Prawns
A full-on day at work, with only time for a quick tomato, ham and cheese toasted sandwich and double-strength latte for lunch at two. It's "tight-ass Tuesday" (i.e. movies are half-price), and D.'s friend Grace is going to join us for dinner at home before seeing "Precinct 13". I pick up a West Australian Riesling on the way home, and quickly prepare the prawn pasta...
Finely chopped garlic and finely sliced fresh thyme leaves are thrown into a pan of hot olive oil, and a goodly amount of black pepper is ground into the mix. When the garlic shows signs of browning, the prawns are added and tossed around, before pouring in a glass of the wine and squeezing half a lemon and half a lime in for good measure. A pinch of sea salt and then on with the lid. After a few minutes to burn off the alcohol and cook the prawns, toss in a bug handful of chopped flat leaf parsely and three finely chopped chillis, and add enough white sugar to balance the flavours. Mix everything together, and serve on a bed of al dente spaghetti that has been tossed in olive oil and a dab of butter.
Dinner washed down with a pot of tea, before going to see "Assault on Precinct 13", one of the worse piece-of-shit movies with a number in the title that I've had the misfortune to sit through. I mean, Mark Wahlberg turned down he lead role for this crap-fest. Unbelievably, it made "Ladder 49" look good, and that was the previous holder of the worst piece-of-shit movie with a number in the title that I've had the misfortune to sit through.
Which got us talking, and we decided that although most movies with numbers in the title are bad, there are some good ones. Like "Se7en" and "2001: A Space Odyssey". And, strangely, although we could think of move titles containing the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, we couldn't think of a movie title that contained the number 5.
Finely chopped garlic and finely sliced fresh thyme leaves are thrown into a pan of hot olive oil, and a goodly amount of black pepper is ground into the mix. When the garlic shows signs of browning, the prawns are added and tossed around, before pouring in a glass of the wine and squeezing half a lemon and half a lime in for good measure. A pinch of sea salt and then on with the lid. After a few minutes to burn off the alcohol and cook the prawns, toss in a bug handful of chopped flat leaf parsely and three finely chopped chillis, and add enough white sugar to balance the flavours. Mix everything together, and serve on a bed of al dente spaghetti that has been tossed in olive oil and a dab of butter.
Dinner washed down with a pot of tea, before going to see "Assault on Precinct 13", one of the worse piece-of-shit movies with a number in the title that I've had the misfortune to sit through. I mean, Mark Wahlberg turned down he lead role for this crap-fest. Unbelievably, it made "Ladder 49" look good, and that was the previous holder of the worst piece-of-shit movie with a number in the title that I've had the misfortune to sit through.
Which got us talking, and we decided that although most movies with numbers in the title are bad, there are some good ones. Like "Se7en" and "2001: A Space Odyssey". And, strangely, although we could think of move titles containing the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, we couldn't think of a movie title that contained the number 5.
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