The recipe is elegant enough to be a celebration dinner, economical for a large group, and it can be made well ahead of time. And those of you who have visited before will know my thoughts about kangaroo as the red meat of choice.
It’s getting a bit cold now of an evening for barbeques, but my partner still loves fishing. Fish soup is a great way to make a dinner party of the catch, and using the whole fish – head, bones and all – I feel like an ethical predator.
If you are new to kangaroo meat, this is not a bad recipe to start out with. The preserved lemon is the interesting flavour in it, and kangaroo is a great meat for a tagine because it is so lean and dense.
I picked some lemon basil, dill and culantro from the garden and blended the herbs with a bit of lime juice, garlic and olive oil to make a thick marinade. We laid the fish on the banana leaves on the hot barbecue plate, spooned the marinade over the top, and put some whole cobs of corn and whole zucchini on the side. Guests arrived, opened the bottle of wine, turned…
I can’t say this is fast and easy. It’s a long slow Sunday afternoon recipe, and it creates quite a bit of washing up! But there’s a good return on investment – for an hour or so of Sunday afternoon baking, you can have several very healthy dinners and lunches made ready for the week.
This is not so much a recipe as a reminder. With cucumbers and mint both fully in season (going off in my garden) we have been eating a cucumber raita (or tzatziki – same recipe, just a short journey across the Middle East) as a side dish with practically every meal.
Squid are generally a fairly safe choice – they breed fast, die young, and may even be over-filling their niche as their natural predators struggle to maintain their populations.
This all started with an item in the Sunday papers about how women really should do weights training. I looked at the weights, but that idea lasted all of about two seconds.
My partner came back from a trip to the coast with octopus. I’ve cooked baby octopus before, marinated briefly and cooked fast on the barbeque. But these were a bit larger than the babies I’d cooked before. What to do with them?
As seasonal a recipe as they come, this eggplant with pizza topping is easy and fast.