The Age harvest picnic Werribee Park, Nov 27 CLICK HERE
Brown Brothers wine & food festival, Nov 20 – 21 CLICK HERE
Budburst wine & food festival, Macedon Ranges, Nov 12 – 13 CLICK HERE
Victoria’s annual olive festival, Melton, Nov 13 CLICK HERE
The Generations IV long lunch, High Country, Nov 12 CLICK HERE
Melbourne STREAT party, Nov 29 CLICK HERE
Every month we provide a summary of interesting looking food & wine events taking place in and around Victoria. Here is the summary for October. It’s a busy month!!
Mornington Peninsula October Pinot week. 8 – 16 October CLICK HERE
70′s disco train & dinner at Puffing Billy. 21 October CLICK HERE
Marysville sparkling wine festival. 25 October – 1 November CLICK HERE
Primavera at Lavandula (Central Victoria) 30 October CLICK HERE
Pfeiffer Pfrolic – Annual long lunch (Wodonga) 30 October CLICK HERE
Discover Dunkeld regional producers dinner 22 October CLICK HERE
Beechworth’s Oktoberfest 8 – 9 October CLICK HERE
Tastes of the Goulburn 15 October CLICK HERE
Mildura jazz, food & wine festival 28 – 31 October CLICK HERE
Shedfest 2011 (Yarra Valley) 8 – 9 October CLICK HERE
Heathcote wine & food festival 8 – 9 October CLICK HERE
The perfect risotto (class) – Prahran, 6 Aug, CLICK HERE
Mozzarella & Haloumi cheese making – CERES Brunswick East, 7 Aug, CLICK HERE
Gourmet Traveller Cheese & wine tasting – Grand Hyatt, 16 Aug, CLICK HERE
Chocolate rush festival – Docklands, 13 & 14 Aug, CLICK HERE
A quick course on how to taste Whisk(e)y – CBD, until 20 Aug, CLICK HERE
Frankston & South Eastern wine show 2011 – Frankston, 28 Aug, CLICK HERE
It’s my birthday on Thursday so I’ve decided to provide a small incentive to encourage you all to visit me and celebrate!! 3 courses of seafood perfection (except the dessert!!) for 2 people, just $59. That’s less than $30 per person folks. Throw your party frock on and come celebrate my Birthday (-: See the menu here www.lobstercave.com.au/pdfs/WI.pdfWe are often asked how long you can keep fish in the fridge.
Chefs have differing opinions on this. Truth is it depends on the species.
Over the years we have done extensive research on shelf-life of different fresh fish lines, and what we have always seen is that aquaculture lines have always displayed a better shelf life.
Our conservative recommendations are based on a cool room running at 5 degrees.
Aquaculture Fish ( salmon, trout ) 4 days
Wild Fish (blue eye, flathead) 2-3 days
Crustaceans (crabs, lobster) 2-3 days
Molluscs (squid, calamari) 2-3 days
In June 2011 we asked for your best jokes. You didn’t disappoint, here are a few or our favourites.
How do you drown a blonde?
Put a Mirror on the bottom of the swimming pool.
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An elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years.
He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentlemen to hear 100%.
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, ‘Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again’.
The gentleman replied
‘Oh I haven’t told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I’ve changed my will three times!’.
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As I stepped out of the shower, the Wife laughed and said my penis closely resembled a tic-tac.
“If that’s the case,” I joked, “Why does your sister still have bad breath?”
That soon wiped the smile off her face!
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The Middle Wife
By an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher.
I’ve been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second-grade classroom a few years back. When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pets, turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they’re welcome.
Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater. She holds up a snapshot of an infant. “This is Luke, my baby brother, and I’m going to tell you about his birthday. First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom’s stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord.” She’s standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I’m trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement. ”Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, ‘Oh, oh, oh, oh!’ ” Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. “She walked around the house for, like an hour, ‘Oh, oh, oh!’” Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning. ”My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn’t have a sign on the car like the Domino’s man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this.” Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall. ”And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!” This kid has her legs spread and with her little hands are miming water flowing away. It was too much! ”Then the middle wife starts saying ‘push, push,’ and ‘breathe, breathe.’ They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff, they all said it was from Mom’s play-centre!, so there must be a lot of stuff inside there.”Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat. I’m sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, if it’s show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another Erica comes along. Now you have two choices…laugh and close this page or pass this along to someone else to spread the laughs. I know what I did!!
