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by MELISSA FROHLOFF
Spicy tuna pasta bake
Ingredients
• 300g dried penne
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 brown onion, finely chopped
• Finely chopped fresh parsley to serve
Method
1. Cook pasta until almost tender, slightly undercook. Drain well.
2. Preheat oven to 180C.
3. Heat butter in frypan over high heat. Cook garlic and onion, stirring until golden.
4. Reduce heat. Add passata, herbs, sugar, chilli and salt, bring to simmer, add olives and tuna. Toss to combine.
5. Transfer mixture to a baking dish. Sprinkle with cheeses and bake for 25 minutes or until cheese is golden.
6. Sprinkle with fresh parsley to serve.
• 1 tbsp dried mixed herbs
• 2 tbsp chilli flakes
• 700g tomato passata
• 2 tsp raw sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup pitted, sliced black olives
• 425g tuna in spring water, drained, flaked
• 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, grated
• 1/2 cup tasted cheese, grated
Prep time: 15 min | Cooking time: 25 mins | Serves 4
Awesome annual trip to west Cape York
* from P63
though after a couple of hours of looking I found nothing along the contours, so we headed 12km north where my dad and I had caught good red emperor back in 1987.
usually chasing bait off a reef.
We got nothing there either, so we decided to look for a feed of blacklip oys- ters on the red rocks.
Once the tuna was landed, we anchored up and were on big grass sweetlip and marginally under legal-size nannygai and red emperor.
We called Deon on the VHF radio and suggested they come over for a feed too.
Every good fish Rodger hooked was taken by a shark, however I pulled big tuskfish past them on my 80lb hand- line!
A little later, Deon said he and Spud would go and start cooking, so Rodger and I fished our way back to the mouth of the Cotterell River.
For about an hour I must have let go dozens of big sweet- lip and tuskfish, but any red fish was ei- ther slightly under legal size or taken by a shark.
Here we found De- on baking a whole 55cm tuskfish on coals with potatoes and onions in foil.
Next day, we were back in the boats and spotted feeding tuna, so we decided to try and catch one for bait.
Fishing our way back down the coast to camp, we arrived at around 4pm with fish to clean.
After seeing them, I told Rodger that my dad and I used to find reef by find- ing tuna, which were
A week later we packed up and head- ed for home.
Rodger flicked out and was on to a mack tuna.
Under the tuna we found a great little bommie about 1.5m high and covered in fish life.
Until next time, be safe on the water.
Jamie Kowitz and Damo stayed a week and landed plenty of great sh.
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