Dishing up Australia with Al Brown, Episode 4 - Queensland

27 June, 2013

Dishing up Australia with Al Brown, Episode 4 – Queensland: Brisbane & Noosa

TV ONE Saturday, June 29, 2013

In episode four of Al Brown’s culinary journey of Australia, the kiwi chef sets out to dispel his long-held belief that Queensland is all about Prawns and Pineapples.

What Al does discover is it’s all that and so much more as he samples his way around the sunshine capital of Australia.

Al begins his Queensland journey at the Powerhouse markets, or what the locals call the “best markets in the world”. He makes his way from aisle to aisle sampling fresh produce, before stumbling across some of the best haloumi he’s ever tasted.

It wouldn’t be a trip to Queensland without sampling the local Moreton Bay Bugs, which used to be turfed back to sea by fisherman, but are now a delicacy of the region.

A local fisherman lends Al his galley as he fries up a succulent prawn feast, for what becomes undoubtedly one of his “best experiences I’ve ever had.”

From here Al heads into the Glass House Mountains of Sunshine Coast’s hinterland, to discover that the pineapples grown here are as golden as the Queensland sun, and that they don’t grow on trees. A small shrub offers up the fruit of the gods as Al gets to “knock the top off one straight from the source.

Al tracks down the former musician turned haloumi cheese maker in a suburban basement, before heading to Noosa where he finds more food, glorious food.

“Everything I put in my mouth from Queensland is off the culinary scale!”

Al brings together his “Taste of Queensland” dish, cooking up Blue spanner crab with Moreton Bay Bugs and of course that endemic pineapple in a sumptuous salad with Noosa beach as his backdrop.

Dishing up Australia with Al Brown screens on TV One this Saturday at 8pm.

Picture credit courtesy Imagination Television.

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