The Truffle Man

A sprinkle of this gourmet superstar brings the ‘WOW’ factor! ✨🌟✨

Bottarga. It’s so easy to use and packs such a culinary flavour punch, you’ll wonder why you haven’t got it in your fridge so you can use it every day. 👏🌟👏

This sun dried mullet roe has been used for centuries as an essential finishing touch - crumbled, shaved or finely grated over pasta or eggs. This is a guaranteed way to add depth, richness and savoury flavours to a whole range of dishes. ⭐️🍝⭐️

The Truffle Man are proud stockists of very high quality Bottarga, crafted locally with Queensland sunshine. 👏☀️👏

As a guide, allow for 6-8 thin slices or 2 tablespoons of grated Bottarga per serving (equal to about 5-8 grams). Some recipes may require more. Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.🔪🧑🏻‍🍳🥄

Order via the link or by visiting our website. Happy shopping! 🛒

Do you love spices? ✅
Join local cooking identity Ranee Veerassamy] for a bucket list off the beaten track experience Spice Tour in Kerala this October 🌶
Ranee Veerassamy]
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Many of you may not be aware of the other side of what I do, but I have been working on a special project, a cookbook with stories of how life was during my younger days, including recipes done the traditional way and the history behind the dishes.

It is now in the very capable hands of my literary agent, thank you to my very dear friend for introducing me to such a wonderful person.

In the meantime, the social enterprise work still continue with a much anticipated Spice Tour taking off in October. All details are on our bio.

Don’t let winter pass by without trying this Truffle and Champagne Risotto recipe! 🖤

There is nothing better than a creamy black truffle risotto with champagne on a cold winter evening.🍾🖤❄️

Don’t forget the main ingredient! Order your .hill black diamond today so you can indulge in this delightful classic next week. 🧑‍💻🖤📦

We love sharing our tried-and-tested easy truffle recipes with you. Pop over to our stories to see how easy it is to whip up this luxe risotto. Or, visit our website for the recipe and have a browse through some of our other culinary gems. 🍽🖤👨‍💻

Bon appétit! 🖤

Don’t miss this Truffle Degustation with a Spanish twist. Book now! ✨
restaurant and are bringing their love of truffle to Brisbane this Thursday 14th July, proudly supported by .hill and a plentiful supply of fresh Périgord truffles. ✨🖤✨

This seven course degustation menu promises a superb culinary journey through the flavours of Spain, enhanced by our favourite black diamonds. and will be attending and we’d love you to join us. ✨🖤✨

Reserve your table now via .restaurant website - limited seats remain. ✨🖤✨

✨ 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐚 𝐩𝐮𝐫é𝐞
✨ 𝐑𝐚𝐰 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐟 𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭, 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐩, 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐢𝐥
𝐞𝐠𝐠, 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐥𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧
✨ 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐞𝐠𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐥𝐤, 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧
✨ 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞, 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐥𝐞, 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬.
✨ 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐲 𝐁𝐮𝐠, 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐫é𝐞, 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥, 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝
✨ 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭
✨ 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭

Here is an idea for some cute little caviar canapés for your next dinner party ✨
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Take some long, thin Kipfler potatoes and cut them into 2-3cm rounds. Leave the skin on. Bowl them until soft, place in cold water to cool, then peel away the skin.
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Scoop a little cavity out in the middle with a spoon.
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Place a t-spoon of crème fraîche into the cavity and top with caviar. Add a couple of sprigs of fresh chives to decorate and serve on basil leaves. Et voila! Delicious! 😍

16 happy years of partnering with chefs! 🧑🏽‍🍳

and have been sourcing and supplying premium quality truffles in Australia for many, many years. 🖤

One of the added benefits of our business is the opportunity to partner with talented chefs every winter to bring unique seasonal events to life. 🍽

A significant highlight was when we started doing events in 2013 and decided to host our first ‘The Truffle Lady presents…’ Truffle & Wine Dinner at Brent’s (subsequently 85 Miskin St, sadly now closed). 💃

