Howdy from Sourced Fresh

Hello you!

If you have landed here it is probably because you have received a Sourced Fresh order form - well, Welcome! I have started up this little enterprise Sourced Fresh because I personally felt that living in Newcastle it was quite difficult to find some more unusual ingredients I wanted to use in my cooking. Over the years I have trekked up and down the F3 to Sydney to purchase ingredients it was just impossible to find fresh here, or the price of those items was so prohibitive. Many of my friends, knowing that I was on a jaunt to 'Little Lebanon/Greece/Italy/Chinatown etc" would ask me to pick up things for them too.

I just want to clarify, I am not a chef and I have never worked in the food industry (except a short stint as a dish pig at a steakhouse when I was 15 - lets not go there!). I'm just a person who is a little picky (ok, really picky) about using the most authentic and the freshest ingredients for the meals I cook for my family and friends. I also have a grand passion for food, entertaining and cooking, and one of my greatest pleasures is finding original, authentic, hand-me-down family recipes.

I have a long-suffering and beloved husband Mark who is my food guinae pig (to his delight) and a terribly finicky 6 year old boy Ewan whose favorite food to my dismay is crumbed steak. Hey, don't get me wrong - I love a piece of crumbed steak, but when there is a world of flavours to explore, it frustrates me that his food world is at the moment very small.

Anything else you ought to know about me? I am of Lebanese and British parentage, which is where my passion to feed my family and friends (Leb) cost effectively (Scots) come from! I have a small recruitment business that I run from my home office. I'm closer to 40 than 30.

I invite you to get involved in this blogspot, please post recipes and suggestions for the featured region of the month, and submit comments on dishes you have prepared. Let me know what regions you are interested in - I am open to suggestions, and have supplier contacts for most regional foods. If I dont, then I will do the research and source it for you!

Thank you for visiting Sourced Fresh - why don't you stick around for dinner!

Rita :)