Culinary Wizardry

Fruit of the Vine - Culinary Wizardry
Here There Be Goblins

Date:	2013-01-24 22:51
Subject:	Culinary Wizardry
Security:	Public
Location:	Witchnest Manor
Mood:	cheerful
Tags:	food, hobgoblin

I usually eat pretty simply, when I’m cooking just for myself, but every now and then I come up with something marvelous.

Actually, this was incredibly simple too, but OMG YUM!

I bought this salt-cooking-tile thing a while back, and made salmon on it, which was marvelous. The salt-cooking-tile thing package showed a picture of shrimp; I thought that might work.

I bought some large frozen shrimp, raw, with their tails on. Which, I cannot stand that. Really, people: we’re not going to eat the tails. Can we just TAKE THEM OFF?

I realized that, Yes, I can. It’s just for me. Who’s going to object?

So I peeled off the tails, and then crushed some peppercorns in the mortar-and-pestle, and then found some saffron in the spice drawer that ought to be used up, and crushed that in there too. Rolled the shrimp in the pepper-and-saffron, thusly:

And proceeded to cook them on the salt-tile, in a very hot oven, for a very few minutes.

OH MY GOD you guys…this is my new favorite thing. Simple as can be. Salty and peppery and saffron-y. Succulent and perfect. YUM!

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In other news, I made nearly 3,000 words of forward progress on Hobgoblin, by virtue of cut-and-paste, several scenes from the previous version only needed a bit of editing and interstitial writing to work here. So that feels good. I’ve gotten the plot to the everything-follows-from-here point, at not quite 12,000 words in; that feels appropriate.

More tomorrow!

Originally published at Shannon Page. You can comment here or there.

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User:	martianmooncrab
Date:	2013-01-25 06:31 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

does the salt block take on flavors of what you cook one time and pass them onto the next?

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User:	calendula_witch
Date:	2013-01-26 06:35 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)
Keyword:	Soup and Bread

I'm not exactly sure. I assume probably, a bit; because I've only done salmon and shrimp on it, it's hard to tell. I should try chicken breast or something else bland and see if I can detect any trace.

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User:	msconduct
Date:	2013-01-25 07:08 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

Oo, is that one of those Himalayan salt block thingys? I've never seen one actually in action. It's so pretty!

I'm baffled by the shrimp tails too. I guess it's because some shrimp dishes require you to swoop the shrimp through sauce, but really. Forks, people? And it's not all that easy to peel the tails off, either!

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User:	calendula_witch
Date:	2013-01-26 06:37 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)
Keyword:	Soup and Bread

Yes, Himalayan salt! Which I love--I've been using the small-ground stuff as table salt for a while now. Yummy!

I know there are people who eat the tails (see below!). But they've GOT to be the minority. Because, yech.

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User:	msconduct
Date:	2013-01-26 11:42 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

I have actually eaten at a Thai place in Las Vegas called Lotus of Siam (supposedly the best Thai in the US, no idea if that's true but it was very good) and had a dish of theirs that features prawns with their shells on and you eat the entire shell. Sounds awful I know, but they deep fry them (I think) and the shells are deliciously crispy.

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User:	calendula_witch
Date:	2013-01-27 06:47 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)
Keyword:	Scorpion

I have, it's true, eaten shrimp shells before. But, bleh. Too much like eating plastic.

I guess if you deep fry them well enough, that would work. :-)

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User:	klwilliams
Date:	2013-01-25 21:55 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

That sounds fabulously yummy. (And Chaz eats the tails.)

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User:	calendula_witch
Date:	2013-01-26 06:38 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)
Keyword:	Iris

Of course he would. My ex-husband would eat them too. That doesn't mean they're edible, you know. ;-) People raised in strange places will eat strange things.

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User:	fledgist
Date:	2013-01-26 02:17 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

Those look very tasty. Please digitise them and send them here. Thank you.

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User:	calendula_witch
Date:	2013-01-26 06:38 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)
Keyword:	Soup and Bread

You're welcome! Not sure how they will translate exactly. :-) But they're so easy, you can make them yourself. :-)

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User:	fledgist
Date:	2013-01-26 14:11 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

I know. It looks really easy. That salt tile's the only thing I'm missing. Where did you get it?

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User:	calendula_witch
Date:	2013-01-27 06:49 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)
Keyword:	Soup and Bread

At a kitchen store in town here; actually it's a division of Powell's (the bookstore); they have a "home & garden" branch and there they were and I thought, Oh, I must have that!

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