14/12/2025
Chucked a few ripe cherry tomatoes, garlic, onion and basil in a tray, sloshed in a heap of olive oil, and some lemon rind. Covered with foil and left over night in the oven on super low temp.
With the prawn shells and heads I made a prawn stock and a prawn butter. Cooked the shells gently for a couple of hours with mirepoix, tom paste, white wine and lashings of salted butter.
Reduced the cherry tomato sauce, added the reduced prawn stock, sautéed prawns, threw in some pasta, basil, lemon juice and massaged it all with some prawn butter.
Threw a bit of shaved fennel on top for some sharpness, pangrattato for some crunch and a little spritz of lemon olive oil. Was good. Like really blood good.