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Posts tagged ‘I never knew a surfer who could cook’

shit on a stick and bubble and squeak with chilli. a recipe.

Surfing never sucks

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seafood in a mess, over pasta

All done, let's eat, pass the olives, pass the capers, pass the bread.

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foodisthebestshitever

There's people out here who want to eat.

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surfing food and women – the bawley pizza

The hidden right that rears up around the headland down there and travels 300 yards to its brutal end against the cliffs. More unforgiving slabs.

But first, dinner.

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california omelete. a road recipe.

food and surfing - then everything else

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crowdy head: lobster omelet with mace and red peppercorns

Fresh Lobster omelet, mace, red peppercorns and garlic chives at Crowdy Head, August 1958, 5.40 pm.

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the left just up from winda woppa, a recipe, a breakfast. trawlermen.

Then they all disappeared over the dunes for every hour of sunlight that the sky allowed them. Away to the distance, that curved sweep of trackless beach.

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feral cats, three-rubber spearguns and bush omelets. a recipe.

Heard this low growl about 2 am and looked out of the tent, saw a bloody feral cat sitting by the fire - big bastard.

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flame grilled chicken dipped in honey chili and rolled in potato chip crumbs

Leave town and travel the darkening highway until you reach the coast. South is best. Park amongst the mosquitoes and casuarinas .. a recipe

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the bawley mixture: grilled sourdough with garlic, chilli, anchovy and tomato

Why being a surfer and a cook helps with the ladies

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Lobster Omelet with Mace & Red Peppercorns

A big man, tanned and snowy haired, he has spent four days in solitary sport amongst the massive south swell that has swept up the coast

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surfers who work: what to eat?

A famished bricklayer, who has little objection to the taste of his own bitten down and encrusted fingernails, will hurl an untasted fresh baked steak and onion pie to the ground in a fury at having to consider eating the unordered onions. A cautionary tale about life in a building site.

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pan-fried crumbed snapper with anchovies.

- and there .. ! The distant white trail of a surfer gliding down the black face of the fourth wave. The biggest of the set.

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fast food – the mexican egg and chip roll

We were sitting around the table in the Rose Bay Hotel with Scoresby and a couple of hard faced Maoris watching the races and waiting on a feed of Singapore noodles, a specialty of Mr. Ngyuen, Charles.
Nice chap Charles, seasons his chips with garlic and chopped chives

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fast food – latkes

He’s using the grill of a Chrysler 300/300c as a grill top, which makes sense, and for his pans he’s got a couple of full moon hubcaps, nicely chromed.

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dinner on the manning: whiting with honey and chili dust

Frank introduced us to the River the day after we took him home from the Harrington pub, the day he had been beaten insensible by the three dark men who had travelled up from Sydney looking for the local plantation. Three bikers.

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kevin (the head) brennan does breakfast

He was a troublesome jockey sized kid with an Irish pugnacity, an improper regard to discipline, a feral cunning and a consummate and admirable deftness in the surf. His agility, and ability to control the heavy boards of the time seemed effortless.

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