PH Cooking Challenge - Shrimp/Prawn
Discussion
Foodies of PH...it has to be time for another competition?!?
I suggest the subject be the humble decapod crustacean - the Shrimp/Prawn. Such a versatile ingedient; can be cooked any number of ways, in a huge array of dishes from all over the world.
So, show us what you can do with your shrimp.
Post maximum of 3 pictures showing ingredients, prep/cooking and the final dish.
Pics/dishes to be posted from Tuesday 1st February onwards, closing Saturday 5th.
Prize may or may not be awarded for best dish as voted by your peers.
I suggest the subject be the humble decapod crustacean - the Shrimp/Prawn. Such a versatile ingedient; can be cooked any number of ways, in a huge array of dishes from all over the world.
So, show us what you can do with your shrimp.
Post maximum of 3 pictures showing ingredients, prep/cooking and the final dish.
Pics/dishes to be posted from Tuesday 1st February onwards, closing Saturday 5th.
Prize may or may not be awarded for best dish as voted by your peers.
I reckon we stick to prawns/shrimp to try and keep a level field.
Most contenders will be in the UK and restricted to Tesco or, if they are lucky, a decent local fishmonger.
No need to rub it in by using Obsiblue or a mud-lobster.
And remember, it's not how big it is.....it's what you cook with it.
Most contenders will be in the UK and restricted to Tesco or, if they are lucky, a decent local fishmonger.
No need to rub it in by using Obsiblue or a mud-lobster.
And remember, it's not how big it is.....it's what you cook with it.
oilydan said:
Pics/dishes to be posted from Tuesday 1st February onwards, closing Saturday 5th.
Disqualified for posting too early
Also, are those 'lobster tails' actually made of lobster, or are they the reformed mechanically recovered fish brains that they use for 'crabsticks' pressed into a lobster tail shape. If so....
Disqualified for using fish and passing it off as lobster.
calibrax said:
D'oh. I thought it ended on 1st Feb! In any case, I won't have time to do anything between the 1st and the 5th, as it's the busiest week of the month for us accountants. So please undisqualify me!
And yes, those lobster tails are indeed 'shaped fishmeat' ... but in my defence I didn't realise that when I got them. Only discovered it shortly after taking that pic, when I went to cut them up! I did think they were suspiciously cheap. But seemed a shame to waste them... after all it's just made of the stuff that would otherwise be used to make stock, so it does add flavour. The dish was extremely tasty!
OK, undisqualified for being an accidental 'shaped fishmeat' eating accountant. And yes, those lobster tails are indeed 'shaped fishmeat' ... but in my defence I didn't realise that when I got them. Only discovered it shortly after taking that pic, when I went to cut them up! I did think they were suspiciously cheap. But seemed a shame to waste them... after all it's just made of the stuff that would otherwise be used to make stock, so it does add flavour. The dish was extremely tasty!
Just don't use Spam when we do the pork competition....
get a move on! 
Goughie said:
Lol. I'm out there in less than two weeks for some consultancy in the fish sector! You go to Deira fish market to buy your fish?
I last came away with a 2kg tuna, a 2.5kg bream, 1kg tiger prawns and 1.5kg of monster prawns (all 4 of them!) for about 30 of your British Pounds.
Are you coming to teach them about overfishing? I think someone might need to, soon....
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