Good, suprisingly easy dinner I made
 

I am home alone tonight, and I was really hungry. We happen to have a bag of frozen shrimp in the freezer. I ended up with a really good dinner in 30 minutes.

Ingredients:
Frozen Shrimp- as many as you want to eat
Fresh salsa from the refrigerated section of the store
Rice- I used the boil-in-bag kind. Comes out great, takes 10 min.

Procedure- immediately put the shrimp in a bowl of cold water. This will defrost them lickety split. Boil water and put the rice in there.

The shrimp will be defrosted by now. If the shrimp isn't deshelled already, pull those shells off, and dig out the black stripes on each side. They call it the vein. Then put the shrimp on some paper towels and pat them dry. You want them dry, so they don't steam.

Wait until the rice is finished, cause you won't want to be messing with that once the shrimp goes on (the shrimp only takes about 2 min, so the rice will stay hot).

If you have a wok, use it. If not, a pan should do fine. Put some oil on the bottom. Put the heat on HIGH. You want this to be hot hot hot. Once you seen a wisp or two of smoke, toss those shrimp on there. Use two spatulas, or a spatula and a spoon to toss them around constantly. They will change color really fast. About 1 minute will do. Now, toss the fresh salsa in there. Toss, toss, toss, toss about 1 min. Put this onto a plate. Put the rice next to it.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

Sounds great, but boil-in-the-bag rice? Good god, man!

Get yourself some nice CalRose (Hinode or other good qualiy California rice)

Bring 2 cups of water to boil. Add 1 cup rice. Cover, turn heat to LOW and you have PERFECT sticky rice in 20 minutes.

Ok- Now I feel bad :p

I'll give this a shot.

what he said. Life is too short for crappy rice. I'd also cut back on the salsa and instead toss in any fresh veggies of your choice. Or even frozen veggies.

I usually pass on the salsa and do a red wine reduction in the wok. It is really easy...just dump in a bunch of wine and boil it down. Add some rooster sauce, garlic, any other spices, then toss in the veggies (depending on what they are...cook times vary), then the shimp. I like it over the rice rather than next to it.

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