The word 'prawn' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of seafood - often a large shrimp - that can be cooked and eaten. Example sentence: I'm having prawn stir-fry for dinner tonight.
Save the heads for making stock if you wish. 2 Break open the soft shell along the underbelly of each prawn and peel it away from the flesh.
3 Run the tip of a small sharp knife along the back of the prawn and pull out the intestinal tract if dark and visible, but this is not always essential.
Top with four prawn halves in a horizontal line, and top these with a line of herb leaves.
But today the lead actor has eaten a dodgy prawn and daren't stray more than 10 yards from his bathroom.
But just when your guard is down, someone will eat a dodgy prawn or get stuck in traffic and your cosy routine flips over into pandemonium.
Pancakes also work well with, for instance, highly-spiced East Asian minced pork or prawn fillings (which is why the Vietnamese already have bánh xèo), but the number of scenarios where you can positively use a Western pancake in a savoury setting is tiny.
They start their rolls with a pile of noodles, but visually it's nicer to see some pink prawn and green herbs through the translucent wrapper.
Optimists see a supermarket prawn sandwich and think it looks delicious.
At 6.30am, as we drive between lagoons across Mandaitivu and Velanai islands, fishermen are dragging nets on foot or snorkelling to little prawn farms in the shallow water.
As he orders a prawn salad, he explains that, just as we're born with different eyes, hips and voices, we're also born with different brains.
Even if they do come in the shape of an oversized banana, pineapple, prawn and in one particularly stunning example, a long, dirt-coloured worm.