Live every day as if it is your LAST chance to make someone happy.
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Hell and Australians
Two Aussie blokes, Kev and Bruce die at the same time and find
themselves in Hell. The Devil pays them a visit to see how they’re
getting on and finds them in shorts and t-shirts, enjoying a BBQ….
“Is this place not hot enough for you?” asks the Devil.
Bruce says “Oh mate..we’re from Australia …we love the heat
It’s just like a summer’s day.”
Feeling angry, the Devil decides he’ll fix these two and turns the heat
up to maximum. Everywhere in Hell, people are wailing and moaning from
the heat and satisfied with the result, the Devil decides to check back
in on the two Aussies.
He’s furious to find Kev and Bruce flipping the snags on the barbie,
knocking back a couple of stubbies in their thongs and singlets,
laughing and chatting.
“How can you guys be comfortable in this heat?” screams the Devil.
Everyone else in Hell is absolutely miserable, but you two are actually
enjoying it!”
“Awww come on mate…says Kev. I spent last summer in Darwin . It’s
actually nice to have some dry heat for a change”
The Devil storms off, scheming how to fix these two. After thinking
about it for a while he hits on an idea. If the two Aussies love the
heat so much, he’s gonna turn it all off, which he does. After a night
without heat, Hell is 40 below. Icicles are hanging off the roof and if
the residents were unhappy about the heat, they are now bitterly
miserable from the cold.
The next morning the Devil checks back in on the two Aussies. He finds
them jumping for joy, laughing and carrying on like they’re having the
time of their lives. The Devil is beside himself with rage and screams
“WHAT IS GOING ON? How can you two be happy about this?”
Kev says…Mate, don’t you know?
Hell’s frozen over!…
Collingwood must have won the Premiership!
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A dog is truly a man’s best friend.
If you don’t believe it, just try this experiment.
Put your dog and your wife in the boot of the car for an hour.
When you open the boot, who is really happy to see you?
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Four friends, who hadn’t seen each other in 30 years, reunited at a party
After several drinks, one of the men had to use the rest room.
Those who remained talked about their kids.
The first guy said, ‘My son is my pride and joy. He started working at a successful company at the bottom of the barrel.
He studied Economics and Business Administration and soon began to climb the corporate ladder and now he’s the president of the company. He became so rich that he gave his best friend a top of the line Mercedes for his birthday.’
The second guy said, ‘Darn, that’s terrific! My son is also my pride and joy. He started working for a big airline, then went to flight school to become a pilot. Eventually he became a partner in the company, where he owns the majority of its assets He’s so rich that he gave his best friend a brand new jet for his birthday.’
The third man said: ‘Well, that’s terrific! My son studied in the best universities and became an engineer. Then he started his own construction company and is now a multimillionaire. He also gave away something very nice and expensive to his best friend for his birthday: A 30,000 square foot mansion.’
The three friends congratulated each other just as the fourth returned from the restroom and asked: ‘What are all the congratulations for?’
One of the three said: ‘We were talking about the pride we feel for the successes of our sons. ..What about your son?’
The fourth man replied: ‘My son is gay and makes a living dancing as a stripper at a nightclub.’
The three friends said: ‘What a shame… what a disappointment.’
The fourth man replied: ‘No, I’m not ashamed. He’s my son and I love him.
And he hasn’t done too bad either. His birthday was two weeks ago, and he received a beautiful 30,000 square foot mansion, a brand new jet and a top of the line Mercedes from his three boyfriends.’
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I went to a seafood disco last week and pulled a mussel!
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The morning after day light saving I walked into the bathroom only to find my dyslexic partner covering his privates with black shoe polish. “YOU IDIOT” I exclaimed………….. ” I said turn the clocks back!”
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A wealthy man was having an affair with an Italian woman for a few years.
One night, during one of their rendezvous, she confided in him that she was pregnant.
Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to have the child. If she stayed in Italy,
he would also provide child support until the child turned 18.
She agreed, but wondered how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discrete, he told her to mail him a post card, and write “Spaghetti” on the back. He would then arrange for child support.
