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My first out-of-town guest in Cairns, AND he’s a Canadian! Nnnnice.
One of the benefits of moving to a smaller, touristy town is that (hopefully) some of your friends will go to the trouble of coming to visit you. It’s an easy sell: “Need an excuse to get out of your town and get a change of scenery? Come visit me!”
Although we’d only spoken by phone before, my phone friend Dean came recommended through another Canuck friend of mine. Looking to get out of the Brisbane scene for a weekend, Dean made his way up to Cairns, hoping for some warmer weather and a good time.
I thought this would be another a good opportunity to make a dining experience of the night and find a restaurant serving "mod oz" cuisine (i.e. modern Australian). Dean, thankfully, went along with my suggestion and we headed to the Red Ochre Grill for some creative, local dining.
Dean went for down Kangaroo Road, selecting the kangaroo sirloin treated with a quandong chilli glaze. “Quandong”, dessert peach, is truly also very Australian.
I, having already experience kanagaroo a couple of times before, went with with the emu dish (having eyed it down at someone else’s table). Again, as the saying goes, it “tasted like beef”, although perhaps a little bit more gamey than cow. A truly remarkable dish however, whose recipe I’m not going to even try to guesstimate.
For apps, we ordered a side of spicy fries. T-a-s-t-y! After working on our Quebec-born waiter all throughout the entire meal, I finally convinced him to make an inquiry with the chef for the spice blend contents. (recipe below – feel free to play with the portions, depending on your own tastes)
Stuffed to the gills, we strolled down to the Esplanade and boardwalk so Dean could take in some of the tourist sights after-hours.
Recipe - they used three spices : cumin, paprika and dried jalapeños powder. Go easy with the paprika and jalepenos, making cumin the main ingredient.
2 comments:
Nice! Where you get this guestbook? I want the same script.. Awesome content. thankyou.
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while i was in adelaide i tried red ochre's quandong & dark chocolate spring roll for dessert. crunchy spring roll style pastry encasing poached quandongs and oozing bitter chocolate. divine!
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