Matters of Taste

Big thanks to Paul at for our visit yesterday to his Manjimup straw farm.

This is prime season for strawberries in our SW. The harvesting team pick fruit with stalk attached - less handling less bruising better storage. 🍓❤️

So sweet.

Available direct from farm in our online grocery store.

💥 Last chance before Christmas 💥

Order your 10kg box of clean, fresh and delicious pasture raised chicken by 5pm today (Sunday).

Heres what you’ll get…
10kg Premium Fresh Pasture Raised Chicken (hormone and antibiotic free) equivalent of 6 whole birds, includes:
2 x 6 pack drumsticks
2 x 6 pack wings
3 x 4 pack thighs, skin on, bone in
5 x 2 pack breasts, skin on, boneless
1 x whole chicken

This is a great product with real flavour ethically farmed in Bridgetown by

Order from mattersoftaste.com.au

Breakfast was just delightful all fresh and tasty with great coffee from 👍🏻

Thanks to the young capable girl-power team out front for running everything so smoothly and the boys in the kitchen for perfecting poached eggs!

It’s not everyday you get to enjoy a country dinner sitting around long tables on a farmhouse verandah watching the sun setting over a stunningly beautiful scene. But that was the case for our tour group last night!

Huge thanks to Dean and Julia Ryan for showing our group around and for opening up their home and to Joe and team for creating the wonderful food. We were looked after very very well 🙏🏻💕

So much beauty and flavour at our first stop on the Southern Forests Agri-Food Tour 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thanks to Gavin, David and Deb who provided the most delectable lunch along with fascinating insights into the truffle industry in Manjimup.

has added another venue in Manji to enjoy beautiful food made with local produce.

Watch out for some really special H&H products from their range hitting our online grocery range - just in time for Christmas 🫶🏻

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to Lesley from Mt Lawley who won the Matters of Taste prize of $260+ worth of west Australian food at

She’s a good person to know! Lesley was invited to attend the event held in Fremantle by a friend and she told me she’s sharing the goodies with her! 👯‍♀️ She said if it wasn’t for her friend she wouldn’t have been there and entered the draw. 💕

I’d like to thank all the businesses who put their hands up to provide much of the contents. We feel very privileged to work with them every week to bring customers beautiful and delicious local food. 🫶🏻

On the bus to Manjimup this morning to visit our farming friends in the Southern Forests for our Spring Agri-Food Tour weekend.

Tomorrow as part of the program we’ll be dropping in to see Paul at Smashastrawb

This pic was taken earlier today before leaving and is totally without filters or enhancements. Paul’s strawberries are red, sweet and bursting with flavour, honestly they are incredible. 🍓🍓🍓

The team pick the berries via their stems so as not to touch or bruise the berry - you can see the stalks in the photo. Now that’s ’taking care’.

Anthony collects strawberries from Paul’s son Phil in Perth early on Thursdays and Fridays - often they’ve arrived from farms overnight.

You can order these online from us on our website mattersoftaste.com.au or click on the image to go to our store.

See you tomorrow Paul!! 🍓🫶🏻👍🏻

One of the most talked about items on our stand at Farmer on Your Plate last Saturday was Scamorza cheese samples we were handing out. 🧀

Scamorza is a stretched curd cheese hailing from Southern Italy. It’s made here in Perth using W.A. milk by Dom and his team in Vic Park. It’s a mozzarella style cheese which is left to mature in its whey for several hours to allow flavours to develop, then hung to dry.

It’s impossible to have just one piece - I can personally testify to that!

Serve sliced or cut into cubes on a grazing board with charcuterie and more, or nibble on from the fridge (I’ve made toasties with it and used it as a melting cheese too but traditionally it’s eaten as is).

We receive a fresh delivery every Wednesday for our customer orders which are delivered on Thursday and Friday 🙌🏻 Fresh made simple!

Order before midday today for delivery or pick up on Friday or over the weekend for next week’s deliveries.📦🚚

We can even take you to the La Delitzia Latticini cheese making premises on our City Limits Food Tours - all details and to book check out our website 🇮🇹 🙌🏻mattersoftaste.com.au

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Announcing the prize WINNER from the weekend event at 💥

Congratulations to Lesley S who is the lucky person to receive a huge box of food grown and made right here in WA!

