Cracking the Code – Your Guide to Cooking Prawns

Hubba Bubba One of my favourite food quotes from the movies is not inspirational in the sense it’ll make you want to better your life this minute. Okay, actually, it does exactly that; it makes you want to get up and go do something—it’s so full of ideas packed into all of sixty two words. Here it is: “Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan…

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Chicken Stuffed Squid with Garlic, Red Pepper and Onion

Last weeks post got a friend all fired up and he just “had” to have stuffed squid. He’d never had it before and wanted to see how it was made, so we got together Saturday evening last to whip it up.  Ideally I’d use a spicy Italian sausage or a chorizo or even a Goan sausage for the stuffing but my wife doesn’t eat red meat so we got some chicken sausage and had to up the flavour quotient of the stuffing. Since it was planned, I had carried the frozen…

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The Top 10 International Seafood Dishes That You Should Cook

Now that you know the name origins of your fav varieties of seafood, it’s time to get your hands dirty and cook up these stunners of the culinary world—the international marine marvels that make the heart of every global gastronome beat harder. These should be on your list of foods-you–eat-to-make-life-worth-living (you have a list like this, right?). Because you may need to be lucky to find places around that serves fairly true-to-form versions, you should aim to take matters into your own hands and go out into the world your…

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Seafood Myth Busters

Top four seafood myths and their offshoots.  In this blog post, we’ll take a close look at some of the false concepts floating around (pun intended) about seafood. We’ll see whether these notions are purely fictitious or if they have an element of truth in them. Myth 1 – DAIRY Much A Moo About Nothing   In our culture, the most common myth that’s persisted for far too long is that seafood and dairy can’t be consumed together. There has been no scientific evidence or study that proves this theory…

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Cracking the Code – Your Guide to Cooking Crab

Ancient Wise Saying  There are all kinds of crabs found around the world. The crab that walks miles too far will fall into the pot – Haitian proverb And be made into curries, savoury cakes, melts, dips, soups and more that all the people in the world can’t get enough of. This, inspite of there being 6,793 species of crab that can be found in all of the world’s oceans, in fresh water and on land. The number includes the tiniest species that is a few millimetres wide, and is appropriately…

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