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Geoff’s Responsible Burger – Sustainable Carp with Garden Herb Sour Cream Burger or Fish Balls – Your Sustainable Choice…
ByAncientGrains63 25/04/202630/04/2026

⏱️ 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…

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GEOFF’s Goolwa Pipis and Spaghetti…
ByAncientGrains63 06/04/202606/04/2026

⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 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…

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GEOFF’s Pasta and Prawns Recipe…
ByAncientGrains63 29/03/202629/03/2026

⏱️ 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 SA; they come sweet and full-flavoured, and the…

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Beyond the Smell | What the Rottnest Ferry Jetty Taught Me About Buying Fresh Fish
ByAncientGrains63 26/03/202630/03/2026

⏱️ 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…

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GEOFF’s Crustacean Stock…
ByAncientGrains63 04/03/202625/04/2026

⏱️ 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…

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GEOFF’s Baked Ōra King Salmon with a Yoghurt Tahini and Macadamia Dukkha…
ByAncientGrains63 03/03/202604/03/2026

⏱️ 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…

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GEOFF’s Sardines for Brunch, Lunch, Share or Dinner Two Ways…
ByAncientGrains63 02/03/202602/03/2026

⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 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…

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GEOFF’s Oven Gratin Abrolhos Scallops with Garlic Herb Crumb…
ByAncientGrains63 01/03/202601/03/2026

⏱️ 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…

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GEOFF’s Grilled Abrolhos Scallops with Preserved Lemon Butter…
ByAncientGrains63 01/03/202601/03/2026

⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readGrilling scallops in the half-shell over high heat is one of those techniques that looks effortless but demands your full attention for the thirty seconds it takes. The flame – whether that’s a teppanyaki plate, a barbeque, or a cast-iron pan – imparts a light char and a smoky edge that you simply can’t replicate…

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Tools of the Tide | Essential Kitchen Utensils for Cooking Seafood at Home
ByAncientGrains63 25/02/202625/02/2026

⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 7 min readSpend enough time working with precision tools and you begin to understand something that doesn’t get said often enough: a tool’s value isn’t in its presence, it’s in what it allows you to do reliably. In dental technology, I worked with instruments that could do a specific job and nothing else – a margin trimmer…

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