Surf and turf

Surf and turf meals continue to capture my imagination. I realise surf and turf meals aren’t cheap and not everyone likes to combine red meat and a sea creature, especially, grasshoppers from the ocean.

Happy end of financial year

Dedicated to Guga from Sous vide everything (again)

I got inspired by the prawn dish by Guga this week
Sous vide everything video

Prawns are delicious, so in a way, I don’t see why we don’t make better use of grasshoppers and locusts. I’ve enjoyed deep fried locusts in bacon fat and butter in Ha Noi and I was really impressed with how delicious the dish was. The only down side was picking out wings and legs from between my teeth for about twenty-four hours despite flossing and brushing. It was like a bit of wing would come out of nowhere.

I know that grasshoppers and locusts are hexapods (insects) and prawns are decapods, but they’re all arthropods. Okay, okay, prawns don’t have wings, and grasshoppers and locusts don’t have big muscular tails. This analogy is crap come to think about it.

In keeping with my reinforced need to keep to a low carb (low carbohydrate) lifestyle, this surf and turf dish is very simple. Let me know in the comments box below what you think of it please.

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I bought all the ingredients from Coles. Yummy Lummy is not sponsored by anyone.

Recipe

Surf and turf at the end of the Australian financial year
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
1 hr 30 mins
Faffing
20 mins
Total Time
2 hrs 10 mins
 
Surf and turf at the end of the Australian financial year. The books are closing so this is my big meal to say goodbye to FY2018/2019.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Keyword: Prawns, Scallops, Scotch fillet steak, Sous vide, Surf and turf
Servings: 1 Hungry Human Macrophage
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary
Ingredients
Surf—Prawns
  • 200 g raw prawns
  • 100 g raw scallops
  • 2 tablespoons salted butter
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes diced
  • 1 cup spinach leaves
  • ½ cup Parmesan cheese
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • Iodised salt
  • Black pepper
  • Paprika
Turf—Beef
  • Scotch fillet steak
  • Worcestershire sauce
  • Iodised salt
  • Black pepper
  • Garlic powder
Instructions
Surf—Prawns
  1. I buy raw prawns with the tail shell still attached. I don’t remove the shell because I like to eat the cooked shell. It’s good for calcium and I like the crunch.
  2. I never remove the alimentary canal from prawns. Life’s too short for that. If you can’t tolerate a little crunchiness that comes from the bowel contents of a prawn I think you’re just being a little too precious about life. You’d be surprised about how much faeces you come into contact every day. There are people who walk amongst us who don’t wash their hands after defecating. I bet there are people who poke a finger through the toilet paper while wiping their arse and still don’t wash their hands.
  3. Please note, I wash my hands after emptying my bladder and after defecating. I’m just saying I know there are people who don’t and I’ve been in enough public toilets to witness people not washing their hands.
  4. In a hot frypan add some avocado oil or other suitable high vapour point cooking oil and then sauté the prawns and scallops until they start to turn red and take on some colour respectively.
  5. Add in some iodised salt, freshly cracked black pepper, and some smoked paprika.
  6. Stir everything around until you’re satisfied the prawns and scallops are cooked.
  7. Remove the prawns and scallops to a bowl for later.
  8. Deglase the frypan with some salted butter on low heat.
  9. Add in the garlic after you’ve crushed and minced it and get them coloured.
  10. Add in the halved cherry tomatoes.
  11. Add in the spinach leaves and stir well.
  12. Season with iodised salt and freshly cracked black pepper.
  13. Toss in the parmesan cheese and stir through.
  14. When the spinach is wilted, toss in the prawns and scallops and add in the cream and simmer on low heat until the cream has reduced and you have the consistency you desire.
  15. Transfer everything to a serving bowl and top with chives.
    Surf and turf. Prawns, scallops, and scotch fillet steak with garlic
Turf—Beef
  1. Season both sides of the scotch fillet steak with iodised salt, freshly cracked black pepper, and garlic powder.
    Surf and turf Scotch fillet steak
  2. Soak in some Worcestershire sauce in a shallow bowl for about an hour.
    Surf and turf Scotch fillet steak Worcestershire sauce
  3. Put the marinaded steak into a vacuum bag and seal the bag.
  4. Heat the water bath to 55 °C (130 °F) and when the temperature is reached, put the steak in the warm water bath for one hour.
  5. After one hour, remove the steak from the water bath and remove the steak from the vacuum bag.
  6. Pat the steak dry with kitchen paper.
  7. Put the steak into the refrigerator for 10 minutes to cool.
  8. In a searing hot pan sear the sides of the steak.
    Scotch fillet steak
  9. Add a tablespoon of salted butter and turn the heat down to medium and baste the steak with the butter.
  10. Remove the steak from the frypan and allow it to rest for a few minutes on a plate.
  11. Slice the steak and salivate at the warm, pink, juicy and moist middle of each slice.
Plating up bit
  1. In a shallow bowl spoon in the creamy prawns and scallops with spinach and tomatoes.
  2. If you’re a wanky sort of cook, use some tweezers or forceps to delicately place slices of warm, pink, moist steak on the creamy prawns with spinach and tomatoes.
  3. If you like you could your wanky tweezers to to put a couple of prawns and scallops atop the slices of steak.
  4. Did you like the word ‘atop’, fancy hey!
  5. You know the easiest way to put the prawns and scallops on the slices of steak is to pick them up with your (cleanefingers and put the prawns and scallops on the steak.
  6. Garnish with cheeks of avocado.
    Surf and turf. Prawns, scallops, and scotch fillet steak with garlic
Blogging bit
  1. Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
  2. Eat the meal.
  3. Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
  4. Write the recipe.
  5. Write the blog post.
  6. Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

