Celebrating

We are so happy to be at home again; no planes, trains or automobiles today.  Well, we did take a short trip out in one of the last mentioned to purchase some necessities. I have really missed not being able to cook this week, so I decided to make up for it today and create some new dishes.  I concocted honey toasts topped with grilled goat's cheese and confit of onion to start (pic).  For the main, I took giant prawns, which I de-headed, de-tailed, de-veined and butterflied.  Then I set the prawn flesh aside and made fish stock with the debris (along with onion, vegetable stock, white wine and fines herbes).  Then I fried some finely chopped chorizo, added the prawns and, when they were cooked pink, poured in some more white wine, the reduced fish stock and baby broad beans (pre-boiled for 5 mins).  All finished off with a liberal amount of creme fraiche and served with boiled spaghetti (see extra).  Linguine would have been be better, but I didn't have any.  Served with a very cold white Gaillac, L'Infini.  Oh, life is so fine and it's so good to be home.