One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife.
“Honey,” she said, “you received a very strange post card today.”
“Oh, just give it to me and I’ll explain it later,” he said.
The wife obeyed, and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and fainted.
On the card was written “Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with meatballs, one without.”
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A ventriloquist is touring the clubs and stops to entertain in a small town. He’s going through his usual run of off-colour and ‘dumb blonde’ jokes, when a well-dressed blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and shouts:
“I’ve heard just about enough of your stupid blonde jokes, you jerk! What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What connection can a person’s hair colour possibly have with their fundamental worth as a human being?” It’s morons like you that prevent women like myself from being respected at work and in our communities and from reaching our full potential, because you and your Neanderthal brethren continue to perpetuate negative images against not only blondes, but women in general, for the sake of cheap laughs. You are a pathetic, misogynistic relic of the past, and what you do is not only contrary to discrimination laws in every civilized country, it is deeply offensive to people with modern sensibilities and basic respect for their fellow citizens. You should hang your head in shame, you pusillanimous little maggot.”
Flustered, the ventriloquist begins to apologize, when the blonde yells:
“You stay out of this mister! I’m talking to that little bastard on your knee.”
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Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a Police Officer sees a car puttering along at 22 KPH.
Says he to himself: “This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!”
So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over.
Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies, two in the front seat and three in the back… wide eyed and white as ghosts.
The driver, obviously confused, says to him “Officer, I don’t understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?”
“Ma’am,” the officer replies, “you weren’t speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers.”
“Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly… twenty-two kilometers an hour!” the old woman says a bit proudly.
The Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle explains to her that 22 is the highway number, not the speed limit.
A bit embarrassed, the woman grins and thanks the officer for pointing out her error.
“But before I let you go, Ma’am, I have to ask… is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken, and they haven’t made a peep this whole time,” the officer asks.
“Oh, they’ll be all right in a minute officer. We just got off Highway 189.”
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KNOCK, KNOCK,
WHO’S THERE,
BOO,
BOO WHO ?
NO NEED TO CRY ABOUT IT !!!!
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I went shopping with my grandad the other day and we stopped for a bite to eat. We were seated across from a young girl who had a mohawk with mutli-coloured spikes. Grandad couldn’t stop staring at her until she eventually came up to poor pop and said ‘what’s the matter old man? Never done anything wild in your life?’ Quick as a shot he hired back ‘I once got stoned and slept with a parrot, I was wondering if you were my daughter?’
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A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid
her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to
the bird’s chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, “I’m
sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away.”
The distressed woman wailed, “Are you sure?”
“Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead,” replied the vet.
“How can you be so sure?” she protested. “I mean you haven’t done any
testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something.”
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a
few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck’s owner
looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front
paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom.
He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few
minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and
also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on
its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the
room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, “I’m sorry, but as I said, this is
most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck.”
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a
bill, which he handed to the woman.
The duck’s owner, still in shock, took the bill. “$150!” she cried,
“$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!” The vet shrugged, “I’m sorry. If
you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but
with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it’s now $150.”
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Q. What’s the difference between a G-spot and a golf ball?
A. A guy will actually search for a golf ball
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A teacher asks her class to use the word “contagious” in a sentence.
Roland, the class suck-up, gets up straight away and says, “Last year
I got the flu, and my mum said it was very contagious.”
“Well done, Roland,” says the teacher “Can anyone else think of a
sentence?”
Katie, a sweet little girl with pigtails, stands up and says,”My
grandma says there’s a nasty bug going around and it’s contagious.”
“Well done, Katie,” says the teacher. “Anyone else?”
Little Irish Shaun jumps up and says proudly,”Our next door neighbour
is painting his house with a two inch brush, and my dad says it will
take the contagious.”
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The wife has been missing a week now. Police said to prepare for the worst. So I have been to the charity shop to get all her clothes back
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This woman rushed to see her doctor, looking very worried and all strung out. She rattles off: “Doctor, take a look at me. When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, my eyes were bloodshot and bugging out, and I had this corpse-like look on my face! What’s WRONG with me, Doctor!?”
