Seafood - Think outside the box.

Just wanted to have a quick natter about seafood.  I love it, I could eat it every day!

The variety you can get from the ocean is immense, fish, prawns, crabs, lobsters, scallops these are just a few of the things that any good fish monger will have.

But then you have the things that alot of people look at and move right past as they are a bit put off by it, the one I see most often is Octopus.  On my recent trip to the Sydney Fish Markets I often heard people saying things like 'gross' and 'eewww' at the octopus, not fair in my book.  I love Octopus, I usually buy the baby ones and marinade them in a simple marinade of, crushed garlic, red wine and a splash of olive oil.  Sometimes I throw a chopped chili in as well.  You have to cook octopus quickly, it really can toughen up but in my opinion it is the nicest meat in our ocean.  If you get a BBQ nice and hot, grill them tentacle down first on a high heat and they will go crispy and add an amazing texture.  You can also eat it raw, buy a larger one and cut very thin slices off the legs and have it sashimi style with a bit of lemon juice, beautiful!

So next time you go to the markets or the fish mongers, get something you have never tried before, it may just end up your favourite food in the whole world, don't be afriad to 'break the rules' and not just get a piece of fish and some prawns!!

Ant

Farmers Markets

I am going to the Sydney Fish Markets on Saturday and on the way back I am going to stop by one of the big farmers markets in Sydney.  Farmers markets are really important to me, you get great produce from people that care about what they do, as well as not paying the supermarket prices.

I am hoping to get some really nice organic beef and a nice bit of pork as well.

I think its incredibly important to support our farmers and I hope you all stop by the next farmers market you see!  I will let you know how I get on!

Go Organic

Something I really wanted to add to our site was a section on the actual food we eat. Not the recipes or the way we cook it, but the food itself. I am going to start with something we are all familiar with, meat.

Free range meat is something I feel incredibly strong about, I believe that everyone should be eating it instead of the battery farms producing most of the meat on the supermarket shelves. I understand that the meat costs more, but to me the reasons for this are well worth my extra money.

Free range organic animals are reared outside where they belong, fed the actual food they require to lead a long life before slaughter, they build muscle from roaming that makes the meat so much tastier and best of all, they lead a happy healthy life.

Chickens are the best example, so many of them a reared indoors in a battery factory. Lighting is used to trick them into thinking it is always daytime so they constantly eat getting fat for the shelves. Most of them can barely walk they are so overweight and unhealthy, yet so many people still want them. Pound for pound your average battery chicken costs less than dog food, is that really good enough for you and your family?

The only reason that battery farms exist is because there is simply a market for cheap tasteless meat in the stores. If people stopped buying it, they would be forced to go free range or go bust. I know it is likely that this will never happen, and many more influential people then you or I have done their best to stop it, but if we vote with our feet, we can all make a difference.

Next time you go to the supermarket, or even better your local butcher, just buy that free range meat, just once, give it a try. I promise you the flavour of the meat, as well as the feeling of knowing it led a good life will make you spend that little extra every time you go back.

Thanks all

Ant

Relaunch

Due to certain restraints we have had to leave the site for a while.  We are now back on board full time and going to take the site to other areas as well.  Not just posting recipes, but also trying to educate as well as get real food back on to peoples plates.

Bare with us as we get the new content together, dont forget to hit like at the bottom of the page!!