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Saks Restaurant Bar Marina Mirage Broadwater
Saks Lamb Rack With Smoky Eggplant
Saks Restaurant and Bar, located at Marina Mirage, was one of several top Gold Coast restaurants to exhibit flair at the Gold Coast Good Food & Wine Show this weekend. Tasty samples were being served, and lovers of fine food were lining up to sample Saks roasted lamb rack with smoky eggplant puree. Saks hosts Angelo, Bianca and Frank Parente were even kind enough to share their recipe with the public.

Ingredients (4 serves)
2 Eggplants
60ml Olive oil
1 Garlic clove
2tblsp Lemon Juice
2 Lamb Racks with eight cutlets on each
40g Butter
400g Cherry tomatoes, halved
4 Marjoram Sprigs

Method for eggplant puree
Prick the eggplants all over with a fork.
Place on a char grill pan and cook over a medium heat, turning occasionally, for 20-25 mins or until the skin is very soft and the skin is very charred. Cool thn cut the eggplants in half and scoop out the flesh. Process the flesh in a food processor with olive oil, garlic & lemon juice until smooth, then season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper.

Broadwater Marina Mirage Seaworld Main Beach
Arriving At Marina Mirage From the Broadwater
Preheat oven to 190°c cut the lamb racks in half then brush with a little olive oil and season. Heat a large oven proof frying pan over high heat and brown the lamb racks, fat side down, for 1-2 min. turn over then transfer the pan to the oven and roast for 5 mins. Turn the racks fat side up and roast for a further 5 mins for medium-rare. Remove from oven and rest in a warm place for 10 mins.
Meanwhile heat the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the tomatoes, season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 mins or until the tomatoes are slightly pulpy but still holding their shape.
To serve, spoon the eggplant puree among the plates. Cut the lamb racks into double cutlets and place two on each plate. Spoon over the tomato mixture and garnish with marjoram sprigs.

Saks Restaurant and Bar is on the waterfront at Marina Mirage on Seaworld Drive, Main Beach, and is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. Fully licensed with an extensive cellar, there is live entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights from 9pm and on Sundays from 2.30pm. This months special is a dozen oysters natural or Kilpatrick with a pot of Coopers Pale Ale for just $17.95!
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Celebrity chef Daran Glasgow cooking demonstration
Celebrity Chef Daran Glasgow Cooking Demonstration
The second annual Gold Coast Good Food And Wine Show is being held at the convention centre at Broadbeach this weekend. With almost a hundred exhibitors offering product samples, discounts, wine tasting, cooking demonstrations, appliances, utensils, cook books and coffee making competitions, visitors are sure to find something to suit their tastes.
Saks Restaurant Marin Mirage Food Show
Saks Hosts Angelo, Bianca and Frank Parente

Celebrity chefs Andre Tabet, Alison Taafe, Peter Howard and Daran Glasgow are displaying their talent in the Coles Celebrity Kitchen, while some of the Gold Coasts top restaurants are presenting a popular selection from their menus. Gold Coast restaurants were absent from last years show, but Saks at Marina Mirage, Chill on Tedder, the Gold Coast Arts Centre, The Tandoori Place and numerous others deserve commendation for rectifying that


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Gordon Ramsay Hits Sanctuary Cove

June 14th 2009 02:16
celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in Australia
Image courtesy of Wikipedia
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has landed on the Gold Coast amid a storm of controversy. The potty mouthed Brit arrived in Australia to perform at the Sydney and Melbourne Good Food Shows and will now be demonstrating his culinary flair at a series of exclusive dinners at the Hyatt Regency, Sanctuary Cove.

Mr Ramsay made headlines in Australia and the old Blighty during a recent A Current Affair interview with Tracy Grimshaw. During the interview Mr Ramsay made numerous derogatory remarks, including referring to a mole on Ms Grimshaws’ lip as ‘your little sister


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