One of the world's great sharing meals, Paella. Plop the pan in the middle of the table and have at it.

Ingredients

200g Saffron Rice 1 tspn Garlic, crushed Handful Chorizo, sliced 3 Prawns 5 Scallops 3 Mussels Handful Spanish Onion Handful Tomato, Diced ½ Soft Shell Crab, beer battered, cooked White Wine to Deglaze Parsley

Method

1. Get pan hot, throw in garlic and chorizo and begin to caramelize 2. Once caramelized, deglaze with wine, throw in prawns, scallops, onion 3. Once cooked throw in rice and heat through 4. Plate up, Garnish w/ diced tomato, beer battered soft shell crab and parsley.

Don't let the prawn on the barbie cliche spook you. This is as contempo as you care, but why would you? Just enjoy.

Ingredients

24 large raw king prawns, peeled and deveined, tails left intact 185ml Asian marinade (see below) Green salad, to serve Asian Marinade: 70ml grapeseed oil 1 tb sesame oil 1 cm piece ginger, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, crushed 1 tb oyster sauce 2 tb kecap manis 1 tb fish sauce Red chilli, finely chopped, to taste (optional) Makes 1 cup.

Method

Asian Marinade: Put the grapeseed and sesame oils, ginger, garlic, oyster sauce, kecap manis, fish sauce and chilli into a bowl. Stir to combine and use as required. Asian marinade can be stored, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. Prawns: Place the prawns in the Asian marinade for 1 minute before cooking, then chargrill on a preheated barbeque

Curtis have been making wine in McLaren Vale since 1973. The family history in winemaking stretches back to Italy, where in 1499 Paolo Curtis was charged by the Cardinal de Medici with looking after the papal lands around Cervaro, including the establishment of vineyards and olive groves. The family still farms in the area today. Part of the family moved to Australia and began making wine in McLaren Vale in the 1970’s. They draw on some serious old vine resources, with Shiraz plantings 60 years of age and Grenache vines a century old in the mix and forming the backbone of the wines we stock from them. We’re definitely overdue a feature on Curtis Family Vineyards as we’ve been stocking their wines for the last 5 years and have been seeing quality improve year on year. We started with

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