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.
Prawn Salad with Mustard Fruits Like this recipe? Visit Modena with me on my small group food & wine tour of Northern Italy. This is the pescatarian version of a simple, delicious chicken salad I had in Modena. It’s the mustard fruit, pine nuts and balsamic vinegar that make it special. Of course you could […]
Porcini Risotto with Salmon Join my Small Group Food & Wine Tour to Northern Italy – Home of Risotto! While salmon isn’t indigenous to Italian waters – preferring the colder oceans further north – it is very popular in Italy. It’s delicious served with this earthy porcini risotto and the pink flesh contrasts beautifully too. […]
Ocean Trout with Spicy Onion Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Italian cooking class featuring the food of Southern Italy! Cooking fish almost entirely on the skin protects the delicate flesh, keeping it moist and succulent. The skin usually ends up a bit charred and looking slightly the worse for wear, so I […]
Grilled Prawns with Pear & Walnut Salad Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Italian cooking class featuring the food of Southern Italy! Grilled prawns with pear and walnut salad is the perfect dish for entertaining as most of the preparation can be done ahead of time, and cooking the prawns only on the shell […]
Grilled Swordfish with Salmoriglio Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Swordfish (pesce spada) is one of the most popular fish in the Mediterranean. In southern Italy it’s often grilled and served with the classic olive oil and herb sauce, salmoriglio (see video below). It has a […]
Spaghetti alle Vongole al Cartoccio Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy & Rome and dine with me at Ristorante da Ciccio! Spaghetti alle vongole is the classic Italian clam dish. Vongole means ‘clam’ in Italian and I use the small South Australian vongole that are closest to Italy’s vongole veraci, but you […]
How To Toast Shrimp Paste Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes https://youtu.be/D_VwcqnTHEM Fermented shrimp paste is used widely throughout Southeast Asia to add depth and savouriness to dishes. It’s called belacan in Malay, terasi in Indonesian, and gapi in Thai. There are minor variations between the different […]
Oyster Omelette Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! This recipe brings back memories of my first trip to Singapore – and my first meal at Newton Circus hawker centre. I’ve seen the translation of oyster omelette written so many ways, including or luak, orh luak, orr chien, orh jian and o-a-tsian. […]
Fish Head Curry Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! Fish head curry is a classic Singaporean and Malaysian dish. It’s said to have originated in Singapore in the 1950s, though it seems likely that thrifty housewives were finding ways to make fish heads tasty long before then, after all the meat […]
Singapore Chilli Crab Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! Chilli crab is perhaps the dish most synonymous with Singapore. It’s found all over the island, from hawker stalls to fine diners, as well as being the most popular Singaporean dish abroad. I’ve played around with recipes for Singaporean chilli crab since […]