my-halflife: a food photo blog: Garlic Shrimp

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Garlic Shrimp

It wasn’t the perfect dish, but it a start of some thing.
The grilled garlic shrimp, with olive oil and chopped red chilies was alright, but that’s easy.
I added sun dried tomatoes in a shrimp/arrack reduction, with a kithul hakuru/balsamic vinegar balance, but that over powered the shrimp sauce. So I need to re-do that.
The green beans were just blanched in boiling water, and were a very crisp counterpoint to the shrimp.

1 comment:

Unknown said...: gambas al ajillo in Spanish. Peel the shrimps and cook with lots of chopped up garlic in a terracotta dish with a sliver of olive oil so the shrimps don't stick.; 4:30 am, April 20, 2007

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Pradeep Jeganathan was born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he lives and works. He began to cook when he discovered, as an undergraduate in the US, that MacDonald's was terrible. He continued, when he realized that girls like a guy who knows to cook. After he took up photography as a hobby, he got into shooting food. He has eaten a lot of cold meals since, but he hasn't stopped, because taking a photograph, helps him remember what he's eaten. (He eats a lot, and some times, he forgets). His food photos have been published in a variety of international and Sri Lankan print magazines and web sites and his food photo/recipe columns have appeared Zero77 & Spectrum ("Achcharu") and will soon appear in Ink. He's been a featured chef on ETV's The Home Gourmet, his cooking and food photos have been the subject of a feature article in Sri Lanka's Sunday Times; his food blog has also been featured in Femina.in -- the Indian women's magazine.