I saw an episode of Jamie Oliver’s American Food Revolution, where they were teaching people to cook corn on the cob with chili and lime. The flavour combination inspired these. They work really well.
Capsicums and chilis are right in season now and I’m harvesting both.
Bream is not one of my favourite fish, but it’s one of the easier ones to catch, and Lewie likes fishing. I could never get appropriately excited about the catch until I discovered just how easy Thai Fish Cakes are to make
If I had just one pot to plant now, what would I be planting in it?
We are harvesting the first macadamias of the season, and by the look of our trees it will be a good year. And the basil…
After floods followed by heat wave, my garden has practically no leafy greens in it. But that’s ok. Summer salads need more crunch and cool than leaf-based salads anyway. This is one of my favourite summer salads, great with anything on a barbeque.
Beans are like octopus – they need to be cooked either very fast or very slow.
I remember when I was quite a small child my grandfather had a shack on Bribie Island. Just before dusk, he would take his rod and walk down to the beach. We kids would play in the shallows and barely have time to make a sandcastle before it was time to head back with a bucket full of whiting fillets.
We stopped in at a fish shop on the way home from visiting our daughter at the coast yesterday. I had just bought a half kilo of squid, thinking calamari, when I noticed they had snapper frames at a ridiculously low price.
These are the perfect party plate. They are best cold (though in our house a good percentage don’t make it that far). If you have a garden, most of the ingredients will come out of it.