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4th Annual Spot Prawn Festival

sweed — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:20:50 +0000

The Chefs’ Table Society of BC is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Spot Prawn Festival. Lasting for the duration of the season, the six to eight week Spot Prawn Festival will kick off on Saturday May 8th from 12pm – 3pm with a community and family-friendly event at False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf.

This rain or shine launch will feature delicious spot prawn dishes, spot prawn specials at the award-winning Go Fish, a gathering of Vancouver’s chef and restaurant community, and the arrival of the season’s first spot prawns as local fishermen return to the wharf with their catch. Get all the details after the jump…

Launch date: Saturday May 8th, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Duration: The Spot Prawn Festival will run for eight weeks
Buying times: After 1pm daily
Location: False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf | MAP

The annual Spot Prawn Festival will provide another local, fresh, and sustainable ingredient for our restaurant chefs and home cooks to enjoy. Those who take pride in serving the bounty of British Columbia can use this annual six-to-eight week window of opportunity to purchase live, locally sourced and sustainable spot prawns directly from our local fishermen at False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf and at participating restaurants serving local spot prawns. At $12 per pound for the public ($10 for Chefs’ Table members), they are an excellent and affordable alternative to the farmed tiger prawns.

This year the Spot Prawn Festival is proud to feature wine samples from Ganton & Larsen Prospect Winery, a kids play area from the Vancouver Aquarium Ocean Wise Program, a special guest speaker from the David Suzuki Foundation, and entertainment from local blues-rock band Terminal Station. As the Chefs’ Table Society is continuing to spread awareness for it’s latest cookbook Vancouver Cooks 2, festival goers can purchase books at the festival and have them signed by their favourite Vancouver chefs.

The festival creates a virtual ‘spot prawn frenzy’, as the event is growing bigger and better each year! Bringing energy and excitement down to the docks, attendees will flock to local fishermen at the wharf generating long line-ups for spot prawns bought fresh off the boats.

Local. Sustainable.

For further event information please visit:

www.chefstablesociety.ca

Poached BC Spot Prawn, Oyama Bacon, Maple, Granville Island Sake Condiment

sweed — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Raincity Grill’s Peter Robertson presents:

POACHED BC SPOT PRAWN, OYAMA BACON, MAPLE, GRANVILLE ISLAND SAKE CONDIMENT

Ingredients:
2kg spot prawns

Court bouillon:
4ltr water
2g peppercorns
2g coriander seeds
1 bay leaf
1 sprig thyme
1 lemon sliced
40g salt

For the condiment:
100g sake kasu
25g honey
25g mustard
25g mirin
25g sherry vinegar
500ml canola oil
200g Oyama bacon
100ml maple syrup
100g diced shallot
25g chopped chives

Method:

Bring the court bouillon to a boil and pour over the spot prawns, stand for 5 minutes, drain and shell the prawns.

Dice the bacon and sauté on a medium heat until evenly browned, drain off excess fat and add the syrup, continue to cook for a further 5 min, reserve.

Combine sake, honey, mirin, vinegar, mustard in blender, blend and add oil and emulsify, fold in bacon, shallots and chive.

Recipe courtesy of GranvilleIsland.com

Sustainability in prawns

sweed — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:00:48 +0000

In support of the BC Spot Prawn Industry we have a very good sustainable prawn fishery. Our product is much in demand as it positively addresses the concerns of sustainability in an often maligned seafood industry. The posts and pages on this site attempt to show all aspects of the world prawn/shrimp industry and how we as consumers are affected.

It is not as though we go out of our way to choose non-sustainable products. Largely it is a slick marketing scheme that shows the finished product much differently than its origin. Price often is a factor.

This Coffee House blog touches on sustainability and a link to a Prawn Consumer Guide.

The majority of prawn harvesting techniques and resulting available products that we find in local markets are less than acceptable to consumers today. Our spot prawn by trap fishery is recognized worldwide as an acceptable, recommended and responsible fishery that provides a high quality product.

BC Prawns are choice. Support our local industry.