SPICY SHRIMPIES.

I'm currently crunching on some cinnamon Puffins (tm, I'm sure).


Wtf is a puffin you ask? It's a bird, Fratercula arctica is one example. And at the zoo, they can't land in the water for shit. It's really fun to watch.

It's also a brand of cereal found in the "health food" section of the grocery store. I'm not sure why other than the cereal aisle is jam packed with no room between the frosted flakes and the fruit gushers*. They do have less fat? Maybe? Eh whatevs, they're like not diabetes inducing cinnamon toast crunch so I like them.

Pretty much recovered from surgery (yay!) I can now lift things and stretch with very few muscle spasms.

Do you eat the tails of shrimp? I never used to, in fact I thought you couldn't eat them until college when Emperor Nghiem informed me I'm an idiot.** So now, sometimes I do... it's crunchy. Other people eat them routinely. What's my point? Wellllll you can shell or not shell the shrimp for this recipe. With shells makes a slightly more shrimpy tasting sauce.

Also, much like "mouse-creams"(aka ice cream), "shrimpies" is my sister DPO's word. We love shrimpies particularly grilled on wooden sticks. That's right, we're pirates and we adore skewered anything. Especially your livers!

Spicy Shrimpies
serves 2
10-15 smallish shrimp (uncooked)
1 Tbspn sesame oil
1/4 cup clam juice (or water)
2 Tbspns korean red pepper paste
3 large cloves garlic grated
1 inch piece of ginger grated (reserve as much juice as you can)
1/4 cup diced onion
1/2 tsp sesame seeds (optional)
1 tsp chopped scallion (green onion, chives or whatever green onion-like thing you want)

1. heat the oil and onion in saute pan on medium-low

2. when onion is softened add garlic, ginger and red pepper paste - stir around and don't let it burn

3. add clam juice (or water) stir up anything stuck to bottom of pan

4. add shrimp cook about 2-4 minutes or until the shrimp curl up and are no longer translucent (grayish colored)

5. serve over rice with sesame seeds and some sprinklings of green onion (or scallion or chives)


*Much like my abhorrence for the word "smothered" - nothing you eat should ever gush

**he was right and I daily cringe at how ignorant I was/am