My local fisho tells me that his mackerel is line caught, and that’s always a good thing as far as sustainability goes: no bycatch and no complete decimation of breeding populations. Good Fish Bad Fish lists mackerel as sustainable too. It’s high in Omega 3 and low in mercury, and it has a nice firm texture with few bones. It’s an oily fish that goes well with acid tomato based…
Turmeric likes my subtropical climate, which is very lucky because fresh turmeric is one of my all-time favourite spices and hugely healthy. I have a patch of it that takes absolutely no attention. All I do with it is dig up a rhizome when I want it for curries or stir fries or to add a touch of spiciness to just about anything.
I had two recipe successes at the beach, and this is the other one. I live with a bloke whose idea of bliss is standing thigh deep in ocean on an overcast day using all the sensory skills of a hunter. We were at a good fishing beach, there was a nice east coast low making perfect conditions, he spent many hours at it. And still, we ended up at…
This has been a very recurring staple in our household lately, one of my very favourite recipes for both dinner parties and just us at home. It’s really fast and easy and cheap and healthy for weeknight dinners, but also good enough that it’s been our dinner party go-to recipe lately too. It’s easy to glam it up a bit and serve with crusty sourdough to make it special.
It’s not a very interesting photo till you know what it is. This is the culvert crossing our creek after over a month now of pretty non-stop rain and several floods. The next crossing down is so brown that you cannot see the bottom and the river as it runs through town is the colour of cocoa. But this one is clear.
New Zealand green lipped mussels are listed as sustainable, and our local supermarket had them this week for less than $5 a kilo. We may be the last ever generation to be able to readily afford seafood like this so it had to be worth inviting friends for dinner. They have a lot of food miles, coming from New Zealand, and they’re frozen. But in the scheme of compromises you…
The fishing hasn’t improved. He’s still catching mostly Australian salmon. Luckily, the recommendations are to eat oily fish at least a couple of times a week, and Australian salmon are one of the best oily fish. And they’re one of the few on the list that are sustainable – gemfish are a threatened species, blue-eye trevalla are often long-line fished, Atlantic salmon are all farmed, and canned tuna is overfished,…
Australian salmon are not a salmon at all, but a sea perch. They’re listed as sustainable and that’s at least partly because they are notoriously not a prized table fish. They are a good source of omega 3 though, and they can be turned into a good fish dinner with a bit of care.
Mullet are undervalued. My partner remembers seeing them buried on the beach by the thousands, bycatch regarded as too cheap to bother selling. Though those days are over they’re still regarded as sustainable, and really fresh mullet are one of my favourite eating fish. Fresh fillets are not too strong flavoured, and they’re super cheap and a really good source of Omega 3.
A high level international workshop has just released a report warning that the combination of global warming (with the oceans warming faster than the land…