Did you hear the one about the Princess, the Horse and the Lobster....

THE LOBSTER.

Ok this is not a fairy tale in which I rode on a horse with a lobster under my arm and rescued a beautiful Princess from the clutches of the evil Wizard. That would just involve too much effort and I am not big on effort ! ha ha !
This is really a simple recipe for a lovely lobster and Prawn dish I made tonight using some shellfish I received as payment from Joanne at Taylors Seafood for taking a picture of her and her horse for her dad.
As I have said before in a previous post Joanne is my contact for buying fish and when she rings I spend about 20 seconds talking about fish and then an hour catching up on her life story which is most entertaining. I wish we had a speaker phone in the kitchen so at least I can do some work while she's talking but she is truly lovely and entertaining.
Anyway back to the dish. Lobster does not need much doing to it. Keep it simple so that is what I did.
The Lobster came already cooked so all I had to do was get the meat from it. I am not going to go into fine detail as to how you do this but if you go onto You Tube and search for taking meat from a Lobster you will find an instructional video to view.
The Prawns were raw and would need to be cooked at the last minute like reheating the lobster.
I decided to make a simple Cream sauce using a pack of Fish stock from the supermarket, a pot of cream, a big squeeze of lemon juice, and a good gulg of Brandy.
I know I should make my own fish stock but not everyone who reads this blog have the desire or time to make things like fish stock from scratch so if I can make the dish easier to make and not tampering with the flavour too much then I will.
Place the fish stock into a pan, squeeze the lemon into the stock with the brandy and reduce by a third. Then add the cream and reduce that until you have a nice sauce consistence.

fish stock. I added the lobster shells to the stock to try and get a bit more flavour but if you do not have time don't worry.

 I served this with some roasted new potatoes and peas. To roast the new potatoes just boil them until they are cooked then put them in hot oil in a hot oven until nicely coloured.
The sauce is made and the veg is nearly ready time to put the dish together.

You need to cook the shellfish and you can either pop the lot into the sauce you made and simmer for about five minutes or you can pan fry them. The choice is yours.

Once you have prepped the Lobster this is a quick and tasty supper if a little expensive though. Maybe like me you could take up horse photography to pay for the addictive habit Shellfish can be ! ha ha !

Enjoy.

The horse and the Princess !