This is a photograph of Garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles. Click on the photograph and you'll see how I ate them. — Garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles. Click on the photograph and you’ll see how I ate them.

With the memory of Asian bolognese from Thursday night at XO Restaurant still fresh in my mind tonight I made garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles. In my mind an improvement on an Italian garlic prawn pasta. This is the first time I’ve bought bacon for about six months. With the recent IARC/WHO announcement in mind I only bought one 50 g rasher. I’ve never done that before.

If you want to see how nicely the noodles were cooked check out the YouTube video I recorded.

Garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles

Recipe Type: Dinner

Cuisine: Australian

Author: [url href=”http://about.me/garydlum”]Gary Lum[/url]

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 15 mins

Total time: 25 mins

Serves: 1

Ingredients

90 g [url href=”http://www.hakubaku.com/en/”]Hakubaku organic udon noodles[/url]
250 g raw peeled garlic prawns
50 g streaky Primo bacon
2 teaspoons chilli flakes
1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1 teaspoon good grub hub wasabi sesame seeds
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon chopped basil
Zest from 1 lemon
1 tablespoon Greek yoghurt
100 mL light coconut milk
1 tablespoon garlic aioli
1 tablespoon fried shallots
1 tablespoon flaked almonds

Instructions

Get some water boiling and add the udon noodles for 8 minutes
Fry off the streaky bacon which has been cut into strips
Add the garlic prawns to the hot frying pan and stir fry until they just change colour
Remove the prawns and bacon from the heat and put into a bowl
When the udon noodles have cooked drain and add to the hot frying pan
Return the prawns and bacon to the frying pan and quickly fry
Add the Greek yoghurt, coconut milk and aioli and mix everything in
Add the parsley and stir
Turn off the heat and add the chilli flakes, cracked black pepper, wasabi sesame seeds, fried shallots and flaked almonds
Stir together and plate up into a bowl
Garnish with chopped basil, lemon zest and a little more of the wasabi sesame seeds
Shoot a photograph
Record a time-lapse video while eating
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb)
Share the recipe on the Hakubaku website and hope to win a prize

This was a really tasty meal. The udon noodles are terrific at absorbing the flavours of garlic and bacon and the hot and spicy chilli flakes.

For dessert I enjoyed some Weis’ pineapple, coconut and lime sorbet.

This is a photograph of a tub of Weis' pineapple coconut lime sorbet plus a small bowl — Weis’ pineapple coconut lime sorbet

This morning I went for a walk around Lake Burley Griffin (bridge to bridge) and shot some photographs

This is a photograph of the National Carillon — National Carillon

This is a photograph of orange Roses from near Old Parliament House — Roses from near Old Parliament House

For lunch I ate a poppy seed bagel with smoked salmon, cream cheese, wasabi sesame seeds, capers and dill. It was a pretty good sambo.

This is a photograph of a Smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers on a poppy seed bagel — Smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers on a poppy seed bagel

Roses from my garden bed.

If you want to see the photographs as a gallery click here. Click on one image to see it full size. To see the EXIF data (including a map if the photograph was geotagged) click on the information (i) icon in the top right corner. You can navigate through the gallery using the arrow keys or by swiping if you’re using a tablet or smartphone.

What do you think of my garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles?

The black swan is meant to be rare

Yet here in Australia they are common.

A few years back I was at a meeting in New Mexico and heard an American speaker use the term ‘black swan event’ and from the context it sounded like he meant they were events that had a very low likelihood of ever happening. I didn’t quite understand so I asked the question what did he mean. He said black swans were regarded as a rarity, an unlikely event. When he heard my accent he realised my confusion.

Talking about black swan events is an error if there are Australians in the audience. It’s similar to when people from the Northern Hemisphere refer to seasons for meeting dates and when I ask for clarification there is the realisation that the seasons are reversed for the Southern Hemisphere.

So after a bacon, egg and tasty Coon cheese fried bread sandwich I went for a walk around the middle loop of Lake Burly Griffin.