Disclaimer

I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.

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Questions and answers

Do you get bad dreams after eating paprika?

Yes, I do. I usually have nightmares after eating paprika. That is, unless, I go to bed in an extraordinarily good mood. Then I’ve had some very happy dreams if you know what I mean [wink].

Why is it important for a man to wash his hands after voiding his bladder? Shouldn’t his penis be clean?

Well, not all men wash themselves very well. I’ve seen some nasty skin infections. In addition, many gut bacteria move across the skin. The distance between the anus and the shaft of the penis isn’t that long no matter what a bloke says…

Below the waist, your skin is colonised not only with Gram-positive skin flora like commensal staphylococci and streptococci, but also with Gram-negative enteric (bowel) flora, you know like Escherichia coli.

The take home message is to always wash your hands after doing anything in the toilet (or bathroom if you’re from the United States of America where the word toilet doesn’t seem to be used in public or in polite company for reasons that are beyond me) and wash your hands before doing any food handling and cooking.

What’s the difference between a prawn and a shrimp?

What’s the difference between a toad and a frog? I used to think shrimps were small prawns but I call every crustacean with an exoskeleton and ten legs a prawn. People from North America call them shrimp. It doesn’t really worry me apart from the appalling sound of hearing Paul Hogan say “Put a shrimp on the barbie” just because some wanker advertising guru said no one in the United States would know what a prawn is.

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Final thoughts

  • What’s your favourite forms of ‘surf ‘n’ turf’?
  • How do you feel about living a low carb (low carbohydrate) lifestyle?
  • Do you wash your hands after attending the bathroom to empty your bladder or to defecate? Please answer yes.

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11 Responses

  1. Your dinner here looks and sound very delicious Gary. I might try it out. I do also use different names for the prawns, up to their size. I see shrimps like very small.
    Yes, I do wash my hands all over. I have tried to have a infection by campolybactor, which I got from a cold sauce at a festival for kids. I’m still grateful, that I said no to this sauce for my kids…

      1. I don’t know about that syndrome, have never heard about it. I went into hospital same days evening and stayed there for the next week. It demanded almost two years to come back to normal life after that.

  2. I like instructions 2 and 3… Do you know, I’ve never had surf and turf but yours looks delicious and any excuse for a creamy sauce, hmm? The low-carb lifestyle is one I embrace 75 percent of the time. And yes, I do wash my hands after going to the loo.

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