The doctor looks her over for a couple of minutes, then calmly says: “Well, I can tell you that there’s nothing wrong with your eyesight….”
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A man is fishing when his wife falls overboard. He searches for her but it appears that she has drowned. He calls the marine police and their diving team, who also have no luck finding her. Overnight the search is called off and resumed at first light the next morning.
The marine police decide to dredge, and on the second run, they snag the woman’s body and drag it to the surface. The husband, who is at home is called -
“Sir, we have found your wife – she is one piece, but is a little messy, as she had 4 lobsters attached to her. What should we do with the body?”
“Well”, the husband replies, how about you take 2, I’ll take 2 and we’ll set her again tonight and pull her in the morning?
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This story happened a while ago in Dublin , and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it’s true.
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John Bradford, a Dublin University student, was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a big storm.
The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him.
Suddenly, he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped.
John , desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got into the car and closed the door…. Only to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn’t on. The car started moving slowly. John looked at the road ahead and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life. Then, just before the car hit the curve, a hand appeared out of nowhere through the window, and turned the wheel. John , paralyzed with terror, watched as the hand came through the window, but never touched or harmed him.
Shortly thereafter, John saw the lights of a pub appear down the road, so, gathering strength; he jumped out of the car and ran to it. Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and started telling everybody about the horrible experience he had just had.
A silence enveloped the pub when everybody realized he was crying… And wasn’t drunk.
Suddenly, the door opened, and two other people walked in from the dark and stormy night. They, like John , were also soaked and out of breath. Looking around, and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the other….
Look Paddy….there’s that fooking idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it!!!!
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A rabbit and a bear take a shit in the woods
The bears turns to the rabbit and says: “Do you have a problem with shit sticking to your fur?”
“No I don’t” says the rabbit
So the bear picks up the rabbit and wipes his bum
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Why don’t they serve Escargot at Macca’s? Because they only serve fast food!
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A blonde was walking down the street, carrying a brown paper bag. She ran into one of her friends.
Her friend asked, “Hey! What do you have in the bag?”
She tells her friend that she has some fish in the bag.
The friend says, “Fish! Well, I’ll make you a bet. If I can guess how many fish you have in the bag, you’ll have to give me one.”
The blonde says, “I’ll tell you what. If you tell me how many fish I have in this bag, I’ll give you both of them.”
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Why did the lobster blush???
Because the seaweed !!! :-p
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This month we asked the question, What is the best mothers day gift you have received, given or heard of. We got some cracking stories! Here they all are.
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The best mothers day gift i’ve had, was chicken & champagne breakfast in bed from my hubby & 2 kids. As I was sipping my champagne and got to the bottom of the glass, something fell into my mouth. It was a beautiful pair of diamond earrings.
My husband kept an eye on the earrings, so he explained later, making sure that i wasn’t going to swallow them.
Suzie
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Hi Everyone at Lobster Cave,
I would like to enter your Mothers Day Competition and tell you what my “Best Mothers Day Gift” to date has been:
When my son was in Grade 2 at Primary School his teacher helped the kids make a Voucher Booklet made up of rip-out pieces of paper listing duties the kids would do for their mums -
Make a cup of tea/coffee
Put out bins
Make the bed
Bring in the washing
Etc
At the time I didn’t use all of the vouchers up and recently when cleaning out the cupboards I found them. My son is now nearly 21 and still living at home, and it has recently been giving me much pleasure and amusement to now use all the unused vouchers up. I remind him each time when he complains that the vouchers do not have “use by dates” on them! LOL!
I hope you find my “best gift” as amusing as me and wish all the mothers at your restaurant a lovely day on Mothers Day full of happy moments to share with your loved ones for many years to come.
Enjoy!!
Kind regards,
Janine Dickinson
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After three hours shopping, my husband and three year old son returned home so excited about the gift they had bought me for Mothers Day. It was a broom, but not just an ordinary broom, it was static so great for picking up dog hair. Although this was many many years ago, I still laugh at that gift (and my initial reaction of wow, with a big smile), and it’s the one I have never forgot, so it really was perfect after all. Who would have thought!!!!!!!!!
Nikki Mackenzie.
Janelle
Best Mother’s Day gift:
Me!
