Do you remember the 1970s? Well, I am sure some of you do, even if you were only babes in arms. I was a young teenager at the end of the 1970s but it was a time in London when great changes were afoot in the world of food. The height of sophistication at the time for a dinner party was probably something along the lines of prawn and avocado cocktail, steak with pepper sauce and Black Forest gâteau for dessert. And nothing wrong with any of that I say…but the 80s were soon going to herald the advent of Nouvelle Cuisine (or really tiny portions) and strange mixtures of ingredients such as Loin of some Obscure and Almost Extinct Creature Marinated in a Gooseberry and Guinness Jus. Well, you know what I mean.
Having watched a DVD of Abigail´s Party (I wish I knew how to insert video clips), I was clearly feeling nostalgic and decided to go a bit retro with my peeled prawns. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and accept you´re getting old…
Ingredients for 4 people as a starter
- Two lettuce hearts (use 8 of the bigger outside leaves and use the rest for salad)
- 1 cup of peeled prawns, cooked and cut in half if large
- 2 hard boiled eggs, chopped (not too finely)
- 1 ripe avocado (chopped into small cubes)
- 1 tablespoon of chopped parsley
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Half a cup of Marie Rose sauce (I made mine using 3 tablespoons of tomato ketchup, 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 1 heaped teaspoon of horseradish sauce, 1 teaspoon of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce and 1 tablespoon of sweet chili sauce)
- Pimentón to taste
Simply mix all the ingredients together and spoon into the lettuce leaves. Sprinkle with hot or sweet Pimentón.
Now, put some groovy 1970s dinner party music on the built in Hi-fi, slip into a glamorous kaftan and enjoy the evening….
Chica Andaluza 