Main: Banana Prawn Risotto
Taste Recipe (on-line)
Dessert: No-bake Strawberry Cheesecake Slice
Delicious at our Table
“A delicate flavour. A sensory delight”.
Hi Everyone!
The above quote is what my dear friend said about tonight’s dessert. It was her birthday so she celebrated with us and it was so great to have some extras at our table because we really haven’t been having the usual numbers due to COVID. We’ve really missed it.
Anyway she is a pescatarian so I had to hunt around for something that would suit everyone and I found a great recipe on-line by Taste. Certainly one of my favourite sites. The MAV doesn’t like rice or pasta so he wasn’t overjoyed at the prospect of risotto but I certainly was, as was everyone else. Let me just say here that the entire night was lactose free. All the cheeses and the cream are available in lactose free. Thank you Liddells and Zymil. Three out of our six people certainly went home with a much more settled tummy than they otherwise would have and none of the flavour was sacrificed.
The flavours in the risotto are lovely by themselves but I decided to add baby spinach and cut up asparagus to give it a hit of green.
The recipe calls for the green prawns to be cooked in the rice but next time (and there will be a next time) I would quickly toss the prawns in some garlic and cook them separately in a fry pan then add them to the risotto. It was felt across the board that by cooking them in the rice it perhaps pushed it to a stronger fishy flavour. This didn’t in fact bother me but it was just a comment made by a couple of my dinner guests and I always like to take these things on board. Go crazy with the lemon and parmesan too, it really gives the whole dish a lift and I did notice that people were kind of shovelling it in…….. Super easy, super tasty & super light- please give this one a go. 9/10
This luscious no-bake strawberry cheesecake would easily feed 10. I gave some to my guests to take home and we also had left overs for a couple of nights. It is light and mousse like without the more traditional dense texture of cheesecake.
I felt that it was also not too sweet and with the layering of the flavours each mouthful was a surprise. My friend said it tasted even better the next day. 8.5/10
Until next week…
From my table to yours with love x
