food safe and tasty, plus creative ways to use up what’s already in your fridge or freezer.

Tickets are just $6, and include a tasty snack made from rescued food ingredients PLUS the chance to win a fabulous door prize!

📅 When & where:

👉 Friday 24 October, 9.30–11.30am – Seaford Community Centre

👉 Wednesday 12 November, 5–7pm – Aberfoyle Park Community Centre

Tickets for both locations linked in bio. (The two workshops are identical, so you only need to come along to one.)

Don’t miss this chance to waste less, save more, and eat better. 🌍💚

16/09/2025

I am just beginning to emerge from the bubble of my birthday bliss: 5 glorious days of celebrating and feasting with family and friends at the most extraordinary villa in Sri Lanka.

As you might expect from me, a genuine, local birthday feast was the cornerstone of my celebration and featured:

🌿 Vattakka niyambala (Pumpkin coconut curry)
🍛 Polos ambula (Young jackfruit curry)
🫛Bonji kariya (Green bean curry)
🪷Nelum ala kalu pol (Lotus root curry)
🐠Maalu kariya (Fish curry)
🫜Rathu ala kariya (Beetroot cutry)
🍍Annasi temparāduva (Tempered pineapple)
🍚 Kaha bath (Yellow rice)
🌶️ Karavila sambola (Bitter gourd sambol)
🍃Gotu kola sambola (Pennywort sambol)
🥕Carrot sambola (Carrot and coconut salad)
🎂And, of course, Sri Lankan love cake, to finish.

Thank you to my beautiful family and friends and to Shaluka, Danusha and Sussil for nourishing us in every sense and making my birthday dreams come true. My heart is full and 60 is feeling mighty fine so far. 💚💚💚

14/08/2025

Tired of throwing away good food—and your hard-earned money?

I’m thrilled to be hosting a series of FREE, fun and interactive workshops with where you’ll learn how to plan flexible meals, shop with confidence, and waste less food at home (meaning you save money and eat better.)

Grounded in principles, you’ll learn how to ‘shop your kitchen first’, build a real-life meal plan, and avoid common shopping traps (like shopping while hungry or without your list!). You’ll also discover smart food storage strategies that keep food fresher for longer.

Walk away with tools and tips you’ll really use—every week.

We have two ‘Plan it like you mean it’ workshops:

🥦Wednesday 20 August: 3-5pm at Woodcroft Morphett Vale Neighbourhood Centre

🥕Saturday 23 August: 10.30am-12.30pm at McLaren Vale Visitor Information Centre

Choose the day, time and place that works best for you. 😊

Book your free spot now – tickets linked in bio. 🎟️

06/08/2025

This is what hands-on fermenting looks like: lots of messy fun!

Lucky last tickets left to join us this Sunday for the Festival where you’ll learn to make 3 ALL NEW fabulous ferments using produce exclusively sourced from the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula.

We’ll chat about the latest research in gut health, the links between food and mood, and share a nourishingly delicious long lunch.

Full guidance and recipes provided + 3 jars of colourful, living ferments to take home.

Simply the perfect way to spend a winter Sunday arvo. Full details and last tickets linked in bio.

30/07/2025

What a delight it was to judge the Willunga Almond Blossom Festival Cookery Competition again this year. Congratulations to all the winners (which includes everyone who entered IMO!).

And a HUGE thank you to all our fabulous ingredient sponsors: Taronga Almonds, Feather & Peck, Peninsula Providore and Fleurieu Milk Company. See you again next year. 😊🥣🧁

27/07/2025

Did you know that your gut hosts trillions of living microorganisms, collectively called your gut microbiota?

In fact, our bodies are made up of about 30 trillion human cells and 38 trillion bacteria cells.

That means we are more bacteria than we are human!

What you feed your microbiota is key to just about every part of your health. It loves plenty of veggies, fruits, olive oil, legumes, wholegrains - even coffee, dark chocolate and a bit of stinky cheese!

And of course it loves fermented foods too. Which ones and how much? You’ll find out at our new hands-on Fabulous Fermentation Workshop as part of the Festival, where we’ll go beyond sauerkraut to make three new ferments for you to take home + enjoy a nourishing long lunch and detailed chat about everything that’s good for your gut. 🥗🫜

Booking link in bio for the last 🎟️ 🎫

23/07/2025

So excited to be tasting and judging all the wonderful Willunga Almond Blossom Festival cakes, biscuits and novelties THIS Friday. Entries close tonight.

So if you’ve been umming and aahing about entering, now is the time to get your whisks out and just do it!

The more entries we have the more fun everyone has.🤩 The Festival Cake uses so many local ingredients, so it’s a great way to support our local farmers and producers as well. 🎂👩‍🌾👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

18/07/2025

Flashback to some of the prettiest cutest and most delicious Cookery Competition entries I’ve had the pleasure of judging in the last couple of years.

