Posts tagged “trout

for the love of trout

Posted on October 11th, 2011

One of my favourite pasta asciutta is arrabiata. It’s simple and full of flavour, but best of all, most of the ingredients can come strait from my veg patch. Inspired by Pellegrini’s Unprejudiced Palate, I decided to merge a version of this traditional favourite with trout. The result is possibly one of the most enjoyable ways I’ve experienced eating trout. Totally blew me away. The ingredients are simple. Our home cured prosciutto, home pickled olives, home made olive oil, home grown parsley, garlic, passata. The only thing not ours was the Tuki Trout, butter, mushies, white wine and onion. Every morsel was cherished with plenty of ooo’s and arrrhh’s. The trout skin that is often set aside on the plate by most people does…

smoked trout pappardelle

Posted on June 20th, 2011

I have a freezer full of trout, and every so often as a treat I pull a few out and smoke them. These few are actually not gained by one of my fishing days but I sourced them from Mark a fellow grow your own guy in Wyndham Vale. Each season he changes his fish species to suite the temperature of the season, and last year when it started getting warmer he harvested all his trout from his aqaponics set up and replaced them with warm weather species, I was the lucky guy that scored a bunch of fish for my larder. Smoking fish is so easy I don’t know why more people don’t do it. Sure baking and frying have their place, but…