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I want to cook an Australian dish for my girlfriend so any ideas please. I could just ask her but that would kind of ruin the surprise. I know you guys like sea food... true?

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serve her a beer and oysters or beer and king prawns, or a beer and a bundy, or a beer and a beer....done! Aussie cuisine at its finest.
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well, i dunno about seafood, but meat balls (often called rissoles) and mashed potatoes always go down well. buy some beef mince, mix it with some bread crumbs, then roll the mixture into balls about the size of your fist. melt a large dollop of butter in a frying pan and cook the meat balls over a pretty high heat. (the butter should be sizzling). move the meat balls around so they are coated with the butter as they cook. serve hot with mashed potatoes and your choice of other veggies. tomato sauce optional.
A really simple one - but a bit greasy though, is potato scallops and battered fish.

Get really big potatoes and slice them thickly lengthwise. dipped each slice into batter and deepfried until golden brown - drain over paper towels.

Get fillets of fish. Batter them and deep fry them too.

serve together hot - with a good sprinkle of salt and tomato sauce, some side salad and a glass of beer.

Real Aussie, mate!
Australian cuisine tends to be a fusion of Asian and European influences. Fresh is best and seafood is big. Prawns, Balmain bugs, fresh fish, crayfish, crabs are all popular as are oysters, mussels, scallops and pipis. Freshwater fish and yabbies (freshwater crayfish) are also good. Steak in many forms is almost a national dish. You could also try wonderful things with rabbits.

Chicken is an old reliable, try a grilled chicken breast with a prawn and garlic sauce with a sprinkle of chopped mint and coriander. A fresh salad and some small boiled potatoes.

A pavlova is a very Australian dessert
Meat Pie, Damper, Seafood (fish and chips), pavlova, LAMINGTON!!! I love lamington....mmmm.... but remember, if your gonna make meat pie you MUST have tomato sauce.

HAVE A BARBIE!!! Invite a few friends, make sure there's grog and have fun.

x...Will.
Look for corned (salted) silverside. This a lean cut of beef and is cooked by simply boiling it. About an hour per kilogram, thats 2.2 pounds. Before it is ready, quarter unpeeled washed potatoes and cook in with the beef along with quartered carrots. In a separate pan cook fresh green beans. Serve with white sauce if desired, hot mustard also goes well. Any left over beef makes great sandwiches or corned beef fritters which can be served with sliced tomato.

Another favorite is roast leg of lamb. Again bake some peeled potatoes in the oven with the lamb, and you can do carrots either separately or in with the lamb. Also cook peas, maybe with a leaf or two of mint. Make up a gravy from the pan and also prepare mint sauce by steeping chopped fresh mint leaves in a quarter water, 3 quarter vinegar with a hint of sugar for twenty minutes.

Chicken - partially cook some ordinary rice for a stuffing, add chopped onion, sage etc to the rice and stuff the chicken in the normal way.

Dessert -a good fruit salad based on pineapple, ordinary apple, paw-paw, other firm fruit, dress with the pulp of some passionfruit, serves with a small side of good quality ice cream.

Pea soup made with bacon bones also goes well but that is really a cold weather dish.

Sea food - sand and mud crab, lobster, Moreton Bay bugs prawns, oysters. Generally served without much dressing, apart from lemon juice. Some people do not like crab very much, I can take it or leave it, some people are allergic.
What about kangaroo steaks?
Sainsbury's used to stock them.
And a Pav for pud