Cooking! Baking! Creating!

While I am waiting for some bread dough to rise, I might as well blog!!!

Tonight I made a really good recipe for shrimp that involved bacon wrapped barbeque shrimp. I found it on allrecipes.com. I did not follow it 100% but here is what I did.

I thawed out some frozen shrimp (31 size, 3 lb. bag) and then coated it with a spicy southwest rub (they called for dry bbq rub). While I did this, I pre-cooked a package of bacon for 3 minutes in the microwave so that, once in the oven, the shrimp and bacon would cook in the same amount of time. Once the shrimp sat for a few minutes, I cut the bacon slices in half and wrapped each shrimp with it and secured the bacon with a toothpick. I placed the shrimp on a baking rack on a cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil (made clean-up super easy) and baked them for 10-15 minutes at 450 degrees.

I have to confess that I did not wrap the entire bag of shrimp. It took way too long for a week night meal. If I was making them for a party, no problem, wrap them all! What I did instead was throw the bacon in a skillet and cook it for a few minutes and then added the shrimp and sauted it until the bacon was done. Then I added 1/4 cup of water and put a lid on the pan and let the shrimp finish cooking (until totally pink about 2 minutes). I served the shrimp with risotto (flavored with garlic salt and dry dill) and corn. The kids all loved the shrimp!

I would make this again but I would do it in the skillet and forget the wrapping!