Ok, so I still haven’t kicked a goal but I don’t want to think about that so I’m going to tell you how to catch a kangaroo. I love to eat kangaroo meat, but not the type you buy in the supermarket or at the butcher. My favorite is red kangaroo, caught in the bush.

When we were kids back at home in Bunbury, nearly every weekend my dad and my uncle Max and my four brothers and me would go to a farm, which was my dad’s mate’s farm.

We just go there and walk through the bush. Some of us walk through the bush, some of us sit on the pad. A pad is a kangaroo track, they usually stick to it through the bush and scrub and after a while it comes like a little pathway for the kangaroos.

The farm has a lot of big long paddocks, so it is a fair way to walk but we’d do anything to get that meat.

My dad and uncle would sit on the pad with two guns. They sit there or close to it and hide behind a tree with a gun and just shoot the kangaroo.

Then we take it home. Dad usually does the skinning, sometimes I did it but I’m still learning. We skin it, cut it into pieces and then hang it on the clothes line and then the next morning take it off and cut it up and have a feed.

We’d also eat a bit of emu and rabbits but basically kangaroo is the best.

Now I’m in Sydney and I’m loving it. I’d like to stay here as long as I can find out where to catch kangaroos. But Sydney is a pretty big place, I know there is a wildlife park somewhere nearby so I’ll go there for a look! (ha ha)

Ryan O’Keefe has been teaching us boys how to cook, but I’m going to show him how to make sweet and sour kangaroo.