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Redemption

 

Ahhh the joy of expectation and peer pressure, I have managed to deal up a recipe tonight. I needed wine at 4pm to brace myself for 4 more days of lock up, the weekend of course is particularly hard to stomach. Back to the standby zoom drinks tonight, tragic at best, but listening to the banter about Anna’s new boyfriend is somewhat better than listening to myself. I am already sick of Jacinda banging on for 15 minutes before she deals up the rules, RNZ will be off at 1pm for a bit me thinks!

It took me most of the day to dream up a solution for last night’s marginal carrot, it went into the chowder, but I have provided you with the amended recipe as no one it their right mind would have that shite available in the fridge.

Seafood Chowder

Serves 2/3

2 T chilli oil

1 red onion

4 cloves garlic

1 T lemon grass

The green of a leek

1 carrot

1 parsnip

1 potato

6 anchovy fillets

300g smoked tuna or other fish

100g smoked mussels

250g raw prawns, tails removed

300ml milk

300ml water

A lime

Slice the onion, leek & garlic and sweat in the chilli oil, cut the carrot, parsnip and potato into small cubes and add. Squash the anchovy fillets, slice the fish and mussels and add with the lemongrass.

Cook all this up for a bit then add the milk and water, season to taste. Bring nearly to the boil and add the prawns, cook gently for another 10 minutes, try not to boil, as the milk will spilt. Serve in deep bowls with a squeeze of lime.

 My grandmother was a cracking cook, I still have her handwritten chowder recipe.

 



 

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