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Pink Snapper Ceviche with Butter Bean Salad and Corn Chips
I feel so lucky right now, all of my hard work over the last couple of years is definitely paying off. I am writing this post from my camping chair, under palm trees, next to the ocean, sipping a glass...
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Coconut Crusted Prawns with a Lentil, Tomato, Cucumber, Coriander Salad and...
I’m in heaven at the moment. Camping in a tiny fishing village called Karumba in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It has one shop, one petrol station, one guy that sells mud crabs, one caravan park that...
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Spiced Salt and Szechuan Pepper Squid with Sweet and Sour Chilli Sauce and...
You know that little jig that some people do when they are really happy; a little dance that they just can’t contain when they are really excited about something? Well, I witnessed someone do this...
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Chipotle Prawns with Adobo Mayonnaise and Capsicum Salsa
I haven’t always liked prawns. I remember the first prawn I ever ate. It was at one of my parents’ work christmas parties in some garage somewhere. As is mandatory at every Australian Christmas party,...
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Sesame Roasted Salmon and Soba Noodle Salad with Miso Glazed Pumpkin.
After a beautiful afternoon of canoeing on the river, watching the sunset, I was pretty happy to discover that I had all the ingredients at home to make this delicious, healthful salad. I love the...
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King Prawn, Watermelon and Feta Salad with Spelt Crisps
So after months of planning, I’m finally on the road. I arrived in Queensland today, I’m pretty sure the sun came out as I crossed the border. Walking around the streets and breathing in the flowery,...
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Breakfast for a (complicated) Crowd. Potato and Caper Rösti with Smoked...
I’ve had this recipe waiting in the wings for a couple of months now. It’s perfect for a lazy weekend breakfast where you sit around for so long afterwards that you don’t end up getting the dishes...
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Mango and Ginger Chilli Sauce
We’re back on the east coast at the moment and man is it good. There’s nothing like a few months in the outback to make you realise how lucky we are to have grown up here. Our first dip … Continue...
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Green Curry Fish Cakes with Mango Mayo and Salad Cups
Just jumped off the plane back in Darwin tonight, to the stifling heat, ground shaking thunder storms, magical lightning and ‘hopefully’, some torrential rain. We are headed into a month of...
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Seafood Laksa (kind of)
This is another favourite from the weekend markets here in Darwin, each stall has their own recipe; all equally delicious. I wouldn’t ever claim this to be anywhere near an authentic replica, I used a...
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Green Papaya, Rambutan and Crunchy Coconut Salad with Tamarind Dressing
As I sit here, waiting for these photos to up-load, I look at my hands. They are weathered, scarred, with dirty fingernails and lots of little cuts and pricks due to my current job featuring way to...
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Marinated Baby Octopus Salad with Lemon Pangrattato
After a long day at work, I love the ritual of creating and cooking dinner. Due to my brainless job, I get to spend the whole day thinking about ingredients and coming up with ideas for future recipes....
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Sardine and Olive Scrolls with Herbed Cream Cheese
Since winning a hamper at Christmas time, filled with marinated goodies and antipasto ingredients, I’ve had a jar of marinated sardine fillets, sitting at the back of the fridge, looking lonely and...
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Oysters with Pickled Cucumber (and a note on how to make a ‘Japanese Slipper’)
I understand the appeal of oysters, there is something wild and exciting about eating a creature like this, freshly shucked and still alive, smelling of the ocean as you tip it up to your lips….. and...
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Ceviche with Avocado and Mango Salsa and Tortilla Chips (and my entry into a...
Since starting this blog a couple of years ago, I’m quite surpised at how far I’ve come, and how much I have learnt, all through the process of trial and error. I always strive for something better,...
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Tamarind and Lime Pickled Leader Prawns with Green Papaya and Rambutan Salad
Talk about being pushed out of my comfort zone, this week I spoke on live to air radio about cooking, my blog, local produce, and how I work with it in each place I visit. It all happened within a …...
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Chilli Mud Crab
Have you ever had one of those days where you want to throw yourself on the floor and have a massive tantrum like a lollipop denied three year old in the grocery store? Well, this is my third day...
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Banana Flower, Jicama and Coconut Salad with Fish Baked in Banana Leaves
On the weekend we were invited to a big bush party on a property about an hour out of Darwin. Friends of the people we have been staying with (who have also become our friends), were having a big...
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Crunchy Nut Fish with Wasabi Mayo and Veggie Chips
This is a funky recipe, shown to me by an awesome guy we have been staying with, it’s not often I’ll take a shortcut like this when preparing food, but I thought this little trick was too good not to …...
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Pickled Fish Four Ways
There’s no recipe here, just some ideas for the endless flavour combinations for pickled fish. So many cultures and countries around the world have their own versions, and it’s so easy to make up your...
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