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Crawfish Pie

In my home, Sunday Supper is all about decadent comfort food served family style, and this crawfish pie is exactly that. When sourcing crawfish, I look for Louisiana farm raised—which is a Seafood Watch “Best Choice” Green rating. Doing so supports small family farmers, a healthier planet, and aquaculture—which can play a critical role in the UN’s 2030 agenda.

Fish Head and Clam Chowder

This soup is based on a soup we’d often eat when I was a child – although what Dad made was much simpler and certainly didn’t have miso or shiitake mushrooms in it. Our food was very simple but my Māori heritage meant I was born to love fish heads. In Māori culinary culture they’re often thought of as the best part, reserved for chiefs. In Western culture they and the frames are thought of as a by-product to the chosen cut – the fillet. In my cooking class ‘Kai Moana’ (seafood) I teach people how to eat the whole fish from head to tail, including this recipe. I also teach it to communities living with food poverty (albeit I often make it simpler and less expensive) and we work with our great friends at Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae in Mangere East and the Kai Ika Project – who have saved hundreds of tonnes of heads and frames from ending up in landfill or on the ocean floor and instead been gifted to their community – feeding people with little cost.