CRAB AND KING PRAWN LINGUINE

As you may know I have been travelling around a little bit on my days off this week. One of my trips was down to the quayside at North Shields and a visit to Sea View Fisheries where I brought  " A canny bit of fish like ! " as we say up here.
So I thought it was about time I started to use some of this beautiful produce and made myself a Crab and king prawn linguine.
So half a pot of crab meat and 4 king prawns were used to make this very quick supper. Note that I counted the prawns. I did buy more than 4 but at £16 per kilo I intend on using them sparingly. A Colombian drug lord would be proud of that price per kilo !

Colombian nose candy is probably cheaper than these babies !

I used a mixture of the White and brown meat from the crab. A taste before cooking was a mistake because all I then wanted to do was eat the lot their and then. A little squeeze of lemon juice and I would have been away.

But where are the additives ?

I cooked my linguine first in salted water. Then I sauteed some spring onion, a few small cubes of Chorizo in a little oil. Then added some cherry tomatoes, and then the linguine and then the crab meat.

Now it is very easy to over cook prawns. So I sauteed them in a separate pan to make sure that they were 100 percent pure ! ha ha !

I then added them to the other pan with all the other ingredients. And O mama what a treat. It smelt divine and with a few chives and lemon juice cutting through it I had a great quick supper. If you have the right quality of ingredients to start with you cannot go wrong. And these were quality.

I remember working with a girl at a hotel a few years ago in the kitchen. Now I am not one to hand out slimming tips but she was a big girl. Her best cleaning down trick was sweeping the floor with one hand on the broom handle and piling the rubbish neatly next to the bin not in the bin just next to it. She never got the dust pan and swept it up and put it in the bin and the only thing I could think of was that it was too heavy for her ! 

Anyway after watching her pack a burger, a bacon sandwich, 8 kids chicken nuggets , 4 duck spring rolls ( where she got them from I will never know as they were not even on the menu !) and one plate of chips I asked her if she would give me her opinion on a cod dish I had just made which I was thinking about putting on the menu. 

She replied " erh I don't like fish ! "

Now I could have taken " erh I am going to be sick out the way Kev you big stud muffin " after what she had eaten but this response from a fellow chef stunned me. Fair enough if you have a proper allergy to something that's acceptable but how can you be a chef if you don't taste all kinds of food. You might not like something but you need to be able to cook it for the customer. I wondered if it was something to do with her up bringing where the only fish she might have had was fish fingers or Cod and chips from the chippie on a Saturday night. Although looking at her I think she was more of a jumbo battered sausage kind of girl ! Ha Ha !

As I have said it is hard to believe that we live on an island. How many times a week do you have fish ? if its once I would be amazed. I intend on having a lot more in future I hope you do too.