Barcelona 3, Man United 1

London this weekend is full of football.  Even at Borough Market, we saw shoppers wearing their Barcelona scarves, and some in the shirts.  Bigger than the Super Bowl, they say.
Well, a big sporting event deserves its own special menu.  In honor of the underdog, Man United, I prepared an all-English supper on Friday night.  Two poached eggs from Old House Farm, Herefordshire,  Lincolnshire-grown asparagus, and some Charlotte potatoes.  The sauce is lemon butter.  Lemons and Lurpak butter from Waitrose.

But for our favorites, something more ambitious.  We found a recipe for chorizo and prawns on a Daily Mail web site -- any port in a storm; and adapted it as follows.
250 grams chorizo barbacoa from Brindisa
250 grams Tiger prawns (about 5) from Furness Fish Market (origin Madagascar), peeled
some sweet green pickled peppers from Brindisa
a couple of chopped shallots
a couple of chopped garlic cloves
olive oil
green peppercorns (an available alternative to red pepper flakes)
Madeira (in lieu of sherry) - about 3 ounces
red wine vinegar (in lieu of sherry vinegar) - 1 tsp
400 g canned plum tomatoes, chopped
crusty bread

Slice the chorizo into 1 cm slices, and sauté for 5 minutes or so in the olive oil.
Add the shallots, garlic, and prawns and sauté another 5 minutes.
Add the wine, tomatoes, vinegar, peppercorns, peppers, and sauté another 5 minutes.
Cut up some bread, and serve!

Drink a nice dry rosé from the southwest, sop up the liquid with the bread (St Johns brown loaf).  Cheer on the magical men from Barcelona, as they dance circles around the outclassed lads from Manchester.
The party lasted all night long, judging by the whoops and cheering we could hear from Bloomsbury Square, or at least until 3 am.