RL
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Hi unable to connect re Mothers day competition. Please enter my name
Regards. Helen Cartwright
Seems you did indeed connect Helen!! Bill Ferg
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In 2008 I took my mum on a catamaran cruise out of Sorrento. She love it, but she loved the video i made of the event even more… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w59XW0ZC18 This Sunday I’m taking her out for dinner… to lobster cave of course!
Best Mother’s Day Gift…… It really is quite simple……. A sleep in!!!!!
Cheers,
Cathy Rixon
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The best mothers day gift I have heard about was received by my sister in law seven years ago with the birth of her daughter! What could be a better mothers day gift than that!
Regards, Jillian.
I flew with my husband and baby, Lucy to the UK to surprise my mum on Mother’s day. She had never met Lucy and I hadn’t seen mum for 4 years. The look of total surprise on Mums face when she opened her front door on Mother’s day morning was priceless. If ever I need to think of a happy moment in my life this is one of them.
Pippa
Amazing Pippa, you should have had a camera to hand! Bill Ferg
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Last year my normally very unromantic husband gave me 9 red roses on mother’s day, from our baby girl, 9 roses for the 9 months she grew inside me. It melted my heart. P.S. Our little girl was born 9 months to the day after our Valentine’s… day dinner at the Lobster Cave, and now every time we go to the Lobster Cave we are teased by our family and friends about when the next baby is coming…dangerous things those oysters 
Nicole
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According to my connections at sea 2011 will be a slow year for fresh calamari. “It’s just not there”. This will bring calamari from overseas which is not as compatible to the Aussie product.
Beware of the origin before you buy as the Australian product is far superior and would only cost you a few extra dollars.
Bill Ferg.
OK Folks, below are all the entries in the ‘best seafood dish to ever come off your BBQ’ competition.
We will be selecting 2 winners in the next few days who will each get a dinner for 2 at The Cave.
There is some serious BBQ gold here!! Enjoy.
Spicy Lime Barbecued Prawns on Coconut Rice. Serves 4
Ingredients for Spicy Prawns
32 raw king prawns, peeled and deveined
1 lime, zested and juiced
2 jalapeno chillies, with seeds, chopped
3 cloves garlic, crushed
3 cm piece fresh ginger, grated
1 medium onion, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Place the prawns and lime peel in a non-metallic bowl. Place the lime juice, chillies, garlic, ginger and onion in a food processor or blender, and process until smooth. (You may need to add a little olive oil to facilitate blending). Pour over the bowl of prawns and stir to coat. Cover and refrigerate for ½ hour. While prawns are marinating, prepare coconut rice.
Ingredients for Coconut Rice
2 cups basmati rice
2 tablespoon coconut oil
2 teaspoon butter
1/3 cup shredded coconut
2 cups coconut milk
2 cups chicken stock
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Rinse rice until the water runs clear, drain. Heat coconut oil and butter in a large frypan over medium-high heat. Stirring constantly, cook rice and coconut flakes for 3 to 4 minutes.
Stir in the coconut milk, chicken stock and salt. Bring to a low boil, then cover and reduce heat to low. Cook for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and keep covered for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork and season with pepper.
Return to marinating prawns.
Preheat barbecue for medium-high heat. Thread prawns onto skewers, piercing each first through the tail, and then the head. Brush cooking grate with oil. Cook prawns for 5 minutes, turning once, or until opaque. Serve on a bed of coconut rice, garnished with fresh coriander.
Bon Appétit!
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BBQ seafood surprise
4 pieces salmon (middle cut)
16 raw green prawns
12 scallops (optional) – if using mix with 2 chopped gloves garlic and 25g of butter
piece of ginger about the length of your thumb, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic chopped
2 pieces of spring onion , whole length, sliced diagonally
generous half cup chopped coriander
3 tablespoons light soy sauce
1 tsp of sesame oil
1 tsp caster sugar
4 tablespoons of olive oil
2 bok choy pulled apart and bottoms neatly trimmed.
Method.
In a small pot, heat the two oils & the caster suger just to dissolve then add the soya sauce. Set aside to cool
Take 5 large pieces of foil
Line each with a piece of baking paper
Divide bok choy between 4 pieces of baking paper and top with a piece of salmon
Place prawns on the other piece of paper.
