⏱️ 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 | 3 min readThere is a debate that has persisted for decades about whether a glass is half empty or half full. It is meant to reveal character – optimist or pessimist, grateful or ungrateful. I’ve never found it particularly useful. The framing assumes the glass is the right size. Most of the time, it isn’t. Wine people…
⏱️ 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 readI was eleven or twelve, standing at the Rotto ferry jetty in mid-to late afternoon with half dozen bags of freshly filleted herring and a separate bag of ice to keep them cold. The day trippers were loading up for the crossing back to Perth, and we’d worked out early that departing visitors were reliably…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readI’ve been thinking about how the French approach a fish market. Not the romanticised version you see on cooking shows, but the practical reality: at a good Marché, you don’t just buy fish – you have a conversation first. The vendor wants to know what you’re planning. Baking or grilling? A soup, or something to…
⏱️ 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 –…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 6 min readFor years, I threw away prawn heads, crab shells, and crayfish bodies without a second thought. Then, while developing my Sand Crab Lasagne a dish inspired by those unforgettable nights at Il Centro in Brisbane – I realised the shells I was discarding were the most flavourful thing in the pot. That moment changed how…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readThis baked Ōra King Salmon is one of my absolute favourite dishes when I’m entertaining – it looks spectacular on the table yet requires minimal effort. I source my Ōra King Salmon from Fair Seafood in Adelaide. This premium fish comes from the pristine, cold waters of Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand, and honestly, the…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 6 min readFresh sardines are one of the great unsung heroes of Australian coastal cooking, and I never tire of finding new ways to bring them to the table. I grew up knowing sardines mainly from a tin, but once I started buying them fresh from the market – their skin gleaming silver and their flesh firm…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readThis was one of the recipes I featured in the SoFISHticated Masterclass last year, and it went down an absolute treat. The gratinée technique – a simple garlic-herb crumb baked over the scallop until golden – is one of those preparations that looks and tastes far more complex than it actually is. The crumb is…
