MICROWAVE WONDER.

G’day all!
One thing I really love is seafood, so I thought I’d share one of our favourite recipes with you.
I made this on Tuesday 14th for our 8th Anniversary Dinner and made enough for Rob to take a couple of serves to work for his lunch. 

It’s not an expensive recipe and it can be made for vegetarians who eat seafood. It is easy to adjust the spices to your own taste….So here you go:

SHRIMP (Prawn) ETOUFFEE
“Etouffee” comes from the French word for smother, stew, or braise. Seafood is smothered in a tangy tomato-based sauce. It’s part of Cajun & Creole cuisine. 

Ingredients:
(A)
1/4 cup margarine
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped spring onion
1 cup chopped green capsicum
4 or more large cloves of garlic minced
1 cup diced celery

(B)
1 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
4 tblspns tomato paste
2 tins condensed cream of chicken soup (for vegetarian use either cream of celery or mushroom)
Salt to taste
1/2 tspn or more of Tabasco sauce to taste
1/2 tspn cayenne pepper.

(C) 
500gms or more of previously shelled and de-veined prawns (shrimp).

Method:

1) In a large microwave safe dish, combine all ingredients in (A) list. Heat on High settings for 8-9mins.
2) Stir in ingredients in (B) list and heat on high for 5mins. Stir well and add (C) prawns and heat for another 5 mins until mixture thickens.

Serve over rice on pre-warmed plates.  (4 servings)

I opted to list the ingredients in the groups they are added as it makes it a whole lot easier in preparation.
The whole meal can be thrown together while you share drinks with guests…just so long as you have cleaned the prawns beforehand.
It’s one of those meals that tastes as though it’s taken ages to prepare and will have family and friends coming back for more.

It’s been a busy time in our garden lately. Our motor mower gave up the ghost, so Rob is using our hand mowers (we have 2) to keep the grass in check.  We are still waiting for the trench in our dog run (sewerage pipes) to be backfilled. The hold up is that the pipes need sealing with cement before they are re-covered with sand and dirt. My son is flat strap, so it will get done when he has the time.

Miss Sookie is now around 16kgs+ and has really found her place in the family…on our bed, on the lounge and wherever Ziggy wants to lay undisturbed! She has no problem with waking Rob up if she fancies an early breakfast and a wee visit outside. We’ve been pretty lucky because she’s not particularly destructive, like a lot of pups – she does, however love bromiliads to munch on, so we had to put a low fence up around the garden beds up against the house. Fortunately we had the materials on hand, so that was a big saving.

Ooops – just spotted the time and I’ve got nothing out for dinner yet!
Catch up with you sooner!

Vickie.