#8 - V's first oyster...

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So tradition goes you only eat oyster's in months with an R in, so Sept through April.

This stems from eating native oyster season, i.e. not wanting to upset the breeding cycle or eat immature oysters, but is now more a tradition as you can eat non native oysters pretty much all year round...

One of my favourite places for oysters is Riddle and Finns on a little lane in Brighton (they also do great lobster!), generally I think its fabulous to get the taste of the sea whilst smelling the sea (even better if its in sight)

http://www.riddleandfinns.co.uk/

A great oyster should be just that - a clean fresh taste of the sea. Some are variations on this - large creamy succulent oysters that you have to chew, or smaller down-in-one swallow varieties, but they have to have that juice with the taste of the sea.

So whilst in Sydney V and I decided to go out for sea food - you can't really not on a coast location!



We went out in Kirribilli to the local fish restuarant - Garfish

http://www.garfish.com.au/


Where I discovered V had NEVER had an oyster. This was just not right, so I decided to rectify the situation right away!

We ate a lot of seafood and fish that night - but we started with the oysters, I made V taste them plain before trying the mignonnotte (red wine vinegar and shallot) dressing, and unsurprisingly she liked them: another convert!

The Camden Road Cook