While the cat's away the mice will play...

Wendie is out of town.  This of course has its upsides and downsides.  I am all by myself.  There are no dogs to lay with or a conversation buddy.  The dishes don't do themselves.  I get to do whatever I want.  Stay up late, get up whenever, listen to my music, watch my T.V. and eat what I want.  Let's just focus on that last little bit, the eating part.

All the fixings for a meal

I love me some food.  There are like a handful of meals that I just can't eat on a regular basis and that in itself really emphasizes their special place in my heart. 

Wendie is allergic to a shellfish. 

It makes for a cheap date, but there never is that special splurge on crab, lobster, shrimp or any sort of bivalve.  So really, unless it is fish, we don't eat seafood ever.  This means that when I am by myself I go out and grab as much shrimp as possible (it is always frozen and so it's season runs all year).  Then my inner Forrest Gump comes out and all of a sudden there is shrimp gumbo, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp on the barbie...you get the idea.

Homebrew and cooking, the perfect combo

Last night began the affair.  I am a black bean man.  Pintos are fine, but give me black beans and it's hook line and sinker.  I make them in a way that they are flavorful and fulfilling and could really be a main course, not just an accompaniment.  Roasted garlic salsa is one of those flavors that have you questioning that flavor in the background.  What is it.  I can't place it.  Roasted garlic is the stuff.  Then add in the sauteed peppers, onion, mushroom and corn hash and you have yourself a vegetarian heaven!


But I am not a vege no mas!  I want shrimp!  Out come the most delectable shrimps ever to be frozen and served to you for an excellent value.  Kirkland 20-25 tail on, peeled, ingredients: Shrimp, salt.  With shells is preferred, but I get these when I just want to eat good shrimp without the fuss.  They are the best and have zero added crap to "retain moisture".  That is why God created salt.  Same priciple, sans chemistry degree and an asshole mentality to try and poison us while overfishing the worlds oceans.  But I digress...

The rice should not be burned while you are playing with your camera trying to take pictures of this awesome meal that only you will eat and therefore have zero proof of it's greatness, so pictures will solve all of that.  Don't burn the rice.  You have to remake it and that is just silly.

The final assembly.  "Showing" a burrito as more than a tortilla

To make a long story short, I cooked rice, beans, hash and finished with the shrimps and rolled it all into a burrito.  I love you shrimp burrito...mmmmmmm.  I made sure to have enough shrimp that I can throw together a portable egg, hashbrown and shrimp breakfast burrito on my way to work.  Hardcore tasty.  Now on to making Shrimp gumbo...