Saturday night dinner party

Every since me and Carola moved in together in November last year, we've only had a few people around for one evening for a house warming. The house warming was just me, Carola and about 6 others having plenty of beer and wine and a few snacks. There were 2 people (Reetta and Joe) who could not make it and they are the lucky ones to have a special invite to our house this Saturday night for a 3 course meal. I guess this is our first meal we will have cooked for guests since settling in. This is very exciting for us as we both used to live in small one room apartments with no room to have any guests round and make them feel comfortable. This is much nicer now as there is a spare bed for them to sleep in if needed and we have a dining table and many other luxuries that we did not have previously.  

So this is what we are serving up to our lucky guests and yes there will be a little garlic and chilli in some parts of the recipes:-

Appetizer

Lobster Cocktail - Fresh lobster mixed with raw salsa, avocado, shredded lettuce and a lightly spiced home made seafood sauce.

Main Course

Fillet Steak with Red Wine Jus - The very best cooked fillet steak with a generous drizzle of red wine reduction served with hasselback potatoes, creamy mixed organic mushrooms and steamed broccoli.

Dessert

Chocolate Brownie, Vanilla Ice-cream with Fresh Cherries - Chocolate Brownie served up with some quality vanilla ice-cream and fresh cherries.    

O.k let’s see how Saturday night goes. I will report back with the recipes and some photos and hopefully some good stories.

and out

Scot

Garlic and Chilli prawns

This is a recipe from my other blog for a very delicious and fresh recipe using both garlic and chilli. It has a very clean and robust taste as the garlic and chilli is only briefly cooked. This combined with parsley, oil and lemon juice give it freshness and compliment the prawns perfectly. The oils take on the flavour of the prawn shells and makes a perfect flavoursome dipping sauce to mop up with some fresh bread. To be honest it is up to you how much garlic and chilli you use, I like it spicy so added 8 birds eye chilli's. Probably use half the amount of chilli for a medium spice heat. Enjoy!

Here is something very simple and very moreish. Make sure to use good quality prawns and serve with some very fresh crispy bread to soak up the the garlic and chilli oil. Preferably use fresh uncooked prawns in shells, they were out of stock at my supermarket so I had to get them ready cooked.

Serves 2 as starter

Equipment

• Frying pan
• Chopping board
• Sharp knife

Ingredients

• 8 Large fresh prawns

Prawns and Parsley

• 6 tbsp of olive oil
• 5 Garlic cloves diced
• 8 birds eye chillies finely sliced

Garlic and birds eye chillies

• A handful of fresh chopped parsley chopped
• Salt and pepper

Method

• Heat a frying pan to medium/hot heat.
• Add the oil
• Add the garlic and chilli and fry for 1 min
• Add the prawns and fry for 2 mins
• Turn over the prawns
• Add salt, pepper and half the parsley
• Let fry for 2 mins
• Stir and serve up
• Squeeze some lemon juice over and add rest of parsley

Garlic and Chilli Prawns

Garlic and Chilli Prawns Done!