Shrimp!!

[Geezer]

I have a friend that runs the local pawn shop. After I got to know him, we were talking one day and he asked me if I liked shrimp. I sounded like Forest Gump's friend, Bubba, when I started saying how much I liked shrimp. As it turns out, my friend has a friend that delivers fresh Gulf Coast shrimp about every other week. All he does is make a list of what people want, calls the guy, he delivers in a couple of days. There are 2 sizes, Medium and Large. The price is $40 for 10 pounds of Medium and $50 for 10 pounds of Large. The shrimp are then deheaded and deveined which brings them down to about 8 pounds of shrimp.

I have bought Mediums only and they are about 20 count shrimp, very nice ones. I take them and put 24-25 shrimp in a freezer bag, fill the bag with water, freeze them. These are some of the best shrimp I've ever had. I have boiled them, grilled them, pan fried them, they always turn out great. Tomorrow evening we'll be having Shrimp n Grits.

 

[baboon]

I try a shrimp boil a few weeks back & screwed it up over cooking them. Good thing there were sausages, corn & potatoes in the boil.

Proof that pain killers & a few drinks are more then I need to be doing.

 

[Geezer]

I can boil shrimp and get them perfect every time. I also did a boil a couple of weeks ago and I got lucky. The taters, corn, and sausage were done and the shrimp wasn't overcooked.

 

[skfullgun]

Yum! Nothing better than fried shrimp.

Growing up, dad would get them much like you do. An igloo ice chest full and we would peel and de-vein all afternoon while mom was frying - shrimp, French fries, tater tots and homemade hush puppies!

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Fried shrimp is one of my favorites.
The best were at Kings Inn...

 

[Geezer]

I've gotten to where I like them boiled. Peel and eat with a little cocktail sauce. I've never met a shrimp I didn't like.

 

[Axxe55]

Every so often, the wife and I love to do steak and shrimp. Like @Geezer there isn't a way I don't like shrimp. But grilled over hardwood charcoal, is kind of my favorite though.

 

[Axxe55]

I don't know if it's still as cheap as it use to be, but some years ago, when I was married to ex-wife #2, we visited her parents in Pasadena twice a year. We would take two very large coolers with us and we would drive over to Kemah and buy fresh seafood coming straight off the boats. We mainly bought fresh fish and shrimp, and for a couple hundred dollars, both of those large coolers were packed to the brim!

 

[Texasjack]

Cajun woman once explained to me that shrimp don't take long to cook. If they're in a "C" shape, that means they're cooked. If they're in an "O" shape, that means they are over-cooked.

It's that simple.

 

[Axxe55]

Cajun woman once explained to me that shrimp don't take long to cook. If they're in a "C" shape, that means they're cooked. If they're in an "O" shape, that means they are over-cooked.

It's that simple.

I didn't know that one. Shrimp doesn't take very long to cook.

The method I learned and have used for years:







This is the trick: You want to keep an eye on the crevice in the back of the shrimp where the vein was removed. Stay locked onto the thickest part of the shrimp (the opposite end as the tail), and when the flesh at the base of that crevice turns from translucent to opaque, the shrimp is done. It's cooked through.

 

[AZ Refugee]

When I do a boil for the wife and I at home, I put the potatoes in first for 10 minutes, then add the sausage and corn for 10 more minutes, turn the burner off, add the shrimp and close the lid. The residual heat is plenty to cook the shrimp, but not overcook them.

 

[robertc1024]

That's great! We used to have a guy who would come up from the coast to our work every couple of weeks during the season with a couple of giant igloos filled with shrimp. Good eating. We had shrimp and grits Monday.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

Can't beat wild caught Texas Gulf Coast seafood.

When shrimp turn pink and curl they are done.

 

[dsgrey]

Throw them and some scallops in a veggie basket on the grill along with your favorite seasoning. After awhile, throw in onion, bell peppers, zucchini and some whole portabella mushrooms. Redneck one dish meal.

 

[striker55]

We rented a beach house on Galveston Island, I heard a bell ringing like an ice cream truck. It was a fresh shrimp truck. Biggest shrimp I ever saw, bought some for dinner, it was great.

 

[Geezer]

 

[innominate]

I like fried and boiled shrimp. But my other favorite is bbq shrimp from Pascal’s Manale in Nola. Butter, Cajun seasoning and Leidenheimer French bread to sop up what's left.

 

[Vaquero]

We rented a beach house on Galveston Island, I heard a bell ringing like an ice cream truck. It was a fresh shrimp truck. Biggest shrimp I ever saw, bought some for dinner, it was great.

Dang

 

[Grumps21]

I‘m hungry now

 

[Gulfport Joe]

You freeze them in water? Like fill the bag with water prior to freezing them?