Richard caught squid. Richard cooked squid. We ate squid!
Squid in a Bag
Squid in a Pan
Squid on a Plate
Not pictured: The squid tube after it was all cleaned out, which looked suspiciously like the squeezy mayonnaise bottle that we just bought and used to make the dipping sauce.
The soup was amazing even though I wouldn’t let him put much in it (“NO POTATOES! NO SOUR CREAM! NO TOUCHING!“). He was going to throw away the seeds at first, too, but ended up making a healthful and delicious snack out of them in the oven with a bit of olive oil, salt and cayenne pepper.
10/10; would eat again (if he prepares all the pumpkins like today!) bigsmile
Dating an angler means occasionally I have to put up with his totally zonked out state from having been out fishing all previous night and/or early morning and then crashing super early, but sometimes it also means fresh fish for dinner, like tonight!
Fresh Caught Tailor: The Filleting
Fresh Caught Tailor: The Fillets
Fresh Caught Tailor: The Frying
Fresh Caught Tailor: The Fried
Fresh Caught Tailor: The dish! (I put chilli / sauce / flakes / powder / oil on everything; I don’t even care if it’s a culinary sin.tongue )
The highlight of the dish was actually the pumpkin, roasted to perfection. I joked that the veggies were so good, the lamb skewers felt like the side to me.
Another gorgeous day spent with Richard and his 3 other friends for some picnic and light swimming at Jibbon Beach, and then fishing from the boat at Gannons Bay and Hacking River!
Jibbon Beach
They got more steel walkway work done outside the Dharawal Aboriginal Engravings Site.
Jibbon Beach
Went yabby pumping; the sand was super sinky!
Walking on this sand was quite a workout.
Yabbies for bait
I caught my first fish ever! And second! And third!
Fish I caught: Tailor fish (left), Baby snapper (centre), Trevally (right)
Two we could keep and one devoured on the same night!
Dinner is fresh self-caught trevally!
I really can’t thank Richard enough for everything. Next time: more fish, and even more sunscreen!