Most exciting of all was the fact that celebrity chef and French icon, Gabriel Gaté, attended! 🎉

inspired my love of cooking as a teenager. To have him seated at my inaugural event was beyond exciting. 🇫🇷

Coincidently, his series ‘Taste le Tour’ was playing on SBS at the time, and that very night the show was visiting the same region in the south of France and drinking the same cuvee as we had with one of our courses - Chateau Lancyre ‘La Rouviere’ 2010 Coteux de Languedoc, a blend of Roussane, Marssane and Viognier. 🚴

If you’d like to read more about the history of our business, pop over to the blog posts on our website www.thetruffleman.com.au 📝

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Have you dined at Essa? Time to book your table! 🔥

How divine does this dish look? Particularly when dressed with freshly shaved truffle from .hill 🔥🖤🔥

Thanks Phil, Fin and the team at .restaurant - we can’t wait to see and taste a season of truffled up masterpieces from your kitchen. 👏

➡️ Repost: Half of a really good chicken. A free range one from Mt Cotton, 30 minutes from here. The breasts are dry aged for a week on the crown to tighten the skin. The legs are prepared like a sausage with fennel and black pepper and stuffed into the wing. Then the wing and the crowns are finished over the fire so they’re slightly smoky and crispy. Pickled mushrooms and buckwheat finish the sauce.

📷 Photos: .restaurant

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I used to find it hard to find something beautiful about a truffle ♣️. After all, from the outside it is just a black blob that smells a bit on the nose 👃🏻​​​​​​​​
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But the more I work with them (and it has been for over 15 years now!) the more I appreciate that their true beauty is on the inside 🖤​​​​​​​​
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Did you know that the flesh of the truffle is called the 'gleba' ❓​​​​​​​​
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The gleba is initially white and as the truffle ripens it turns brown or grey and when fully mature has the beautiful deep black colour with a maze of white veins.​​​​​​​​
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Nature in all its gastronomic glory 🥰​​​​​​​​
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It’s the age old question… how much truffle do I really need? 🤷‍♂️

As a general rule of thumb, we recommend you use the following quantities as a guide:

🖤 entrée - allow 3 grams per person
🖤 main - allow 5 grams per person

To give you some points of reference for truffle sizing, a 50 gram truffle is about the size of an egg and a 100g truffle is about the size of a tennis ball. 🥚🖤🎾

Now that you have your questions answered, it’s time to place your truffle order. We are harvesting on Monday, so don’t delay! 🖤

Follow the links to our shop or pop over to our website for a full list of all our fresh truffles (starting from 25g), truffle accessories and other gourmet products. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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The simple things in life are often the best! ⭐️

Take a long look at this totally sublime mushroom, rosemary, gruyère and black truffle pizza bianco. 👏🖤⭐️

Inspiration and photos courtesy of self-confessed food nerd and alumnus (featuring a magnificent Périgord truffle from .hill) ✨🖤⭐️

Creative, inspired, delicious. Thank you, Scott, for making us hungry. Chefs know best! 👏👏👏

Montrachet Restaurant shares their love of truffle, starting tonight! 🖤

We are thrilled to be working with Shannon and the team at Montrachet Restaurant] again this year. 🖤

Starting tonight, they will be offering our Manjimup winter truffle from Manjimup Truffle Producer], 36 month aged pecorino and lobster risotto special. 🖤

Shannon has a passion for sourcing only the very best produce, so we are proud to supply him the most superb quality chef-grade Périgord truffles Australia has to offer, thanks to our partners Manjimup Truffle Producer] 🖤

📸 Photo credit: Montrachet Restaurant]

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We had the pleasure of hosting several of QLD's best chefs at ICE - The Institute of Culinary Excellence - RTO 40748 last night for the launch of the Australian Truffle Season. 🍂

We were proud to be showcasing the superb Truffle Hill truffles from Manjimup.

