[Sca-cooks] a newly done recipe
Kathleen A Roberts
karobert at unm.edu
Mon Nov 30 10:03:17 PST 2009
now i am sure i have been getting in touch with my inner
roman a bit too much lately. so...
yesterday, dear heart heard paula deen (white noise) say
something about shrimp, brown sugar and black pepper. i
think it was two different combos, but i wasn't paying
that much attention.
says he: "hey, that sounds good"
says me: "well, there's a recipe in apicius that uses
shellfish, honey and black pepper. do you want me to try
it?" (when will i ever learn?)
later that evening, a bag of frozen shrimp appears in the
Albertson's basket.
says me: "i guess you want shrimpies tonite?"
says he: "why don't you try that brown sugar thing?"
says me: "just for the heck of it, why don't i try that
apicius thing?" (still not learning)
says he: "yeah, try it on a few, and do the others with
old bay." (smart boy... don't ruin them all)
so there i was in the kitchen with a list of ingredients
from vehling and my cupboards having spilled forth, and
the shrimpies nicely thawed, and the seat of my pants
ready...
into a pan i put in this order:
olive oil
garlic and onions, finely minced (no shallots on hand)
red wine vinegar
cream sherry (no passum or raisin wine)
shrimp (8 of them, no langoustine)
i let that cook until said shrimpies were about half
cooked and then added
honey
black pepper (metric buttload)
black and yellow mustard seeds
salt
i finished the cooking of the shrimp, let the sauce reduce
and then tossed in a bit of parsley left over from
turk-zilla (no lovage... probably could have minced some
celery leaves but didn't think of that then).
adjusted the flavors and gave it to the guinea pig (who
might i add, walked into this one on his own)
he loved it, i loved it, incredibly good and approachable
flavors.
he wiped the pan with a piece of bread, and it is now on
the midwinter proposal being written, as part of appetizer
course.
it was not unlike a sweet, not too garlicy, scampi with
some bite from the mustard seed and pepper.
YEA!!!! SUCCESS at figuring out a list of ingredients.
still doing the happy (and yummy) dance.
cailte
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Kathleen Roberts
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University of New Mexico
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