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Risitto served with a rant

 

Another mint day in Sunny Hawera today, the garden is officially a park and I now have a moratorium on gardening. I had a crack at the front of the bus with a tin of paint and a paint brush, lucky the engineer does not read the blog…..I hope! I had some egg yolks in the fridge for some reason, so I knocked up a round of mayo this morning, of course then I just had to use it, so on the risotto it went. This is a light and fragrant risotto, I had shop stock which is much clearer that my home made stuff and the rice seemed really white, (not sure what sort it was) without cheese or cream the mayo just added a bit of sumptuous.  My green purple flowering broccoli from Goldbush Micro farm is incredible. Listening has been RNZ all day, Kim was back ,she delivered up my favourite Rolling Stones song and interviewed a friends daughter. I reckon you need to be a pretty exceptional human being in some way to get on Kim’s show. Music 101 also delivered up some goodies, including my other favourite Rolling Stones track, some classic Tami Neilson and Troy Kingi plus plenty of other sonic goodness. They have a new thing where they have been playing National Babylon at 6pm on a Saturday, it is normally at 11pm one week night so I often miss it. This guy Mark Rogers cranks out a whole hour of really unusual and diverse music, much of which I already know but there is always something I like and have not heard before which is a bonus. I have always thought we are very lucky to have RNZ, they do play some crap music at times but in the last couple of years Saturday afternoon has become compulsory listening. Having to endure those fucking commercial stations with their middle of the road brown eyed girl and U2 playlists revolving continuously, interspersed with fucks trying to brainwash me to buy shit I don’t need, rounded out with idiot broadcasters spouting total bollocks is just one step more than I can handle. And on Sundays one can tune into The Most 100.4 FM. Anyway back to the main event!

 Homemade mayo

2 egg yolks

250ml grapeseed oil

½ t each salt & Pepper

Juice of ½ a lemon

2 t wholegrain mustard

 Whisk the egg yolks, add the oil very slowly a drop at a dime to begin with and then a slow drizzle once the mixture begins to emulsify, add the rest of the ingredients and refrigerate until needed.

 

Snapper Risotto with Turmeric Prawn

For 2

1/3 an onion finely sliced

2 cloves garlic finely sliced

¼ of a wildfire chilli finely sliced

1 small knob of ginger

1 small knob of butter

2 T olive oil

1 t frozen lemongrass

150g Arborio rice

300g snapper

500g fish stock

100g prawns

1 t turmeric

A green veg of some description

A lemon

Salt & pepper

Parsley & coriander to serve

A dollop of homemade mayo

Tip the stock into a pan and warm it up. Gently fry the onion, garlic, chilli and ginger in the butter and ½ the oil, add the rice 1 t of salt and lemongrass, stir to coat, slowly add the warm stock about 1/3 of a cup at a time and stir frequently so it does not stick. When half the stock is gone add half the fish. Meanwhile dry the prawns on kitchen towel, mix a pinch of salt with the turmeric and dredge the prawns in it. Once rice is ready, add the rest of the fish, fry the prawns in hot oil until crisp, cook your green somehow I used boiled purple broccoli stalks. Give the rice a generous squeeze of lemon juice and serve with prawns, greens a dollop of mayo and the herbs to finish.

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