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Postcards and Morsels - Pialligo Estate

16/8/2013

 
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Accordingly to Ricky M. Gribling, the author of Smoking Food (Hyland House, 1997), there was a time when 'a good supply of smoked food often meant the difference between life and death...  [and] the only method of storing meat successfully was to brine and smoke it.' Nowadays, it's a something of an art form and a Canberra-based duo, Charlie Costelloe and Peter Curry (pictured), have earned a swag of medals for their boutique smokehouse, Pialligo Farm at the Pialligo Estate vineyard.

Peter and I first tasted the Pialligo Farm product range at the Capital Region Farmer's Market. Readers of Good Things took a liking to the salad I created using Pialligo Farm free range breast of smoked duck, with local truffle, Riverina blood oranges and walnuts from the Victorian high country. This was certainly the best smoked duck we'd ever tasted, so it was no surprise to learn that it took out a Gold medal at the Hobart Fine Food Show this year. 

Messrs Costelloe and Curry met last year in Cork, Ireland, through a mutual friend. Charlie Costelloe, Manager of Pialligo Estate, has been in Australia for about 18 months. Originally from Dublin, he has worked in the catering industry since he was 13 years old. Peter Curry is a chef by trade, also started work in the food industry in his homeland of Ireland at the age of 13. He worked with French chefs who taught him about charcuterie. Both have a passion for good food...  and good Irish bacon (!). The rest, they tell me, is history.

Using Charlie's traditional Irish recipe, they prepare dry cured and smoked bacon, and cured hams (from free range pork), hot and cold smoked salmon, Gravalax, smoked ocean trout, smoked duck breast and smoked chicken. Their multi-award winning range also includes smoked eel, Irish whisky smoked salmon, honey glazed hot smoked salmon, Toulouse sausage, confit duck and gourmet baked beans. French oak wine barrels once used at Pialligo and other local vineyards have been recycled into smoking chips.

Plans are underway to build a new, large smokehouse and rejuvenate the property to its former market garden status. Forty varieties and over 1,000 heritage fruit trees have been planted on the farmland alongside the vineyard and olive grove, and crops will be grown to support an on-site restaurant and cellar door, which will open towards the middle of 2014.

In July, Charlie and Peter were interviewed by ABC Rural. Listen to their story here. For more information about Pialligo Estate and Pialligo Farm products, including online sales and a newsletter, visit the web site.
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Tell me, do you enjoy smoked meat or fish? Have you tasted the products from Pialligo Farm? What's your favourite?
gyuri
17/8/2013 11:46:33 am

I really like the smoked meats used to be myself and I smoked, and it was really delicious.

Lizzy
17/8/2013 12:19:53 pm

Hi Gyuri... me too! : )

Fiona Maclean link
17/8/2013 09:18:50 pm

Irish and Scottish smoked foods are usually fabulous! These look pretty amazing - now, maybe I could just pop across to taste;)

Lizzy
17/8/2013 10:01:15 pm

Fiona, I think you definitely should ; )

Aleney @ BoyEatsWorld link
18/8/2013 12:18:10 am

I adore smoked meats and a visit to Pialligo is definitely top of my to do list on my next visit to the ACT

Lizzy
18/8/2013 09:10:59 am

Hi Aleney... indeed... or to the Capital Region Farmer's Market where you will find Peter and Charlie selling their goodies.

Caro
20/8/2013 03:53:09 pm

I love smoked foods! Too much probably! I have a little fish smoker that I use for meats and fish (I'm yet to try vegies). I plonk it down on the bricks outside, sit in my stripey deckchair and keep a keen eye on the wistful beagle as it smokes away.

Lizzy
20/8/2013 08:47:07 pm

Oh man, that sounds soooooooooo good!


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