Australia

Just one of Bill Granger’s savory recipes, I know I will make many more to come.

A hearty vegetarian salad with fresh ingredients and a variety of textures and flavors.

Aussie burgers with the Lot — Veggie style!

For the Australian Grand Prix this year we made Grilled Shrimp and Corn Rolls with Smashed Avocado spread. They were delicious! Served with a bright little salad and a few bottles of Cooper’s Beer, it was a lovely start to the new season. I couldn’t resist find a recipe for grilled shrimp, just so I could say we were having shrimp on the barbie!

Tart, punchy, just enough sweet and a great complement to an F1 Grand Prix.

For the Australian Grand Prix I pulled a few recipes from a 1990's-era nouveau cuisine cookbook: A Taste of Australia. We made Chilli Salt Squid Salad and a Tandoori Marinated fish. Cooking with squid is relatively new to me, and this was only my second time making calamari. It turns out to be super easy (given that the squid is cleaned ahead of time for you)! The spice blend on the calamari and the kick of chili in the dressing for the salad were surprising flavors and really quite good. With my penchant for vegetable and simpler meals, I think the salad would have been a good meal in itself. 

These biscuits or cookies, whatever you want to call them, are super quick to make and a perfect finish to an Aussie themed meal.

The first race of the new season is always exciting. Fanfare and speculation abound. It is so great to see the Sky F1 crew back together and hear Crofty and Martin's voices over the sounds of screaming F1 cars. This year, out of tradition, and gluttony we stayed the course and made our all time favorite burger too big for your mouth: the Aussie Burger 'with the lot'.

The Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne holds a special place in most F1 fan's hearts as it is the spring to our long cold winter. The first race of the new F1 season! Not only do we get to look forward to seeing all the new liveries, and meet the new drivers... but we also get to have some Australian deliciousness, in the form of BURGERS.