We’d like to thank our brilliant suppliers who have assisted in providing this amazing giveaway, valued at over $260 📦 These are just some of the W.A. businesses we work with each week to bring our customers the freshest local food for them and their families 💕

We’ll video the box being packed on Thursday brimming with fresh produce ready for Lesley to collect. 🙌🏻













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What a beauty this week’s Sweet Treat is! This is a Cube Croissant that will be baked fresh for our grocery store customers this Thursday and Friday.

Laminated butter pastry, filled with a Pistachio crème diplomat, dipped in pistachio and white chocolate paste, topped with fresh raspberry nad roasted pistachios.

These generously sized and insanely clever, delicious Pistachio Cube Croissants are made by Julia and her team on Ardross Street in Applecross. You’ll receive them freshly baked and beautifully boxed, so not only can they be a sweet treat for you, they’d also make the most gorgeous gift.

Order by midday Tuesday for Thursdays delivery or midday Wednesday for Friday delivery.

Shop now for beautiful WA produce and locally made food in our online grocery store mattersoftaste.com.au

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Thanks to Kahlia and her brilliant crew from for serving the most delicious coffee today!

You know we range their coffee and tea on our online grocery store?

If you enjoyed a cuppa from our stand today then you could be making coffee like that at home with some fresh beans from their range.

Serving coffee made with Brazil Special Selection today 💙

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Thanks to Luke who made the beaoootiful Classic Ricotta Cannoli and Choc Custard Cannoli for our customers this week.

How do I know they were exquisite, moreish, delectable and basically just the perfect sweet treat???? We ordered some for us to enjoy in the packing shed for morning tea 😉

Hope you can make it to tomorrow between 9am and 3pm.

At 1.30pm I’ll be on stage cooking a Warm Jersey Rump Summer Salad and chatting to farmer Dean Ryan from I’ll then whip up Chantiily Cream with strawberries so stay for some samples.

💥You can go in the draw to WIN a Grocery Box full of WA produce valued at over $260!!! 💥

Southern Forests F&V Boxes AND 100%Grass-Fed Beef Boxes at special prices are available for you to take home PLUS lots of tastings and in-season, just-picked blueberries and strawberries. Everything is fresh as a daisy on our stand!

This is a FREE event to highlight the amazing primary producers who grow our food, so come down to Freo Esplanade Reserve for some tasty fun.

On LIVE@FIVE later today, I'll be cooking dinner for the cameraman and me.

This evening we'll be eating Cone Bay Barramundi with Coconut Laksa Sauce and the cameraman will be filming me cooking this in our kitchen, livestreamed to you on our socials. I hope you can join us at 5pm.

Find this recipe and all other LIVE@FIVE recipes on Matters of Taste Cooks Collective subscription. For just $49 per year you have access to a growing library containing hundreds of my recipes, most with accompanying videos. So much to learn and cook! You'll love it!

Look forward to seeing you at 5pm this afternoon! 👋🏼

So many amazing people in one room! The largest and most diverse showcase of WA food and beverage businesses gathered with around 600 guests at Crown Perth today. The team did an incredible job, pulling this fantastic event for food industry professionals together.

It was colourful and bright, the atmosphere was lively and everywhere I looked people were connecting. Such a great feeling to be with others who are also passionate about West Australian food growers and makers.

I caught up with a lot of our suppliers, many who have become friends over the years and met new people too. I left with a croaky voice 😆 and a feeling of pride that we are working in a great part of the world where there are still such great opportunities to be had.

I also have a number of new products to release over the next few weeks to our online grocery customers - always exciting! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

If you are planning on coming to this Saturday come and visit us for some locally freshly baked sweet treats!

Perfect to enjoy with coffee ☕️ pouring from 9am onwards 🫶🏻

This is a free event for all to enjoy. Come down the Esplanade Reserve in Freo and meet people who are growing and making great W.A. food and drinks.

Get connected 💚🌱🚜

Perhaps you don’t know, but 27 years ago next month I started running cooking classes from my home kitchen in Bicton.

I was concerned as a professional chef with a young family, that many people were missing out on nutrition and flavour in their food as there was no education available about when produce was at its peak in WA.

