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Being on the top of the totem pole in the culinary arts, I thought I would make up a great seafood Valentines Day din dins for my missus tonight. And why not, Australia has the best seafood in the world, simply a matter of popping down to the old seafood markets/shops/supermarkets and loading up with the fresh, delicious little devils I was after.
The menu comprised:
Oysters
Sea Scallops
Sandcrab
Prawns
Nice chunk reef fish
Hey, too easy!
OK, Woolies and Coles: Nah, sorry Mate, we don't stock that but tell ya what. Psssst! Got some great imported prawns, some great frozen Aussie prawns, some Pacific Oysters and some Jappy scallops.
Never mind, no luck there so down to Raby Bay Seafood Market. Egads! It has closed down altogether!! Guy tells me he went kaput selling quality fresh seafods, could never get the good stuff!
Slightly chuffed (p***ed orf!) I goes down to me local fish and chip man who says, "Sorry Mate, don't sell that sort of stuff but ............... yeh, same speil as the supermarkets!"
Hmmmmmm, not looking too flash now, so prowls the other four seafood (?) stores in and abouts Cleveland all of whom offered frozen scallops, frozen crab meat, pacific oysters, frozen prawns, imported prawns, defrosted prawns, pale pink looking little mongrel prawns from the Phillipines. Did get a nice chunk of snapper (I hope!)
In a semi state of panic now, I finally struck paydirt at another popular fish and chip shop and wow, was it great!
I finished up with imported and frozen Jappy scallops (real brown looking critters), disgusting frozen, watery and grey looking cr*p in a plastic bag that was supposadly sand crab (made soup out of it), and twelve really great Tassy oysters. There was a dish full of Aussie Scallops that looked like clones of each other and I am betting we are looking at the old stingray flaps here...!
So there you go, great fresh aussie seafoods really do abound everywhere!
End of an era I reckon!
If I had had the time and a brain I would have driven to Aussie Seafoods at Capalaba who are the only ones I know of on the Bayside where some decent stuff can be bought.
Bumma!
The menu comprised:
Oysters
Sea Scallops
Sandcrab
Prawns
Nice chunk reef fish
Hey, too easy!
OK, Woolies and Coles: Nah, sorry Mate, we don't stock that but tell ya what. Psssst! Got some great imported prawns, some great frozen Aussie prawns, some Pacific Oysters and some Jappy scallops.
Never mind, no luck there so down to Raby Bay Seafood Market. Egads! It has closed down altogether!! Guy tells me he went kaput selling quality fresh seafods, could never get the good stuff!
Slightly chuffed (p***ed orf!) I goes down to me local fish and chip man who says, "Sorry Mate, don't sell that sort of stuff but ............... yeh, same speil as the supermarkets!"
Hmmmmmm, not looking too flash now, so prowls the other four seafood (?) stores in and abouts Cleveland all of whom offered frozen scallops, frozen crab meat, pacific oysters, frozen prawns, imported prawns, defrosted prawns, pale pink looking little mongrel prawns from the Phillipines. Did get a nice chunk of snapper (I hope!)
In a semi state of panic now, I finally struck paydirt at another popular fish and chip shop and wow, was it great!
I finished up with imported and frozen Jappy scallops (real brown looking critters), disgusting frozen, watery and grey looking cr*p in a plastic bag that was supposadly sand crab (made soup out of it), and twelve really great Tassy oysters. There was a dish full of Aussie Scallops that looked like clones of each other and I am betting we are looking at the old stingray flaps here...!
So there you go, great fresh aussie seafoods really do abound everywhere!
End of an era I reckon!
If I had had the time and a brain I would have driven to Aussie Seafoods at Capalaba who are the only ones I know of on the Bayside where some decent stuff can be bought.
Bumma!
so I guess its frozen pizzas again tonight. Very romantic
(ie...local seafood 
)
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