A friend cut this recipe for Martini prawns and pasta out of the Standard about a thousand years ago. I lost the actual details ages ago so I cook it from memory. The original called for chopped smoked salmon instead of prawns and Martini rather than white wine, but this version works just as well. I'm having it for my supper. Serves 2. Ingredients: 6 RipeTomatoes Fresh pasta About 20 or so large prawns, peeled (I buy … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2007
I feel crap, there’s a reason, and I’ll get over it.
I've always been crap at lying. You know how there are people who, if you ask how they are, convincingly say "I'm great!" and then six months later you find out that their cat died and their boyfriend left them for another man on the same day and you had absolutely no clue from the way she was acting. That's not me. I remember being really upset on meeting someone new once when I was at Uni- apparently they had been warned that "Kelly … [Read more...]
Potatoes a la Rustique
DH doesn't cook that much these days, now that he has a full-time wife. But every so often when the will takes him, he forcibly evicts me from the kitchen, makes all kinds of mess and produces something wonderful, as with Potatoes a la Rustique. Ingredients: As many potatoes as you need, cleaned. Handful fresh rosemary Handful garlic cloves Olive oil and a little butter Method: Put a good glob of olive oil into ovenproof dish. Pop in … [Read more...]
