fish

...so, been doin' some pretty wicked cooking lately...
every time we go to the islands, we eat the best fresh fish bbq'd or steamed or fried.
last weekend, went to the supermarket, and found out that when you buy fish here, they'll gut it and scale it for u! i don't gut fish, 'cos it's kinda gross, but if they're gonna do it for you, well, hey, i'm happy with that. Fish is also really cheap, we paid about $2 for a big fresh sea bream...
so, here is the swamp's baked chilli and ginger fish recipe:

ingredients:
one big ass fresh fish gutted and scaled - i like sea bream
2 hot red chillis
4 garlic cloves, chopped
a bit of fresh ginger, chopped
one quarter of a stick o' fresh lemongrass
juice from 2 small limes
2 tablespoons of sunflower oil
salt

method:
1. dump the chilli, garlic, ginger and lemongrass in the blender. blend it. put paste into a bowl and stir in oil and lemon juice. add salt if u like it.
2. wash the fish. slice three gashes down each side. then put a bit of the blended mixture inside the fish where the guts were, smear the rest over each side. jam the paste deep down into the gashes u've cut so the flavour gets in. whack it in the fridge for a coupla' hours
3. preheat the oven to about 180C. whack the fish into a baking tray on some foil, chuck it in the oven. give it 10 minutes on one side, then turn it over, smear on the remaining chilli paste, and leave it for almost half and hour.
the top will get all crispy with the garlic and stuff, and the bottom side tastes even better 'cos the juices have seeped down!


This is what it looks like before u cook it

damn that's good stuff!