Divide the garlic, ginger, spring onion and coriander between the 5 parcels.
Divide the sauce between the parcels and fold up like a parcel.
When bbq hot, place the salmon parcels Only) on grill and cook on medium for 20 mins or until done to your liking
After 12 minutes, add the prawn parcel. (depends on how you like your prawns)
Whlst that is cooking, If using scallops, either in the pan or on the grill plate of the bbq, saute the scallops
When cooked open parcels and place 4 prawns (and scallops) on each piece of salmon, basting with any juices.
Serve.
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Marinated fish kebabs with yoghurt sauce
MARINADE:
1T olive oil
1 crushed garlic clove
1 finely chopped red chile
1/2 tsp sugar
2T chopped fresh coriander
1tsp paprika
1/2 tsp ground cumin
2T lemon juice
YOGHURT SAUCE:
Chop 200g of peeled and seeded cucumber finely and sprinkle with salt. Rest for 1/2 hr, then rinse well under cold water. Add 1/2 cup plain yoghurt and 1 tsp chopped coriander.
METHOD:
Cut 500g of fresh meaty fish fillets (eg swordfish) into 1 inch cubes and thread onto oiled skewers. Marinate 4hrs and BBQ. Serve with yoghurt sauce. Accompany with rice and salad for a lovely and healthy dish.
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NO-FUSS TANDOORI BBQ PRAWNS
500 grms green prawns
250 grms Greek yoghurt
1/2 lime juiced
1 tespoon garam masala
1 teaspoon fresh coriander
1/2 teaspoon tumeric
1 teaspoon garlic, crushed
2 tespoons tomato sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
METHOD:
Mix all ingrediants together
Marinade prawns in mix for 1 hour
Drain prawns from marinade and bbq
To serve, garnish with a few coriander leaves
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Tender Salmon fillet
1. Lemon parsley butter on one side of a skinned salmon fillet, pesto and crushed toasted pinenuts on the other
2. Place in tin foil parcel and straight onto BBQ till tender.
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Fillet of white flesh fish (Flake, Barramundi etc)
1 x small fresh chilli finely chopped
Grated or chopped fresh ginger x ˝ t/s
Finely chopped garlic clove ź x t/s
Chopped spring onion
Fish sauce ˝ to 1 t/s
Light soy sauce x 1 t/s
Fresh lime juice x 1 tb/s
Brown sugar x ź t/s
Salt & cracked pepper to taste
Take a piece of foil and lightly spray with oil.
Place fish on foil and cover evenly with the above ingredients only add small amount if chilli according to heat tolerance.
Wrap foil into a parcel and place on the BBQ.
Close lid and cook for about 20 minutes
Seriously yummo
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seared kingfish. With a sticky citrus and chilli salsa.
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Prawns on skewers generously brushed with Olive oil, garlic, lemon juice and a dash of cayenne pepper & salt. Can’t beat it!
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My BBQ lobster is the best..
2 Lobster Tails, cut them in half,(long ways)
Marinade:
Place Butter, paprika & chilli in saucepan cook until a little burnt then baste on lobster over BBQ until cooked…. Mmmmm you’ll love it..:)
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The best n tastiest seafood I’ve ever had on the bbq, was freshly caught albacore from the NSW Coast. We were camping so we only had limited items to use for cooking our fresh fish. We sliced 2 huge fillets (20 x 10 cm) off the albacore and made parcels in foil with lemon, olive oil, lemon pepper, tomatoes, onions & garlic and put them on the bbq to cook. After 20 or so minutes we took them off n served them in a plate with a salad n potatoes. Once we opened the parcel we smelled delicious flavours n steam was coming out. We got to taste succulent and juicy fish that melted in our mouths with loads of juices to dip the fish into from cooking the fish in foil. I’ve had loads fish ever since but nothing compares to freshly caught fish cooked in foil on the bbq. The taste is amazing!
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My bbq seafood melody. Marinade raw prawns, salmon cut into cubes and scallops in chilli, ginger, garlic, honey, corriander and a dash of ketchup manis. Place seafood on scewers and bbq till caramelization occurs. Serve with a refreshing dip made with greek yoghurt, chopped cucumber and lemon juice. Buon apetito