And a little reminder that there are only 7 more sleeps until I’ll be judging this year baking along with Angelle of !

If you haven’t registered to enter yet, it’s time to get your whisks on! It’s a fabulous community event to support and there are lots of delicious prizes to share. The link in my bio will take you straight to the entry form. I hope your baked goodies will be amongst the ones I’m tasting next Friday. 🧁🎂🥮🥣🧑‍🍳

01/07/2025

Send a message to learn more

19/06/2025

Calling all bakers ...

I’m thrilled to announce that The Green Gourmet has been asked to create the official Festival Cake recipe for the 2025 Cookery Competition. 🥮

And it’s a beauty (if I do say so myself!): combining local almonds with the zing of navel oranges, the surprising crunch of poppy seeds, and to keep everyone on their toes ... Australian extra virgin olive oil instead of butter.

Using olive oil makes perfect sense. As well as the Fleurieu Peninsula being home to some of the most delicious almonds you’ll taste anywhere in the world, we also grow, press and blend the most extraordinary extra virgin olive oil.

If you’ve never baked with Australian extra virgin olive oil before, you’re in for a treat. The oil keeps baked goods extra-moist (because it doesn’t become solid at room temperature like butter), has a subtle fruity flavour, and provides a host of brain- and heart-health benefits.

We used Nangkita Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO), which is perfect for baking and partners perfectly with the local
Almond Meal and
Greek Yoghurt – talk about keeping it local!

If you’re ready to start practising your perfect bake, why not head to this sunny Saturday, where you pick up all these local ingredients + new season’s navel oranges? 🍊 🍊

Full recipe and competition entry form here: https://form.jotform.com/Willungarecpark/wabf-cookery-competition2025

17/04/2025

What a wonderful evening of learning, sharing, tasting and making we had at our Happy, Healthy Gut & Introduction to Fermenting workshop on Tuesday night.

A group of 50-or-so joined this Common Thread sustainability event to learn practical ways to improve their health while reducing food waste – and having a whole lot of delicious fun!

The opportunity to share this ancient wisdom with larger groups of people really gets me buzzing – and has a wonderful ripple effect ...

🌿Everyone goes home realising that there is something very simple and inexpensive they can enjoy doing to support their health and reduce food waste.

🥕Someone from the group shares a jar of ferments with a neighbour, friend or family member.

🥦That person loves how good it makes them feel, and asks for the recipe so they can start fermenting themselves.

🍅Another participant shares produce they’ve grown with a group who start fermenting together.

🍆A group of friends who came along decide to visit a farmers’ market for the first time and discover a whole new way of shopping and eating.

👩‍🌾Small local farmers benefit from new customers.

💚And so the circle continues ...

That’s why I think I have the best job in the world!

There’s nothing better than working with local councils to make events like these come alive. If that sounds like something you’d like to create for your community, just pop some thoughts on a DM or email and let’s make it happen.

14/03/2025

WOW! What a wild (literally) couple of days we’ve just had being guided by Adam James - master in the ‘facilitation of bacteria’ (i.e.fermentation). Thank you. 🙏🙏

After picking glorious produce from the Agrarian’s garden each day, we got to work capturing microbes on veggies and legumes to transform them into a mesmerising range of delicious, highly bioavailable, gut- and brain-loving condiments.

We learnt so many new principles and techniques to bring home and apply to our own fermenting - and share with all our lovely workshop participants. Prepare to be blown away at our next fermenting workshop, which is actually part of a pretty spectacular Tasting Australia event with . Here’s a handy link to the tickets: https://tastingaustralia.com.au/products/events/2025/the-ultimate-foodie-ladies-day-out. 😉

Here are a few snaps of all that gorgeous produce, the amazing ferment collection at the Agrarian Kitchen, some action shots, and I’m sure you’ll notice my obsession with artichokes and their flowers shining through!

For my fellow fermenting nerds, the last shot includes the 8 ferments we made. From left to right starting at the back row with the 2 tall jars, we have:

🥒Garden glut salsa verde (everything green in the garden)
🍅Georgian stuffed green tomatoes with chilli, tarragon and lovage
🥕Carrots with kunzea and pepper berry leaf
🧄Fermented garlic and beetroot with lovage, tarragon and pepper
🌶️ Adam‘s bastardised kanzuri
🍆Shibazuke - cucumber, eggplant, myoga and shiso
🍓Rhubarb, green strawberry and cardamom leaf boshi (similar to an umeboshi)
🫛Chickpea miso with toasted cumin seeds
🫘Broad bean doubanjiang (spicy Sichuanese style miso)✨Shio koji - magic’ seasoning

I can’t wait to share more fermenting knowledge and nourishment with you. 💚🌿

Address

Willunga
Willunga, SA

Website

http://www.thegreengourmet.com.au/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Green Gourmet posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to The Green Gourmet:

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in Willunga?