Prawns and Celery (Yes, you heard me correct!)
Boy, I am hungry. Looking in the freezer, I only see prawns and celery. Well, I also see whip cream, juice, cheese, and of course, cake!
in which none really helps me overcoming my hunger pangs begging for something salty, spicy, and filling. Of course there is the nutritous part in it too, it’s just that my tummy doesn’t know that, and most of the time my tongue doesn’t quite care if my food in-take has an N sign in it, (for nutritious! Smart eh? what ever).
Anyhoo.. yuhuuu… need to feed me.. feed me…
But all I have are prawns (with FULL head and all). I decided to buy those with heads this time, inspired by my lovely friend who said that prawn heads are the best things to eat in the whole wide world. Yes. We’ll see. Plus, they are cheaper to buy with head-on.
I usually don’t cook prawns by itself. I love to make a batter that would go with it, but at this moment, am trying not to consume too much deep fried food, So, I don’t think we are going to go there at the moment.
What else do I have.. hmm… celery! Celery for the hair! Heheh..It’s supposed to be for the hair.. you know, how celery and those with hair problems come hand in hand. The celery is supposed to help stop the hair from falling. MY head needs that. But, I used up the celery to make soup the other day. So what’s left is about 6 strands of them…
Since I need vegetable, but I need something scrumptious too (vegetable not scrumptious?), we’ll test my experimental cooking skills by…combining prawns and celery….
ta da! 
So, let’s get started!
First, cut up all of the necessary ingredients, cutting the celery, cutting some orange peppers and jalapeno peppers, AND clean the prawns.. but do NOT! butcher the heads. It’s supposed to give some flavour to the dish.
I am using 3 long stems of celery with leaves, 3 cloves of garlic, 500 grams of frozen prawns with head (did I say it’s got head?), 3 tbs of instant tom-yum paste, and 3 tbs of Bango sweet soya sauce. 
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Oh, and about 5 tbs of vegetable oil and 2 tbs of margarine or butter for the stir fry.
Cut the celery..
And the orange pepper (even though you feel like using it for table decoration..)
And also add one jalapeno peppers to kick the dish a little..
Do not forget to clean these babies.. free from their p**ps. Man.. they are lovely creatures.. too bad they are yummy for some other creatures!
Pour the oil into your bestest-ever-and-was-on-sale-at-canadian-tire Lagostina pan..I am using canola oil..
and the butter..or margarine.. (Butter gives it a stronger flavour).
.. and this is how it looks like together…melting away.. aren’t they lovely?
stir-fry all vegetable together until they are somewhat softer than raw..and then put the prawns in, tom yum sauce, soy sauce, and a little salt to taste. Stir fry everything in medium heat until the prawns are done. In general never cook seafood too long, they will harden and become chewier..
And this is the end product!
My husband did the dishes tonight.. I think he did it as an appreciation for me cooking this dish. He said it tastes like those chinese courses in the restaurants. I thought, hm.. honestly I have never eaten prawns and celery together before in my life. I don’t think they have it in the restaurants.. I’m afraid he was imagining things because he was very hungry.
So, there you go, you could make this quickly and it’s very good. Bon Appetite
PS: The prawn heads DO add flavor, and if you kind of suck some juice from its face (I know it sounds EWWWWW! But…), it taste really good, but when I crunched it with my teeth some sort of bloody substance came out from the other end which totally made me wanted to puke. So, I don’t think I would recommend eating the head. Just nicely eat the main body and gently separate its head far far away from the meat.
