Posts Tagged bruny island

Hot Honey Smoked Salmon with Basil Bearnaise and Fast Pickled Cucumbers

Earlier this week Dad and I had planned to head out flathead fishing, but we had heard of some Atlantic salmon escaping from one of the fish farms down the Channel so we quickly changed our plans. You don’t really have to get up early for Atlantics, so we kept gentlemans hours for this trip [...]

No Fish Today

No fish today – mainly due to the guy in the top photo. He must have been pretty full by the time we pulled stumps. Sausages for tea it is then.

Mussels in Saffron Cream

The other day we went down to the shack and dad and I got a few mussels off the moorings out the front with the plan to make mussels in a saffron sauce. I came up with this after I had been in Sweden and noticed they use a lot of cream and saffron in [...]

Pea, Asparagus & Ham Risotto

There is something about this recipe that is very ‘me’! For starters it has peas and asparagus – two things I am very fond of, then it is a risotto which is nice and creamy and cheese-y, and thirdly it is a wonderful green colour and I absolutely love green! I frequently visit A Common [...]

Calamari with Homemade Tartare Sauce

Last weekend we made a trip down to the shack at Bruny Island with a few friends. The weather was perfect so we went and caught a few calamari until the boat decided it didn’t want to start. It didn’t matter, we already had a feed, so we retired to the deck for a bbq. [...]