I made a risotto this evening. And it was lovely. I was guided by a recipe of Jamie Oliver. (It would be inaccurate to say I "followed" the recipe.)
Let's start with the ingredients. The recipe called for raw prawns, which is fair enough. And having watched countless shows about all the amazing seafood our country produces I was happy to get prawns. However the only uncooked prawns I could find in the supermarket were from Thailand. Why?
I don't know much about wine, so when I saw a bottle that said "Good Dry French Wine," I thought, "That's the one for me." Ordinarily, I wouldn't know which wines are good and which are not. But this one said it was good. I couldn't find Parmesan, so I used cheddar. I don't have any olive oil in at the moment, so that is Morrison's own sunflower oil. And that isn't a real lemon either
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| Why didn't home economics teach me something useful, like how to chop finely? |
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| At this stage it didn't really fit in the pan anymore. Then I had to add peas, prawns, cheese, butter and more peas. |
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| Jamie says this is where the magic happens. Leave it alone and it will become creamy. Okay then. |
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| A hearty portion. |
I hope you de-veined your prawns! Don't want to be eating the poop-shoots now do you?
ReplyDelete(I hate Masterchef Australia for highlighting this to me cos it's the most frustrating thing to do in the kitchen and is pretty much why I always buy cooked prawns)