What did you cook or eat today (September 2020)?

[Burt Blank]

Pasta with veal mince ragu, my cheese of choice is Lithuanian Dziugas. The flavour is wonderfully strong and is half the price of pec/parm . Has anyone tried it.

 

[caseydog]

I don't think I'm the only one who doesn't cook the prawns in their shells. It's messing with them in the sauce that puts me off. I cannot put the whole prawns in my mouth and then spit out the shell like the Chinese do.

When I lived in Kuala Lumpur and ate sambal udang in The Shangri-La, I would always ask the chef to remove the shells before adding to the sauce.

This is my effort at Sambal Udang.

Sambal udang.jpg

• Yorky
• 19 Sep 2020

I always buy my shrimp with shells on, but peel them before I cook them. I would say that that is the way most in the US cook shrimp. Like you, I don't want to peel the shells off of something swimming in sauce, or in a bowl of gumbo.

CD

 

[Yorky]

I always buy my shrimp with shells on, but peel them before I cook them.

As do I. Well my wife buys them and peels them. Then I cook them.

Freshwater prawns:

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• Yorky
• 19 Sep 2020

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• Yorky
• 19 Sep 2020

 

[Yorky]

Rogan josh with cauliflower and potatoes.

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• Yorky
• 19 Sep 2020

 

[LissaC]

Yorky your sambal udang looks so good. Yes I dont cook prawns in their shells either

 

[indianwells]

Pasta with veal mince ragu, my cheese of choice is Lithuanian Dziugas. The flavour is wonderfully strong and is half the price of pec/parm . Has anyone tried it.View attachment 46611

My wife is Lithuanian so I shall ask her when she comes home from work!

 

[MypinchofItaly]

A mix of puff pastry tarts:

1. Basil pesto + grated potato
2. Basil pesto + tuna + cherry tomato
3. Basil pesto + tuna + olive taggiasche
4. Olive taggiasche + chopped cherry tomato

I’ve filled each crust with Provolone cheese

 

[Morning Glory]

I only did the chicken, chorizo and potatoes, my better half did the salad and photo. Presentation is a weak point of mine.

Give her my commendation.

 

[Morning Glory]

Yorky your sambal udang looks so good. Yes I dont cook prawns in their shells either

But the shells were on your prawns in that prawn curry #457 ... or am I losing the plot?

 

[LissaC]

But the shells were on your prawns in that prawn curry #457 ... or am I losing the plot?

Only heads and tail ends

 

[Morning Glory]

Only heads and tail ends

Ah. I see.

 

[LissaC]

Ah. I see.

Most restaurants that serve dishes with prawns here in Portugal leave the heads and tail ends only because it looks better like that. I somehow got used to it and rarely remove heads and tails even if I’m just cooking for myself.

 

[medtran49]

I always buy my shrimp with shells on, but peel them before I cook them. I would say that that is the way most in the US cook shrimp. Like you, I don't want to peel the shells off of something swimming in sauce, or in a bowl of gumbo.

CD

I will never forget the Emeril Live show years and years ago where he breaded and fried shell-on shrimp for po'boys and served them up to some people.

 

[CraigC]

You have to have whole shrimp to make this dish:

Recipe - BBQ Shrimp

 

[TastyReuben]

Trail Bologna, Cheese, Pickles, And Beer

• TastyReuben
• 19 Sep 2020