New Stuff
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We are pleased to release our new range of vegetarian dips to the market. They consist of 3 traditional middle eastern flavours:
 
 
 
 
Hommos - a traditional chick pea dip which is best eaten with pita bread.
Babaganoush - an oven roasted eggplant dip with garlic & a hint of lemon.
Nivik - a tasty spinach, tomato & chick pea dip that originates from Armenia.
 
 
 
You can find these dips at:
Fresh Provisions - Bicton, The Boatshed - Cottesloe, Brighton Road Food Market - Scarborough, Herdsman Fresh Essentials - Churchlands, Malibu Fresh - Safety Bay, Kirkwood Deli - Cottesloe, Carlton Fresh - East Perth, IGA Shenton Park, Farmer Jacks - Subiaco
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
These new shortcrust pastry style of Gourmet Pies are filled with a rich green lentil, celery & potato pie curry filling and then oven baked until they are golden brown. They join our other range of puff pastry pies - Spinach & Potato, Thai Pumpkin, & Spinach & Tofu puffs.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Check out Wilkes Surfboards
Our friends over at Wilkes Surfboards, also located in Golden Bay, have just launched their new web site. So go to www.wilkessurfboards.com to see their new range of boards which cater for everybody, from beginners or malibu  to hardcore big wave riders.
 
Gone Surfin - Secret Harbour Surf School
Doug Kitchingham from Gone Surfin also located in Golden Bay, has just launched his new web site for his Secret Harbour learn to surf school. So go to www.gonesurfin.com.au to check it out. Doug & his team have had over 30 years experience in surfing and surf coaching with an impeccable safety record. Gone Surfin Surf School takes advantage of Secret Harbour’s excellent surf beach to ensure the most enjoyable lessons are available with various degrees of difficulty from beginners to advanced surfers.
 
Cool Stuff Blog
Check out this new blog developed by Trevor from Gourmet Cookies & Pies, which discusses all sorts of stuff from politics, to technology, sport, music, alternative lifestyles, surfing, weather and just about anything really. For mac users it even has a free vegetarian widget that has lots of vegan vegetarian recipes on it that you can try. http://coolstuff.wordpress.com/
 
 
New Vegetarian Dips New Lentil Pies Other cool links New web site
 
We are very excited to release out into the wild, our new web site that we have been working on for a while now. As well as some much needed aesthetic improvements, we have included for the first time a “Podcast” section in which we will be uploading video podcasts (or vodcasts) that you can download to your computer, on vegetarian cooking in which we will be showing you a few tips & tricks every month about how to cook simple but tasty & healthy vegetarian food. We even have a free vegetarian widget for Mac OSX users that you can download by clicking on the icon at the right.
 
 
 
 
Business Sense TV Series
 
Gourmet Cookies and Pies were recently featured in the new Business Sense TV Series which has been aired on Channel Nine, Foxtel Business channel & Qantas infight entertainment. The weekly show sponsored by Vodafone aims to empower new businesses, inspire existing businesses and motivate those that are growing. Each episode includes interviews with small business owners, talking about how they're growing their businesses and the trials they've been through to get to where they are today. We really enjoyed the entire process of making this episode and are very pleased that our business was chosen to be featured alongside such vibrant & successful small businesses. Read more about it here: http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,24440795-5012425,00.html Watch our episode here: Watch the segment here. http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,24440795-5012425,00.htmlPodcasts/2E7BB548-0734-4322-B876-6646835106BE.htmlshapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1
Click here to download our free vegetarian widget for Mac OSX users Small Business Champion Awards
 
We are very proud to announce that Gourmet Cookies and Pies won a WA Small Business Champion Award at the Perth Convention Centre on Friday the 28th September 2007.
Nominated for the Gourmet Foods and Takeaway category in the Champion Awards Awards, Gourmet Cookies and Pies will now compete against other finalists from across Australia in November at the Star City Casino in Sydney.
Gourmet Cookies & Pies started from humble beginnings with no finance or business experience and rented a restaurant kitchen one day a week in Perth to make their cookies and pies.
Gourmet Cookies and Pies now operates from their own commercial kitchen in Golden Bay, employs seven staff and supplies a range of heat and eat meals, pies, cookies and deli products to over sixty outlets across Perth and Mandurah.
New Vegetarian Heat & Eat meals
 
                                                                        We are very exited to release three new Heat & Eat meals onto the market to compliment our five original flavours.
Dhal -  a mild split pea & vegetable curry.
Garlic & mushroom - a rich & creamy pasta dish.
Risotto - a traditional Italian rice & vegetables dish
You can these new products at quality retailers all over Perth including Fresh Provisions - Claremont, Mt Lawley & Bicton, The Boatshed - Cottesloe, Herdsman Fresh Essentials - Churchlands , Brighton Road Food Market - Scarborough, Malibu Fresh - Rockingham,  IGA Supermarkets and many more...