Happy New Year

As this year draws to a close, receive God’s Peace. Thank God for His Peaceful Presence, Abundance of Provisions, Helps and Protections, Loving us. Let’s dependence on God’s Love and letting it flow around the world.

Each of us resembles the prawns, prosciutto, and vegetables with XO chili sauce platter. We are one big family of the Creator. No matter what colours, religion, size, occupations, and nations. This New Year let us all be at PEACE with one another, UNITED by bringing our respective personalities to the world where we can show LOVE around the world. Our JOY can be satisfied by our Creator.

It’s not too late to seek forgiveness, to be humble, to be generous, to be “the branches”. Branches can’t grow through hard work but through the nourishment received from the Creator. Just like my creation platter above: the prawns depend on vegetables to complete the meal; so too vegetables depend on prosciutto and XO chili sauce to caramelise the prosciutto wrap asparagus. Mushrooms, cucumbers, and medley tomatoes add colours bursting with juice, crunchiness, and cleanse our palate which shines all around the platter. The platter is our Creator enveloping all of us in His Love. Let’s cook and remember to thank God for everything and moving to New Year with PEACE!!!

Ingredients

15 cooked prawns, tails intact
9 green beans, both end removed
7 asparagus, end removed
7 prosciutto
6 sliced mushroom
6 different colours medley tomatoes
3 cucumbers
XO chili sauce
oil
black pepper
salt
water

Method

Bring a saucepan with salted water to a boil. Place a bucket with cool water in the sink. Once hot water starts bubbling, add in the asparagus. Cook for 5-7 minutes. Using food tongs to transfer them to the bucket of cool water for 1-3 minutes. Now add in the green beans. Cook for about 6-8 minutes. Once 3 minutes are up, transfer asparagus to a plate lined with paper towel.

Using the food clippers to transfer green beans to the bucket of cold water. Let’s stand for 1-3 minutes. This is to stop them from further cooking and to maintain the green colours. The same goes for asparagus. Now switch off the hob. Put the prawns into the salted water; as it’s cold from the fridge, just to thaw the icy cold prawns and warm them up a bit.

Open the packaging of prosciutto. Bring out a long slice of prosciutto to wrap around the asparagus from 1 cm above the end, leaving the top spears exposed. Repeat until the asparagus and prosciutto are finished; set aside. With the last piece of prosciutto, wrap it into a triangle and set aside. Then take 1 long green bean, cut it into 3 sections. Bring out the prawns from the lukewarm salted water and place them on a paper towel. Gently pat them dry. Next, give the plate a warm wet wipe and dry it with a tea towel.

To assemble

Place the triangle prosciutto at the corner about 3 inches in. Now place the 3 sections of green beans on top of the triangle prosciutto. Try to make a peace symbol with 3 cooked, warmed prawns below the prosciutto triangle with green beans. Line the wrapped asparagus in a row inward on the plate. Now place 3 cucumbers next to the asparagus spears, followed by the 6 medley tomatoes.

Add 8 green beans to the top corner of the plate beside the medley of tomatoes. Next to the green beans on the left, line the sliced mushrooms. Lastly, alternate the remaining prawns with the shells up and then prawns with the shells down until finished lining them up. Drizzle some oil all over to gloss the vegetables, prawns, and prosciutto. Season some black pepper over the prawns. Now my favourite sauce: spoon the XO chili sauce over the prosciutto-wrapped asparagus. Enjoy with a chilled white wine!!!

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