MER de LAWN JUSTIN
during the wet season of christmas 1997 cyclone Justin came in from the coast
like a 500lb cream pie hitting a 90 lb clown. My studio became a bridge over a creek
(the creek was winning hands down) My paintings bobbing about like paper boats.
Rebecca and I headed for the hills,...to Anne and Warren Rices house near Koah.
We played un-named card games, fired WW11 weapons into the air, with foolish abandon.
and drank every last drop of alcohol they had.
Warren made sailboards, and Anne is NOT the hippy herbalist health food
writer I assumed she was.Which makes my fantasies about her so much more interesting.
Since we were already semi naked, drunk, and waving our bits at the onslought shouting
"caarn Justin...show us yer willy !" we invented the game of Grass Surfing on half
built finless sailboards, down sloping lawns which had turned to rapid flowing rivers
ala grass because of the overwhelming downpour.
The remaining food had to be cooked or discarded, and since it was mainly seafood,
we indulged in some inspired work. Having no power, but plenty of gas and red wine,
cooking became the only truly constructive thing we could perform in our drunken
mock scottish accents.
The card games remain a mystery.(I beleive one was called "Hammy Hammy"),and whether
or not I hit the deadfall sideways, or head on, has become irrelevant, but I remember
the recipe.

Ingredianta
SOME SEAFOOD
fish (light firm whitemeat)
prawns (peeled and split)
scallops(roe on)
calamari( baby octopus,whatever)
A COCONUT (or tin of cocnut cream)
A MANGO (or tin of mango slices)
BAY LEAVES
PAPERBARK

on a piece of paperbark arrange fish
with other seafood ontop.
lay strips of mango over that
lay bayleaves over that
drizzle cocnut cream over all
BAKE in medium hot oven for about 15-20 minutes
SERVE with jacket potatoes w/sourcream and chives
and a green salad on the side.

*note* cyclone justin delivered the mangoes and coconuts
and paperbark free of charge,
generally they were splattered against the house like soup.
if you ever get the chance to catch fish in Nth Queensland
and theres Melaluca trees, coconut palms, and Mangoes handy,
this is a luxury that cant be rivalled.
well apart from the "sex and lobster fantasy thing " with
that girl from "Cold Feet".

grass surfing is more fun than bowling