This beauty called blue warhou or snotty trevally was still swimming around in the ocean a few hours ago. We are so lucky in Tasmania to be surrounded by such amazing produce, ‘fresh fish’ from some mainland city fish shops is at least 6 days old.

I cooked it and served it with a warm zucchini salad, with zucchini, tomatoes, dill, mint and garlic from my garden, and the snowpeas were given to me.

4 200 gram pieces fish
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and pepper
1 teaspoon oil

Salad
2 large zucchinis
1 cup snow peas
4 large tomatoes
100 grams fetta
1 large clove garlic
2 tablespoons fresh dill
1 tablespoon fresh mint
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil

To make the salad: slice the zucchini in 3 ml width slices lengthways. Roll the zucchini  in a little of the olive oil, and grill on a griddle plate or pan fry. Chop the tomato, and fetta into about a 1 cm dice, crush the garlic, slice the mint and the dill and toss altogether with the olive oil, lemon juice and the warm zucchini, season with a little salt and pepper.

To cook the fish: season the flour with a little salt and pepper and coat each piece of fish in the flour. Heat the oil in a heavy based pan and fry the fish, first skin side up for 2 minutes and finish cooking skin side down, to get a crispy skin, for a further 4 minutes or until cooked.

Beautiful cherries, direct from the farm in safety cove road Port Arthur, $6/kilo for seconds what a bargain!

I made a cherry chutney to serve with, pepperberry wallaby fillets on a warm salad of thyme roasted beetroot, silverbeet and fetta.

This recipe serves four
4 wallaby fillets
1 tablespoon pepper berries
1 tablespoon peppercorns
1 teaspoon oil

 2 large beetroot
5 sprigs thyme
1 tablespoon oil
1 cup silver-beet or spinach leaves
120 grams fetta

 Cherry chutney
1 small red onion
200 grams cherries
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons brown sugar

To make the chutney, halve and take the pips out of the cherries. Dice the onions and put in a small pot with the cherries, vinegar and sugar and cook over a low heat for about ½ hour until cherries are cooked and soft.

 Peel and dice the beetroot, and chop the thyme and bake in a moderate (180 degree) oven for about 30 minutes, when the tray is still hot toss through the spinach and fetta.

To cook the wallaby, crush the peppercorns and pepper berries and mix together then roll the wallaby fillets in them to coat them.

 Brush the fillets with oil and cook in a hot pan or hot grill on the BBQ, turning regularly for about 8 minutes for medium rare. Wrap the meat in foil and let it rest for about 10 minutes.

 Serve the wallaby thinly sliced with the salad and the chutney.