A couple of weeks ago the retail marketing department of Westfield Shopping Centres asked me if I was interested in doing some sort of food promotion with one of their Westfield shopping centres.

So during November, Westfield Chatswood included me in their new advertising campaign called Know the New!. The campaign is all about the latest fashion, beauty, technology and kitchen homewares which are available at Westfield Chatswood.

As part of this campaign, Westfield Chatswood shoppers had the opportunity to win a night of fine dining with me cooking. The winner Genieve and her partner Neil enjoyed a 5 course meal with six friends.The evening kicked off with sweet martini’s, then I served a menu of;

• Bread rolls with native spices and macadamia nut oil
• Creamy prawn, cauliflower and lemon myrtle soup with lobster oil
• Wildfire spiced smoked salmon on potato rosti with wild lime mayonnaise 
• Lamb loin rolled with spinach served with a bush tomato chutney and Alpine Pepper jus
• Asparagus with paperbark smoke hollandaise
• Kumara mash scented with Australian Fruit Spice
• Apple Crumble with Riberry Confit and ice cream
• Tasmanian cheese plate with Quandong Confit and lavosh

I would like to thank Westfield Chatswood and their marketing agency who developed this innovative concept of a competition with me. I have had so many people comment on what a great prize this was. I look forward to other promotional events and competitions with Westfield.

If you are interested in holding a similar competition please contact me.