Week 5 of The Recipe Book Challenge

2013 Recipe Book Challenge

 

52 weeks - 52 recipe books - 52 new recipes 

Inspired by  The Grumbling Tummy

    

Week 5 - Women's Own Classic Cookery - Sweet Chilli Prawns

 

Week 5 brought a Chinese twist and I guessed you expected to see someone like the legendary Ken Hom or the lovely Ching-He Huang in my review but in actual fact it was from my slightly dogeared Women's Own Classic Cookery. I don't know when or where I purchased this book but it's one of my 'original gang' and it's starting to show its years. The classic rice pudding page is stuck together after an incident with a pint or milk, the cover is splattered by many an ingredient and it automatically falls opens at the chapter on deserts!

Now the recipe called for prawns however after having a good rake in the freezer I came across some nice looking cod (it did say in the recipe you could swap the prawns for cod...honest!)

The great thing about this recipe is it uses cornflour so for once I didn't have to swap ingredients for GF versions. I would therefore like to say I wholeheartedly followed the recipe however I didn't have sherry or white wine vinegar (and I grudged buying a whole bottle of sherry when I only needed a few tablespoonfuls). I therefore swapped the sherry/white wine vinegar combo for sherry vinegar. Genius or what?

The recipe was a doddle to follow; a handful or ingredients and lots of shiny photos. Unlike over at  The Grumbling Tummy HQ I remembered to marinade (Mrs Grumbling Tum tends to forget this part), in fact I think I may have over-marinaded it and the fish 'cooked' in the acid.

I made some fried rice to accompany the fish and overall the result was yummy, easy and a wee bit different for Sunday dinner.