⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readI use steam when I want to control texture – it’s a method, like sous vide, where the environment does the work and the result is precise rather than incidental. My steam oven sets temperature only – the steam is simply how the appliance works. That single variable, temperature, is what changes the texture of…
⏱️ 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 readGrowing up, our family holidays at Rotto were all about those secret abalone spots we’d guard like treasure – places only we knew where the black lips clung to the limestone ledges. I can still remember the thrill of free diving down, carefully prying them from the rocks, then racing back to our camp at…