The first by-line MOT had was ‘Cooking for Four Seasons’ and I designed classes to inspire and teach home cooks all I knew as a professional.

In 2024 I still cook and eat by these principles; our by-line today is ‘Fresh Made Simple’. It seems simple; embracing the local produce that hasn’t travelled from interstate and overseas (so many benefits which I’ll list in a post soon) and eating well.

Today everyone can search the internet where all the information that was missing when I started my business, can now be found.

However (as a generalisation), society has outsourced learning about personal health to ‘experts’ online. This is where diet and what we should be eating is becoming confusing and overwhelming. There is so much conflicting advice!

I believe we need to listen to our own bodies, be aware of what we are consuming to understand the effects on our wellbeing. Individual health is nuanced and the feeling of being responsible for our choices on what we consume can actually feel great. Balance is the key. Don’t overload yourself with food that doesn’t serve you, and on the other hand don’t restrict yourself so much that pleasure in food disappears.

The participant conversations (which are as important as the cooking education) in my classes today are proving that we are taking back control, becoming curious about what we’ve been led to believe about food and health in the past, and dissecting what is believable and relevant to us as individuals.

I feel proud we can have these types of discussions around my kitchen bench - thought provoking and empowering. Thanks to everyone who came along yesterday and for the part each and every person played in making the classes fun and so very worthwhile.

In season until late December these W.A. blueberries are stunning!

Grown in Gingin, picked and personally delivered to us every Wednesday so they can be with you, fresh as a daisy before the weekend.

Don’t mess around with those tiny supermarket punnets any more! Having a larger quantity means you can be generous with these powerhouses of nutrients - we all know how good they are for us.

Shop online for beautiful W.A. produce and groceries now. 🛒📦🚚

https://mattersoftaste.com.au/products/fruit-blueberries-500gm

We want every new customer to feel like Jocelyn. And we aim for Jocelyn, and others to experience this delight each and every time they receive an order.

It makes our day when we receive a text like this. We are so grateful to have a wonderful community of customers who are grateful for the care we take.

All our staff pack orders the way they'd want to receive them, and this is one advantage of shopping with a small business. We get to know each and every one of our customers and they know us. It's a great way to work - a win-win for everyone.

Shop today with MOT, there's always something new to discover as I'm forever researching to find beautiful food from WA.

Here's how it all works https://mattersoftaste.com.au/pages/matters-of-taste-providore

Let me show you this weeks SWEET TREAT available on MOT's providore grocery store now. WOWEE. 😮

Taking 3 days to make from scratch, these will fill your life with anticipation until Thursday or Friday, and plenty of joy when consuming!

Crème Brûlée Danish from the talented team at Miller and Baker on Lake St in Perth.

Live your best life 😉 and order now (limited amounts) https://mattersoftaste.com.au/collections/specials-new-items

Come down to Esplanade Reserve in Freo on 26th October for Farmer On Your Plate. It's sure to be a day of discovery, family fun and 100% delicious!! Anthony and I will be there with our very own stand. Leaf Bean Machine will be making the coffee and I'll be cooking on stage with Dean Ryan from Lake Janis Farm - Looking forward to seeing you there!

We have around 400 items on our local grocery store; so much fabulous food from western Australia growers and makers. Local produce tastes so good!

✨ Easy to order online 24/7.

✨ Place your order by midday tomorrow for Friday delivery around Perth or pick-up from us in Bicton.

✨ Have you seen our weekly specials? There are always new items to discover and a weekly sweet treat to enjoy.

Shop this evening and look forward to a delicious week ahead!

Take a look at how our grocery providore works and what to expect from shopping with us…

https://mattersoftaste.com.au/pages/matters-of-taste-providore

As part of our SPECIAL range this week on our online providore grocery store are these truly delicious family pies from

Give yourself an evening off and serve a pre-made meal that you know is handmade with care, using clean local ingredients, that everyone will love.

Choose from
Beef, red wine and rosemary
Chicken leek and Parmesan

Order by midday Tuesday for Thursday delivery or pick-up 🚚🏠
Order by Wednesday midday for Friday delivery or pickup 🚚🏠

They’ll taste even ‘sweeter’ as there’s $4 off each pie this week only!

https://mattersoftaste.com.au/collections/specials-new-items