How do you like the new lounge room in our house reno, it’ll DOO-for-us? Pretty amazing view. No, we did not come up with the name of our house, we didn’t even realise our house was in Doo town until we got our land tax bill, DOOFORUS is actually on the address, cracked us up! Such a  peaceful place to live and a hotspot for tourists visiting  the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania, with its close location to the Port Arthur Historic Site. I can actually remember visiting Doo Town when I was a kid and giggling about at all the house names.

According to wikipedia Doo Town started in in 1935 when one shack owner put Doo/99 on his house name plate and then neighbours put name plates on their own shacks, Doo Me and Doo us, then the trend caught on and most houses now have a plate with the house name that starts with Doo. My husband and I had very different opinions on what Doo-Towns most eligible bachelor’s house name plate implied? I was thinking not working to hard?!

At the Blow Hole carpark at the end of Doo Town you will find what has been called some of Australia’s best fish and chips. Phil and Bev have been running the Doo-lishus food van as long as I have been living on the peninsula so over 11 years, it started with Ice cream and drinks but with Phil’s experience as a fisherman, I’m guessing it naturally moved into fish and chips too. It is always local well cooked fish and my kids love it, it would have to be some of the best views in Tasmania for lunch too!The VIP lounge

perfect rainbow over Doo-town Pirates bay

Seafood Everyday book launch 26th November 5.30 to 7pm
The Founders Room- Salamanca Arts centre (entry of woobys lane) everyone welcome to come along and have a glass of bubbles to celebrate the launch of the book- Please let me know if you are coming so I make sure I have enough wine! info@eloiseemmett.com
if you want to pre order a book to collect at the launch you can do so here

Seafood everyday launch dinner from 7.30pm
The Founders Room- Salamanca Arts centre (entry of woobys lane)
buy your ticket here

Seated at  long tables we will serve shared platters of recipes from the book including some of my most popular recipes (as long as available fresh!)

fresh baked bread and local olive oil
Ellie’s famous creamy seafood chowder

oysters natural, topped with tomato tabasco and vodka and topped with smoked salmon and creme fraiche.
pickled octopus with a greek style salad
caper tart with red onion jam and salmon
smoked salmon and pinkeye potato salad
mussels with home made fettuchini proscuittio and capers
Macadamia crusted fresh fish
seafood lasagna
and others depending on what is best and freshest at the time!

followed by a selection of deserts and cheeses platters

$80 per person INCLUDES A COPY OF THE BOOK

Bangor Vineyard will be providing a bar service offering their delicious award winning wines, craft beer, cider and ginger beer to purchase during the dinner.

I will be at the Founders room from the Friday the 25th to the 27th 10 am to 3pm with a display of framed prints and stretched and framed canvases that will look gorgeous in your home, I will post some more information on the images closer to the day. I will also have books- Seafood Everyday & The Real Food for kids cookbooks, a calendar for 2017, and gift cards for available- so if you can’t make the launch come in and say Hi on another day. If you want to pre order a book to collect from me at The founders you you can order it here