Now Saturday morning we were running short on supplies so Mrs F cast me ashore from the jolly boat and I went to see what was sale on the keyside.

Mr Sainsbury the local grocer sold me some shelled king prawns, bean shoots, fresh coriander, manzanilla sherry, onions, some limes, mushrooms and garlic so I stashed them away in my ditty bag with the essentials, (Kentucky bourbon £10 a bottle um nice, Peach Schnaps and a litre and a half of Soave)

Back aboard I opened a bottle of Fullers Honeydew to get me in the mood, lovely light golden bitter, and knocked up a marinade of a glass of the sherry about the same amount of soy sauce, juice of one lime (a good scorbutic don't want any shipmates getting scurvy!) a teaspoon of honey (I used a thick Greek honey that we have for breakfasts), two teaspoons of chopped ginger (I'd normally chop up a bit of fresh ginger but Mr Sainsbury is moving all his veg around to prevent shoppers from finding his treasure too easy, so I had to use the stuff from a jar) a teaspoon of Mr Naga's excellent hot chilli sauce (couldn't find the fresh chillis either, but I'd suggest two chopped fresh ones)and four chopped garlic cloves. Chucked the pack of shelled prawns into the pot and left them for about half an hour or so.

So on to the cooking, I fried one chopped onion with some garlic and Chinese five spice seasoning in some olive oil added a punnet of Cherry tomatoes that I found in the fridge, fried them until they went squishy and then squashed them nice and easy to extract the juice, then threw in the chopped mushrooms and let them cook down a bit too, adding their juice to the liquor, adding the coriander leaves as I stripped them from the stalks, then chucked in the prawns,marinade and the bean sprouts and cooked on a high heat for a few minutes to concentrate the flavour. I think the total cooking time end to end was about 15-20 minutes

I served this on basmati rice to soak up the rich tomatoey sauce with the chilled Soave

Soundtrack: Rob Zombie, the Ruts, Rod Stewart, the Misfits, Pop will Eat Itself, Muddy Waters, Cream, Daniele Dax, Motorhead, Sisters of Mercy and Roky Erikson