Hello,
How nice is spring?
I have a random abundance of self-seeded coriander and plenty of bok choy and other greens in my garden, so I have been enjoying the fish laksa from Seafood Everyday, for a quick and delicious weeknight meal. I substituted lemongrass with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice as I have heaps from my tree in Taranna and my mums tree. People seemed quite excited about the laksa when I posted it on facebook so here is the recipe, it is from the “Economical Fish Meal”chapter of Seafood Everyday. Once the paste is made, and the paste will make 5 or 6 family meals it is a 10 minute meal, or 9 minutes and 22 seconds. Yes I actually timed it last week as I always say about 10 minutes and I overheard some workshop guests recently say how they hate it when a recipe claims to be quick but actually takes hours. I have made this laksa in the past with all types of fish and seafood, prawns, mussels, chicken or even a veg version. Enjoy, and let me know how you go when you make it. It is very handy to have the paste in the freezer & stock in the freezer for quick meals.
also in my garden is a gorgeous peony bush, really no good reason to share that but show you how pretty it is!
I think the laksa will be on the menu at upcoming workshops. I have more workshops listed on my website including a twilight seafood Cooking Friday 20th October. After a private group booked an afternoon session I thought this might work out well for some other people?? Sounds like a fun way to end the working week.
The workshops are about teaching people to cook more in the home kitchen. I like to add in some basics so guests go home with ideas for everyday cooking but it does end up as quite the spectacular lunch feast, lots of photos of recent workshops on the latest news page of my website. I know a few people tend to save foods like scallops and quail for the occasional restaurant meal. They may feel they are too hard to cook but when you think you could be dining on a meal of quail, scallops or even crayfish at home for the same price you might spend on “cheap” (cheap in nutrition not cost -although we have been brainwashed to think they are cheap) takeaways, it makes sense to learn to cook. As I always say, I like to know where my money is going, I would much prefer to be supporting a local food system, the local fisher or farmer than making some rich corporate American even richer.
Upcoming workshops with spots available:
Thursday 28th Tasmanian Cooking Experience
Thursday 12th October Bread Baking
Friday 20th October Twilight Seafood Cooking starts at 5.30 PM
Thursday 9th November Seafood Cooking
Thursday 23rd November Tasmanian Cooking Experience
Guests stay on to enjoy a long lunch of around 10 recipes from my cookbooks we cook and guests take home a cookbook as a gift.
to book go to my website www.eloiseemmett.com
I will be trialling some new classes in Term 4 and the October school holidays. Master Class style basic cooking classes. These classes are shorter than the workshops. One and a half hour and include a taste of the dish we cook $59 per person 6-7.30 PM
25th October Stock Making and we will make scallops in noodle broth
10th November Salad Dressing and we will make quail with a honey and mustard dressed apple salad
24th November Pasta Making and we will make lasagne
School Holiday workshops for junior chefs
Wednesday 4th October and we will make Pizza and dessert pizza 11am-12.30pm
Wednesday 11th October pasta and we will make lasagne 11am-12.30pm
$59 per person
Not as happy news, another depressing study about Australian eating habits popped up in my news feed today. This is not new and I honestly don’t know why anyone would choose to eat so much shit food when we now know the mental and physical illness including bloody cancer caused by shit food. It is not too hard, time consuming or expensive to cook good food at home once you are organised.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/csiro-healthy-diet-score-report/102841124
Thanks hope to see you in my kitchen soon, make sure you let your friends know about the workshops and classes I’m sure they will love them,
Eloise
www.littlenorfolkbayeventsandchalets.com
www.teralinabeachhouse.com
Eloise Emmett 