Category Archives: Food

Morning ritual. A great coffee and brekkie surprise; today we had ricotta pancakes!

Sun was up! So How Crew didn’t even bother with the boats today. All rods in and the guys pulled up a couple of legal sized brim and another flatty!

Brimmy.

Zi’s amazing tempura using freshly caught flathead, brim and squid with Sapporo beer batter!

Then for our last dinner Colin and Mei served up Hiyashi chūka, a Japanese dish of chilled ramen noodles with various toppings, so healthy, so good!

Day 4 and the sun finally came out to play! Sausage and eggs muffins for brekkie!

“big boat”! Boat No.2 at the ready!

Before heading out fishing for the day Colin stuffed ribs in the smoker for tonight’s dinner!

Willy on the water.

Zi puling up a small squid.

For lunch we had nem nuong, bit of a tradition on our Easter trips, except this time Colin and Mei actually made the nem nuong themselves!

Julia and monster squid! Fishing after lunch until dark saw Zi pull up this decent sized squidy!

We’ve caught enough for salt and pepper squid, which will be lunch for tomorrow!

And tonight, we feast on smoked pork and beef ribs!!! My goodness we’re eating well!!!

So last night’s never ending jug of sangria saw a fair few of us get pretty pissed. Lots of lols were had. This morning I woke up to the sound of coffee being made, and then as expected, an amazing Colin and Mei breakfast, this time baked Spanish eggs!

And grilled halloumi!

Julia showing her awesome instincts putting baby Alyssa to sleep.

Straight after brekkie Colin was prepping this coffee rubbed pork butt!

And yeah, outdoing himself once again, this time he brought his own smoker!!!

It’s raining harder than yesterday today, so, laptops out!

Steve’s still rockin’ his Nanami Cowdroy Nuvango skin.

For lunch Colin and Mei made takoyaki with the squid Stevey and Zi caught.

And pancakes too!

Then Zi, who was the only guy who was super committed to fishing for hours in the rain caught, caught this 80cm monster flatty off the jetty! Posing with Mei.

Family photo lol! Done! He’s now got a great fishing story to tell, forever!

Despite the neighbours on both sides urging us to keep the monster female Zi decided to let her go. A billion kharma points his way!

So no flathead for dinner, but Colin’s smoked pork butt came out of the smoker after a huge 9hr stint, and amazing pork butt, slaw, crackling and BBQ sauce burgers were smashed, followed by the late arrival of Willie, who’s been unable to make it the past few nights due to food poisoning! He brought along boat number 2 and bottles of cognac!

Weather is looking up for day 4! Now that Willie and his huge tackle box has arrived… it’s game on!!!

Colin brought his entire coffee set-up from home, our private barista!

Colin and Mei at it again. Corn Fritters for breakfast! Next level!

Stevey taking photos of Alyssa.

Stevey having a go at Alyssa in front of Mum Gloria and Julia.

Boys setting up the boat.

Then the skies opened up, but it didn’t stop us. In the water she goes.

I stayed in the boot of Steve’s Tarago to take these shots!

First catch! Zi with a little squidy!

Colin’s pastrami has evolved since last time. It’s now fucking epic!!!

Reuben Sandwiches for lunch!

Best Reuben I’ve ever had in my life! I’m directing all my positive manifestation powers towards these guys to open their own cafe!

For dinner, Beef Rendang!

Traditional Indonesian yellow rice which always takes me back to my childhood.

Pickled veggies.

And Sangria!

The sun never came up on day 2. It’s been grey all day, and after an amazing breakfast (Mei and Colin made corn fritters!) it started raining. That didn’t stop the boys from fishing though. The aim was to catch squid for Jewfish bait. We all used squid jigs. An hour in we hadn’t caught a thing but then Zi pulled one up and it was game on. Zi ended up catching 3, Steve one, all on the one pink jig.

Back at the house Colin and Mei served up the best Reuben Sandwich I’ve ever! Damn these guys are so ready to open their own cafe. After lunch it really pissed down, which was cool as we all had food coma. Netflix, grandpa naps and more food in the form of dinner; an Indonesian feast of Beef Rendang, yellow rice and pickles accompanied by an evil jar of white win sangria!