Friday night- Dub Music and Keilbasa Bacon Fettuchini Alfredo Topped With Prawns.

phreaktor · 10-03-2009, 10:11 AM

Sounds crazy right? It was.

I stopped by my parents house to have a chat with Pops and Mom was cooking with her friend for a birthday she is catering. She had 5lbs of prawns (which I have never seen before) and I kinda begged her for a few to take home. Here's what I came up with:

I hate typing out the recipe, so I'll keep it pretty general

Prawns
16oz Polska Keilbasa
4 Strips of bacon with drippings
16oz jar of alfredo sauce (NO RAGU crap!)
16oz box of fettuchini
1 medium onion
Minced garlic
Extra Virgin olive oil
Old bay
Ground pepper
Fresh parsley

Vegetable:

A few bunches of broccoli
Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper

Chop up the onion first. It's critical to prep all of your ingredients first so everything finishes at the same time.

Start boiling your water for the pasta and cleaning your prawns. Split the back open by making a quater inch deep cut in the back. Clean out the shrimp poop.

add a couple tablespoons of olive oil to a frying pan and toss in the onions and garlic. sautee for about 5 minutes and scoot them over to the side of the pan away from the heat. Add the keilbasa to the pan and cover. You can also start the pasta:

I also started steaming some broccoli at this point. Add about an inch of water to pot, put in the veggies bring to a boil, and cover. This should only take about 6-7 minutes depending on the amount. Just pierce with a fork and make sure the stalk is tender. Season with lemon pepper (Mrs. Dash) and sprinkle with a little olive oil (healthier than butter and adds more flavor)

Keilbasa is done. Keep an eye on the onions that are piled up in the corner. You don't want to burn them. You may have to remove them early and set them in the oven or microwave.

Now things start moving quickly. I like my bacon that I put in entrees to have a chewy bite to it rather than crunchy like breakfast bacon. It also retains more of it's flavor this way. Put the bacon in the microwave for about 3 minutes.

Slice up the keilbasa into 1/4" pieces:

Slowly melt about 3 table spoons of butter in a tablespoon of olive oil. Add a tablespoon of garlic and your Old Bay/pepper seasoned prawns. Sautee on each side about 2-3 minutes and remove from heat.

Chop up a few tablespoons of parsley and crumble the bacon. Heat up the Alfredo in the nuke, toss the keilbasa, onions/garlic, bacon with drippings, parsely, and sauce with the fettuchini. Make sure it is well mixed and everything is coated well. Garnish with more parsley and toss the prawns on top.

NSFW Food Porn:

The meal was ecstasy.

calin · 10-03-2009, 03:03 PM

Damn phreak, all your nom's look delicious!

Thanks for posting! I'm going to have to make this sometime next week.

Gimme dem prawns!

surfcity40 · 10-03-2009, 05:26 PM

Phreak makes some pasta for sure. Nice prawns.

phreaktor · 10-04-2009, 11:50 AM

I've never seen them in stores anywhere. Do you have to go to a seafood place or something?

Motormouth · 10-04-2009, 12:31 PM

that first pic of the cleaned prawn... I mean... we all know what it looks like right?

ok. carry on. there are some serious calories in that meal! I can approve. haha

surfcity40 · 10-04-2009, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by phreaktor

I've never seen them in stores anywhere. Do you have to go to a seafood place or something?

Prawn
Shrimp
They are different creatures but in Cali, stores will call shrimp prawns when they get to a certain size.

Motormouth · 10-04-2009, 05:19 PM

yeah dude, you can get prawns in a lot of places. easy at asian grocers too. try H mart on rt 70.

phreaktor · 10-05-2009, 01:52 PM

Is that the Asian market in that shopping plaza down a mile from 295 on 73 S?

Motormouth · 10-05-2009, 02:09 PM

you got it. that place rocks. it's right off of the 295 exit, just gotta take the jug handle at greentree rd (I think it's greentree).

phreaktor · 10-05-2009, 03:42 PM

Oh OK! I was always curious about that place. I'm right there at DK Hobby buying RC parts every week just about. I always see Asian cuties walking out of there, but I never went in...

Motormouth · 10-05-2009, 09:29 PM

it's a fun store. lots of good **** in the frozen food section. the edamame packs they have there are like 99 cent. big selection of sea food, 50lb sacks of rice for cheap, good and rare produce... decent candy section. the packaged grains, salt and spices and noodles are also nasty awesome. good store. it's like a mini china town to be honest. the back of the store has all sorts of random gadgets and boxes and whatnot.

that hobby store is so small. it's amazing how all the stores closed up, I think that is the only shop left in the area to be honest. None of the mall stores are still open. the only other one I know of is AAA hobbies on White Horse Pike in lawnside. that is a pretty good shop for models, but I don't know about RC stuff, don't really see much there.

phreaktor · 10-05-2009, 10:28 PM

Yea, DK is small, but she carries a lot of the hard to find OFNA parts I need for my 1/8th on road car. There's CHick's Hobbies in Gibbsboro too. Internet prices are killing them...

Check the broiled Porterhouse steak thread.

Motormouth · 10-06-2009, 06:59 AM

will do.

I just remembered they opened another really (really) great asian food down 38 just past the Cherry Hill mall. it's gigantic. it literally had ever glass jar of weird **** I ever wanted.

and a sweet ass bakery.

NA350Z · 10-12-2009, 08:45 AM

Please repost pics, what the hell is going on with photobucket

phreaktor · 10-12-2009, 11:59 AM

I organized all of my albums and every single pic I have ever posted is broken.

. I just need to add /phreaks%20%kitchen/ after phreaktor in each of the links.

phreaktor · 10-12-2009, 02:16 PM

Links working again...

sugarspunZ · 10-15-2009, 07:47 PM

looks so damn good, but jesus christ phreak what is your cholesterol?

phreak = heart-attack man.

surfcity40 · 10-15-2009, 08:05 PM

he buys cheap helis at target.

phreaktor · 10-15-2009, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by surfcity40

he buys cheap helis at target.

Sugar, I'm not on a strict diet right now, but I eat very very well. Most of my diet consists of grilled chicken, canned tuna, cereal, complex carbs in the AM and 2 hours before my workout/right after my workout, baby carrots

, Raisin Bran

, beans, fruit, shakes, and just about anything I can get my hands on when I am in a bulking phase. I just enjoy the hands on process and skill of cooking.

i r teh fatass.

sugarspunZ · 10-15-2009, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phreaktor

Sugar, I'm not on a strict diet right now, but I eat very very well. Most of my diet consists of grilled chicken, canned tuna, cereal, complex carbs in the AM and 2 hours before my workout/right after my workout, baby carrots

, Raisin Bran

, beans, fruit, shakes, and just about anything I can get my hands on when I am in a bulking phase. I just enjoy the hands on process and skill of cooking.

i r teh fatass.

whatever works man. more power to you.