⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readThis is the sauce I make when I want something that works with the fat in kingfish rather than against it. The anchovy is the decision – three fillets pressed into the oil until they dissolve completely, shifting the base from sharp to savoury before anything else goes in. The fish stock cubes do the…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readThe question I was working through was whether orange zest or desert lime served the Abrolhos scallop better – two completely different types of citruses, two completely different things happening on the palate. The orange zest won. It releases fragrance and bitter citrus oil as you eat rather than juice, and it does something the…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readI picked up Smoky Bay oysters and spent the next few hours in the kitchen playing – which is how most of my best recipes start. I had frozen desert limes in the freezer and green finger lime pearls waiting, and I wanted to know what would happen if I let the desert lime do…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readCarp is often overlooked, but it’s a surprisingly versatile, sustainable, and flavourful fish that shines when given the right treatment. Trying this carp burger recipe is not just about embracing a new protein source – it’s about transforming an underappreciated fish into a delicious, healthy meal that’s perfect for grilling, pan-searing, or even shaping into…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readI first came across masala chai blends on work trips to India in the late 2000s – the smell of cardamom and star anise hitting a hot pan is something that stays with you. Back home in Adelaide, I started working those same spices into my winter porridge, and the result is this bowl: oats…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readGoolwa Pipis from the Goolwa Pipi Co. come live, fresh, and de-sanded – wild caught from the pristine waters off the Coorong National Park and supplied through Fair Seafood SA. That last detail changes things in the kitchen: no worrying about grit in the finished pasta. A rinse under cold water and they’re ready. Two…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readSpencer Gulf prawns don’t need much, and that’s the point. I’ve been cooking this in under twenty minutes for years – it started as a weeknight fix when I had good prawns and didn’t want to do anything complicated with them. I source mine through Fair Seafood; they come sweet and full-flavoured, and the shells…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readPotato and leek soup has been in my winter rotation for years, and its value to me goes beyond the bowl. The base doubles as the starting point for my mashed potato – I hold some back before blending, add butter, cream and cheese, and it becomes something else entirely. The technique is simple: butter,…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 7 min readThe memory that sits behind this loaf takes me back to 1990 and the opening of a hotel at Brighton Le Sands in Sydney. I was there with my significant other for breakfast, and what stayed with me wasn’t the standard continental breakfast or the coffee but a fig and walnut bread, still warm with…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readThere’s a short window each autumn when fresh figs are at their peak, and I was lucky enough to pick these directly from Willabrand Figs – fruit straight off the tree doesn’t get much better. My preference for a cake like this is Spanish figs – their density and sweetness are hard to beat –…
