We don’t have Take-Out often. Not because I’m against take-out. I’m all for take-out. Unfortunately though, we live in an area where the take-out that is available is either really bad Chinese or really bad pizza. Hence the reason I make both of those myself. Thankfully my favourite take-out – Fish and Chips…
Tag: Seafood
Happy New Year
New Years Eve is always a quiet affair at our home. Lobster and Champagne. Our tradition for over 30 years. One of our local grocery stores brings in lobsters from the east coast and sells them for $10.95 per lobster. I pre-ordered five live lobsters and picked them up yesterday morning before heading to work….
Angel Hair Pasta with Lobster
I didn’t get nearly as much done as I had wanted on my days off this week. It snowed Monday and Tuesday wasn’t much better. So that left Wednesday. It was only raining so I headed down to Victoria to finish up my Christmas shopping. On the way home I stopped at the market thinking…
Garlic Prawns over Pasta
Last spring I froze a number of containers of our local spotted prawns. Beheaded but tails left on and frozen in water. This is the best way to freeze prawns or shrimp if you want them to retain their fresh caught flavour and texture. I still had two containers of local spotted prawns in the…
Risotto with Prawns
Dinner tonight was influenced by Mary. Of course dinner is often influenced by her. If you haven’t visited Mary’s blog Once Upon A Plate you are in for a visual treat. Mary posted today about an Oven Baked Parmesan Risotto. A little different than a traditional stove top risotto but delicious all the same. I…
Fish and Chips
Saturday night’s dinner – Fresh Petrale Sole breaded with fresh bread crumbs seasoned with parmesan cheese and lemon zest. To add a little more flavour I also grated a garlic clove on a microplane and mixed the paste in with the egg dip. Served with oven roasted potato wedges and a sauce made with Hellman’s,…
Sole in a Cream Sauce with Mushroons and Baby Shrimp
Fish again tonight. Sole served in a cream sauce with mushrooms and hand-peeled baby shrimp. This was a very easy dinner to put together. Dinner was served in less than 45 minutes after I got home from work. A simple Bechamel sauce seasoned with garlic, salt, pepper and just a little fresh grated Parmesan. The…
Homemade Pasta
Before leaving for work this morning I used the food processor to knead up a batch of pasta dough. The dough went into the fridge to rest for the day and about 4:00 PM I called Moe and had him take it out so that it could come to room temperature and be ready to…
Prawn Etouffee
Cajun was on the menu last night. I made this to share with our neighbours. Neither Clif or Barb had ever had Etouffee before and both loved it. In fact Clif declared it one of the best meals I’ve cooked for him. Although the original recipe calls for crawfish, they are hard to find…
Deep Fried Battered Prawns
We drove down to Victoria today to have lunch with our son and his girlfriend. It was Matt’s 28th birthday. I’m so happy that we live close enough to be able to see Matt as often as we want. I had intended to make an Asian style dinner with prawns and rice etc.. but didn’t…
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