a day in Bristol
Yesterday Jana and Harvey joined us on our afternoon walk…
And last night we had dinner round at Carlyn and Paul’s house - and had a really great time. Carlyn cooked chilli prawns (a jamie oliver recipe) and I cooked a (rock hard) chocolately biscuity pudding.
I think this is the chilli prawn recipe:
350g dried spaghetti
450g small vine-ripened tomatoes, skinned
2 tbsp olive oil
3 fat garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 medium-hot red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
1 bunch spring onions, trimmed and thinly sliced
450g cooked and peeled king prawns
20g fresh flatleaf parsley leaves, chopped
Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. Add the spaghetti and cook according to the packet instructions, until al dente. Meanwhile, working over the sink, gently squeeze and burst the tomatoes to rid them of most of their seeds, then roughly chop. Shortly before the spaghetti is ready, heat the oil in a pan over a medium heat. Add the garlic and red chillies and sizzle gently for 1 minute. Add the spring onions and cook for another minute, then add the tomatoes and cook gently for 30 seconds, until just heated through but still holding their shape. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Drain the spaghetti well and return to the pan. Add the tomato mixture, prawns and chopped parsley. Mix and serve.
Today I went to off to Bristol to see Julia, Tom and Noah for lunch - we had soup - and we had a chat about some illustrations I am doing for them for a website. Tom’s business is called Scend:
www.scend.co.uk and Julia’s is called Urth: http://www.urth.co.uk/”>www.urth.co.ukAnd then I went to see the new Knowle West Media Centre building which is cool and made of straw! I met up with Romy who gives me freelance design work from time to time.
www.kwmc.org.uk
I’ve decided to enter the British Small Business Champions 2008 competition - so have to get the info to them by the end of this month.