Not only did this give the chefs a chance to get up close and personal with the truffles, it also gave the apprentice chefs a wonderful opportunity to work with high end produce.💥 Several of the chefs who were there last night wished they had had opportunities like that when they were learning the trade.

A huge thank you to Alessandro from Profumo Wines for supplying the sublime Italian wines: Tessari Soave and San Lorenzo ‘Collina Barcaione’ Montepulciano for the event.

And finally, A big thank you to Anannasa as well for providing me with the perfect Truffle coat for our cold Brisbane night, and to Ange Costes Photography for the beautiful photos.

Truffles are now available weekly on our webshop

Truffle a key ingredient in Australia’s Best Pie! 🇦🇺

BREAKING NEWS: A Mushroom & Truffle Pie created by Rolling Pin Pies & Cakes Bakery was recently named Australia’s Best Pie at the 2022 Australia’s Best Pie & Pastie Competition, held by the Baking Association of Australia. 🖤🎉🖤

Rolling Pin manager Nathan Williams said he believed it was the first time a vegetarian pie had taken out this annual national award. 👏🇦🇺👏

It has a creamy mushroom filling infused with the unmistakeable flavour of truffle, wrapped in a golden flaky crust. 🥧❤️🥧

If you are a truffle lover, the pie is absolutely worth travelling for. You’ll find Rolling Pin Bakery at Ocean Grove, about 90 minutes drive from Melbourne. Three cheers for the team! 🎉🚙🎉

📸 Photo credits:

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The wait is finally over… taking truffle orders now for delivery later next week! 📣

You’ve been very patient, so we are thrilled to announce that our premium, chef-grade truffles are ripe and ready to make their way to your kitchens and restaurants. ✨💃✨

are proud to represent and distribute superb .hill produce from Manjimup Western Australia. Quality is incredibly important to both companies, and only the very best Périgord truffles are supplied to chefs and clients alike. See the difference, smell the difference, taste the difference. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Contact us via email or phone (links in bio) to let us know how we can assist you this season. Orders need to be placed by midday on Friday to ensure delivery the following week. 📣📧📲

And don’t forget to follow our socials and join our mailing list via the website for product news and truffle season updates. 📣🧑‍💻🖤

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Tag a Queensland chef who needs one of these! 👨‍🍳

If you are working as a chef in QLD, keep your eyes peeled for your invitation to join our client list. ❤️

For over 16 years now, chefs have been seeking out The Truffle Man. 🔍

The five main reasons they return every winter to order from us are:

⭐️ Quality
⭐️ Consistency
⭐️ Aroma
⭐️ Customer Service
⭐️ Product Knowledge

We are honoured to supply Manjimup Truffle Producer] truffles to so many talented chefs. We also welcome foodies, home cooks and truffle lovers alike to experience our premium product and personal service. ❤️

We are very happy to answer your questions, assist with truffle advice, recipes and information about chef-grade truffles from Manjimup Truffle Producer] in Manjimup W.A. 🇦🇺

These world-class truffles are favoured by the most exclusive Michelin Star Chefs and are featured on menus throughout Australia, Germany, Spain, Denmark, the UK, the USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. 🌎🌍🌏

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Thank you Eat drink and be Kerry for this great article about truffles in Australia. 🙌🏻

Buying truffles in Australia Noses up! Here’s how to store truffles and use truffles during the truffle season in Australia and where to buy your truffles.

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Are they ripe yet?

