Lets Do Lunch (around the world).

It works now, nice picture.

^ unfortunately, that photo did not come out over here.

Did you catch the fish yourself?

js wrote: I like the oysters too, but I ate too many once and get very sick.

They are a lot heavier than people think. I usually have just half a dozen if big. I like them natural with just a little pepper on them. With high quality food I just like it as it is John. I love Crawfish ( Lobster), we actually call them crayfish here but those are technically fresh water ,eat them too but with the crawfish just cut them in half and grill them slow in Ghee  (clarified butter). Serve with just a bit of lemon and pepper...............yum.  Also make sure the crawfish is alive when you get it, not boiled which is only okay for salad or making Mornay, Newburg , Thermidor etc.  Even steak is the same for me just salt and pepper, Medium rare. 

New Nepalese Restaurant down the road. Best curried goat going. Serve with Saffron rice. Been very popular in the area. Also went to a pub down in Clifton Hill Melbourne (The Royal). Food was nice, had the Seafood Boullabaise. I love my seafood as grew up in the sixties near the coast and ate fish, scallops, crawfish, oysters and prawns on a regular basis and they were not expensive. These days it is not the same due to population increase ( population has doubled since (11 mill to 24 mill) and the local stuff gets rarer by the week with the quality. In the late seventies I used to regularly dive the local scallop beds (Rye) and get a couple of garbage bin loads. After cleaning there was about 2 kg of flesh. Be lucky to get just two these days with shell. I used to eat em' raw when I was cleaning them and they were big juicy ones

Edited by Matt - 25 Feb 2015 at 5:28pm

That reminds me, I definitely want to find some cachaca this summer and make this!    

I made an all time favorite tonight, beer cheddar soup. This is a difficult soup to make correctly, and its easy to come up with a nasty mess, but tonight was perfect and what a great winter meal.

Mushrooms cooked in butter with a little black pepper is also good.

This summer was too hot and dry,but September gave us unusually huge crop of wild mushrooms in forests.  Collecting wild mushrooms is kind of national sport here 

Atkingani wrote: js wrote: That fish stew looks good too. I've had somewhat similar dishes, possibly a Spanish recipe. Probably the paella... very similar. But I think they use rice at the paella and tomato was added later.

I do a Puerto Rican version called Aso Pao; it's delicious but has sausage, chicken and ham instead of seafood.