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.
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 […]
Salad with Bottarga & Persian Fetta Like bottarga? You’ll love my online Sardinian cooking class! Bottarga – salted, dried mullet roe – is the most popular seasoning in Sardinia. It’s grated over pasta, sliced as an antipasto, shaved over salad and beaten into butter to melt over steak (see video below). Much of the bottarga […]
Trout & Persian Fetta Pinwheel Rolls Like smoked trout? Discover more easy recipes using preserved & smoked seafood! The lavash used for these tasty little pinwheel rolls is flat, rectangular Middle Eastern bread popular for making wraps. It’s also called mountain bread; don’t confuse it with crisp lavosh crackers, which won’t work in this recipe. […]
Smoked Salmon Crostini Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Traditional Italian cooking class! These smoked salmon crostini are simple, versatile and delicious: top crisp croutons with a creamy, herby spread add a piece of smoked fish and enjoy! I use chives and dill because they’re usually in the herb patch, but you could use […]
Pan-fried John Dory with Sage Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Traditional Italian cooking class! This pan-fried john dory recipe has a cross-cultural heritage. It’s a pescatarian-friendly take on the Roman veal dish saltimbocca alla Romana inspired by classic French à la meunière. La meunière is the miller’s wife, and à la meunière is […]
Pesce alla Diavola Like this recipe? Join me on a Southern Italian food & wine tour to discover more regional specialties! This recipe for pesce alla diavola – fish with chilli garlic & lemon – is inspired by the simple flavours in the classic Italian dish more often made with chicken ‘pollo alla diavola‘ (see […]
Pistachio-Crusted Salmon Like this recipe? Join me on a Southern Italian food & wine tour to discover more regional specialties! This delicious pistachio-crusted salmon is inspired by a dish served at the annual Sagra del Pistacchio di Bronte in Sicily and introduced to me by Lucio Galletto. Bronte is renowned for its pistachios which are […]
Riso, Patate e Cozze (Tiella Barese) Like this recipe? Join me on a Southern Italian food & wine tour to discover more regional specialties! One of Puglia’s most popular dishes – riso, patate e cozze (or ‘ris, patan e strazz’ in dialect) originated around Bari in the 16th century during the Spanish rule in southern […]
Potato & Scamorza Tart with Smoked Trout Like this recipe? Discover more delicious Italian dishes on my small-group Italian food & wine tours. This deliciously versatile potato & scamorza tart can be vegetarian, but potatoes and smoked fish are such natural partners that I like to add hot-smoked rainbow trout. Scamorza is an aged mozzarella, […]
