I had a mission today: cooking dinner.
OK it reads quite funny on a cooking blog but lately I've haven't been any close to my kitchen. MrM was rightly complaining about late night working, booooooring boiled vegetables and tasteless "pasta in bianco" on those rare occasions I prepared something to eat. Luckily my brioche au chocolate on Sunday put his soul at rest for few days. But here we were today, he being in Brussels for the last couple of days and my desire to be a good girlfriend.
With no spare time I decided to cook the chowder or caciucco, very little effort for great reliable results. I went to Jeroboams on Heath Street with a clear intention to buy a white from the new world. The poor guy that helped me suggested 15 different bottles and I wasn't listening to him. I just said: I don't want a french white. I left the shop with a new zealand white and … a french white! I got inspired thinking about our trip to Burgundy later in June and I also bought a bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse.
And I ended up changing plans for dinner!
Ingredients
350g raw jumbo king pranws - peeled
50g unsalted butter
1 garlic clove
1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
1 tbsp chopped parsley
4 tbsp lemon juice
Preparation
Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the chopped garlic. Simmer at medium heat until the garlic has slightly softened. Pour the lemon juice, add parsley and mustard and cook together for 8-10 minutes to ensure the flavours mix well together.
Preheat the oven at 200˙fan (230˙non fan assisted), place the prawns in a shallow baking dish (I used my pie dish). Pour the sauce over the prawns and stir well.
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes until the prawns are pink and not shiny.
Serve with a crusty homemade ciabatta bread. This time I used 200g burrito flour and 200g wholemeal spelt flour and no oil. Probed much better!
OK it reads quite funny on a cooking blog but lately I've haven't been any close to my kitchen. MrM was rightly complaining about late night working, booooooring boiled vegetables and tasteless "pasta in bianco" on those rare occasions I prepared something to eat. Luckily my brioche au chocolate on Sunday put his soul at rest for few days. But here we were today, he being in Brussels for the last couple of days and my desire to be a good girlfriend.
With no spare time I decided to cook the chowder or caciucco, very little effort for great reliable results. I went to Jeroboams on Heath Street with a clear intention to buy a white from the new world. The poor guy that helped me suggested 15 different bottles and I wasn't listening to him. I just said: I don't want a french white. I left the shop with a new zealand white and … a french white! I got inspired thinking about our trip to Burgundy later in June and I also bought a bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse.
And I ended up changing plans for dinner!
Ingredients
350g raw jumbo king pranws - peeled
50g unsalted butter
1 garlic clove
1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
1 tbsp chopped parsley
4 tbsp lemon juice
Preparation
Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the chopped garlic. Simmer at medium heat until the garlic has slightly softened. Pour the lemon juice, add parsley and mustard and cook together for 8-10 minutes to ensure the flavours mix well together.
Preheat the oven at 200˙fan (230˙non fan assisted), place the prawns in a shallow baking dish (I used my pie dish). Pour the sauce over the prawns and stir well.
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes until the prawns are pink and not shiny.
Serve with a crusty homemade ciabatta bread. This time I used 200g burrito flour and 200g wholemeal spelt flour and no oil. Probed much better!
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