I spent most of my career working with seafood while running Australia’s largest recreational cooking school, Sydney Seafood School at Sydney Fish Market. I love the quality and diversity of Australian seafood and I’ve learnt a bit about preparing it from my chef friends over the years, we even wrote a book on it! Here are some of my favourite seafood recipes.
Saint-Pierre Meunière Like Saint-Pierre Meunière? You’ll love my online French cooking class! Meunière is a classic French sauce especially popular with flat fish (often sole). Saint-Pierre meunière is a great example of how the most basic ingredients – in this case flour, butter, a little parsley and lemon juice – can produce the most delicious […]
Prawn Bisque with Stracciatella Wondering what to do with the prawn meat after making bisque? Try these easy prawn recipes! Classic French bisque gets its flavour from the shells (mainly the heads) of shellfish, making it a very inexpensive soup. You can make bisque from any crustacean – crabs, lobsters, freshwater crayfish (such as yabbies […]
Steamed Fish with Ginger & Spring Onion Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Chinese cooking class! The classic Chinese dish of steamed fish with ginger and spring onion is traditionally prepared with whole fish, but it’s just as delicious with fillets. The rice wine, soy sauce, sesame oil and peanut oil combine to make […]
Creamy Seafood Crepes Who says seafood & cheese don’t mix? Discover more delicious seafood & cheese recipes! These creamy seafood crepes make a delicious light meal with a green salad or a tasty starter if you serve one per person. Vary the seafood and herbs if you like, white fish, crab meat and bugs or […]
Cozze Gratinate Eat cozze gratinate with me on a small-group Southern Italian food & wine tour – see video below! Cozze gratinate, often called mussels au gratin, is a recipe that busts the myth that seafood and cheese don’t go together in Italian cuisine. I don’t always love mussels, but when I have them like […]
Scallop Mornay Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class! It may be retro, but scallop mornay is a thing – and if it’s your thing, this is the best scallop mornay recipe I know. There are two types of scallops commonly available in Australia, technically they’re called commercial scallops and saucer scallops. […]
Prawn Saganaki Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Greek cooking class! Prawn saganaki, or garides me Feta as it’s sometimes called in Greek, is a popular taverna dish in seafood-loving Greece. The saganaki is a two-handled copper baking dish in which the prawns are often cooked and served. It also gives its name to […]
Tuna Crudo with Stracciatella & Pistachio Pesto Who says seafood & cheese don’t mix? Discover more delicious seafood & cheese recipes! Vannella Cheese creative director, Anthony Silvio, and I put our heads together to bust the myth that seafood and cheese don’t mix. We discovered delicious traditional recipes combining seafood and cheese, and created a […]
Scallops with ‘Nduja Butter & Scamorza Who says seafood & cheese don’t mix? Discover more delicious seafood & cheese recipes! Vannella Cheese creative director, Anthony Silvio, and I put our heads together to bust the myth that seafood and cheese don’t mix. We discovered delicious traditional recipes combining seafood and cheese, and created a few […]
How To Prepare & Cook Mussels Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Once popular as snacks that could be freely harvested or bought cheaply (and known as ‘poor man’s oysters’), mussels are still one of the most affordable shellfish around. Australian mussels are called blue mussels due […]
