Shrimp the New Tuna

It used to be that all cooks had a can of tuna around for emergency meals or to get fish in the diet once a week.

My experience was that tuna over toast was a regular growing up. I kind of drew the line on this when my creative mom decided to make it green for St. Pat's day.

Tuna dishes given way to the shrimp meal.

Tonight we had a shrimp meal. Starting with frozen 31-35 sized shrimp from costco, I let them thaw appropriately with a couple of changes of cool water. I dropped in a little olive oil and some butter, a couple shredded cloves of garlic, and some very dry sherry. As it heated up I chopped up some of dad's famous tomatoes and used a paper towel to soak up the juice. A half a fresh lemon went in just before the shrimp. Using a little bigger shrimp (the last of the previous package) we each had 8. I upped the shrimp to 10 (still a few too few) for each of us and sauteed them in the liquid. When they were done, I dropped in the chopped tomato and it was done!

The rice cooker was making the rice. The microwave was having a go at the small artichokes. It was a pretty good dinner out of just a little bit of nothing. That was what creamed tuna on toast was in my day.

For my part I will take the shrimp any day!