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Experience a tantalising culinary journey across the Mornington Peninsula, learning about the region’s extensive range of local and seasonal produce directly from the talent behind it all.

Experience a tantalising culinary journey across the Mornington Peninsula, learning about the region’s extensive range of local and seasonal produce directly from the talent behind it all.

Spring is a magical time on the Mornington Peninsula. Fruit trees are blossoming, bees are buzzing and the soil is starting to warm delivering delicate and delicious spring produce.

Visit Bass and Flinders Distillery to taste their standalone Truffle Gin, crafted to accentuate the earthy characteristics of fresh local Australian Black Perigord Truffles. These have sourced from some of our local Red Hill farms and the distillery’s finest hand-crafted eau de vie, a grape-based spirit produced in-house by distillation of Victorian wine which gives this gin its smooth texture.

Hillock Downs are committed to providing you with the best beef made by nature. They are MSA licenced producers and pasture certified which means there are no hormones and are antibiotic free animals. They make sure the animals are treated with the utmost respect. Their cattle are all born and raised on the farm using traditional and sustainable farming practices. This recipe is a one pot wonder of comfort food - great to share with family and friends.