It's BC Spot Prawn Season! yay!
The season lasts from May to June and after seeing friends' Spot Prawn pics posted on FB I had a yearning too. I sent the man down to T&T supermarket where they were on sale for $15.99/lb until May 18.
The Spot Prawns were lively in their plastic bag. These guys have pokey antennae and sharp spear-like tails and heads. You have to buy the Spot Prawns with the intent to eat them within a few hours. I kept them in the fridge for an hour before I was ready to prep them. I am squeamish and even with rubber dish gloves to protect me from their sharp pointy bits, I couldn't handle how each prawn would squirm and hop out of my hand. In the end, I held a prawn with tongs in my left hand and worked the scissors in my other hand. It gave me the willies...but I was not deterred enough to stop because I knew these prawns had to be cooked quickly to maintain their freshness. After they die, the prawn flesh becomes mushy...bleh...inedible. When cooked fresh, they have a firm 'n bouncy texture and they're sweet and juicy. They do not require much fuss in terms of cooking.
