Our friend The Captain came over the other night. We cooked up some crazy good food. Because that’s just what we do. We also drink beer (and cider, depending on the mood) talk smack and generally have the most fun ever. We made Barking Chupacabra’s™* chorizo, prawn and black bean tostones with passion fruit habanero salsa. Which. Were. Incredible! We had a general idea of what we wanted to achieve and just sort of winged the rest. Which is how I ended up separating passion fruit seeds from the schmutz

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I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce a new, somewhat regular, feature on my blog – “Cooking with the Captain”.   Ya’ll may remember my good friend Pines Grand Fortescue from this post a couple of months back. Every so often we get together and cook something crazy. Well, not necessarily crazy, more something that takes hours and hours to make, requires at least 2 hands and feet worth of counting to get all the fixings and usually has some sort of outrageous ingredient involved (this time it was illegal

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