We’re on the cusp of truffle season here in Manjimup.⁣ The Truffle Hill team have been out today and our fantastic doggos are finding lots of Australian Black Truffle (tuber melonsporum), otherwise known as the Chef’s Diamonds. But at this stage, they’re not ripe and we are having to carefully re-cover over with the rich, fertile Manjimup soil nearly 95% what the dogs are finding.⁣
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Dogs have over 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in us humans. Incredibly, the part of a dog's brain that is devoted to analysing smells is about 40-times greater than ours. To give you an indication of how evolved their sense of smell is dogs can detect volatile organic compounds is one part per trillion.⁣
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For the past few days, our clever pooches have been snuffling and hunting through the orchard and earning lots of treats thanks to their ability to smell and locate truffles. ⁣
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For now though, when we carry out an investigatory small nick of the gleba (or flesh of the truffle), it’s not yet at the rich black with white veins stage we’re all familiar with, but is grey/off-white instead. Sometimes after washing the dirt off there can be a reddish hue to the peridium or skin of the truffle as well, all indicators it’s not quite time to dig up this natural underground treasure.⁣
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Truffles don’t behave like apricots or bananas – they don’t continue to ripen once picked. When a truffle is disturbed from the soil and removed from its attachment to fine tree roots and it’s grey, it will remain grey. Try finely shaving or micro planing this pale imitation or a ripe truffle and it’s the taste equivalent of blah. That trademark truffle aroma, while detectable by our canine friends, is a mere shadow of the rich full potent pungency that envelops you when these beauties are fully ripe.⁣
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So as much as we want to dig up these amazing gastronomic delights and get them to you right now we hope you understand that we can not – and in fact we will not - because they are not ready.⁣
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You will be rewarded for your patience, thanks to our understanding of this incredible natural product.

The hunt is on! 🦮

The team of happy canine truffle hunters and their handlers at .hill have had a busy few weeks. Truffle dogs have the important task of confirming the exact location of these gourmet treasures. They clearly enjoy their job. ❤️

Stay tuned to for news of our upcoming season launch date! 👏🖤👏

In the meanwhile, fancy the idea of a truffle hunt experience in Western Australia? 🖐

Truffle Hill is one of the few truffières in the world that allows a select number of people to participate in a truffle hunt in the winter months and see for themselves the fascination of how truffles grow, are hunted, checked for maturity and then harvested. 🍂🐕🍁

Pop over to their website for information on joining Adrian Mielke, Truffle Hill’s most experienced hunter, who with his canine friends has successfully sniffed out over 55,000kg of black Périgord truffles. 🐕🍁🐕

www.trufflehill.com.au



📸 Photo credits: .hill

Did you know truffles have a magic number? 🔮

It’s true, Périgord truffles really do have a special number… it relates to the temperature of the ground where they are growing. 🖤🌳🖤

In order to complete the truffle ripening progress and push these treasures towards the surface, the earth needs to cool down to below 12 degrees Celsius. 🍂🍁🍂

The good news from .hill in Manjimup Western Australia is that Mother Nature is working her magic! 🔮

A series of cold fronts moving through the area is having the desired effect of dropping ground temperatures. Truffles are bursting through the earth in a greater numbers than this time last year and all signs are looking very promising for an earlier start to the season in 2022. 👏

Our first shipment of truffles is not far away. We will be receiving a weekly delivery moving forward through June, July and beyond, until Mother Nature starts to warm the ground again. 🔮

We look forward to assisting you with all your truffle needs this winter. 🖤🍽🖤

Stay in touch with us via email or phone for truffle orders, and subscribe to regular updates by visiting our website ➡️ www.thetruffleman.com.au

It was a lovely start to the week working with 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲] for a product photo shoot. Look out for some gorgeous new photos coming soon 💥

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𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙚 𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙

🥂Back in stock! Our beautiful Philippe Jamesse Collection champagne tasting glasses from Lehmann Glass.
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New this year, the Grande Champagne 45 now come in Ultralight - an innovation in glassware manufacturing that has taken 2 years to develop and perfect. 💥
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Ultralight is the high fashion revolution in tasting glasses! The technique combines exceptional finesse and optimal lightness that takes your tasting experience to the next level.
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The 'secret recipe' lead free crystal used by Lehmann eliminates the use of lead, guarantees the brilliance, transparency and exceptional sonority of our tasting glasses.
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Available online now with free shipping Australia wide. 🛻
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