A Kitchen Diary of sorts with rather a lot of chit chat and some exceptionally useful recipes. Photos and artwork by Anna Vaught (me), Giles Turnbull and the generous people at Flickr who make their work available through creative commons. They are thanked individually throughout the blog.

Wednesday 17 June 2009

Another's slob's sandwich

All recipes copyright Anna Vaught.

Prawntastic sandwich.


Here is what I made for lunch today. The kick of chilli will revive you if you're flagging in the middle of the day.

You take a large white pitta bread. Stick it in the toaster and meanwhile.....take as many prawns as you think you could eat. I mean little prawns -- so called 'cocktail prawns'. Put them in a bowl and mix in freshly ground black pepper, a squeeze of lemon juice, a teaspoon of red chilli flakes and about a dessertspoon of mayonnaise. Of a decent sort. Mix it all in and, if you have them, adda few finely chopped fresh mint leaves -- or maybe a handful of lettuce (I hate icebergs though). I dispensed with the lettuce at the last minute to make way for more prawns. Mix everything gently and pile into the hot pitta bread, which you have halved and opened up gently to make pockets. Quick, simple and pretty satisfying I reckon. Voila!

Actually, it's not really a slob's sandwich, is it? That would be the salt and vinegar crisp and cheese sandwich I ate at a picnic the other day. Oooh: food of shame.

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