Day 60 - Hardly Any Prep Shrimp Stir-Fry

Recipe from Jamie's Food Revolution

Whoooooooo!!!! It's day 60!!!

Which is pretty darn awesome!!!

Now, if you're like me, and if you're like me you're cool, and even if you're not like me, you're cool, you probably liked my Gandolf post from yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed it because Gandolf is pretty cool, although Lord of the Rings is like my brother, Sam's, movie series since he watches it with all his friends.

The thing that I like to watch with my friends is Star Wars and Talladega Nights which I am watching with friends Saturday.

Anyway, I made Hardly Any Prep Shrimp Stir-Fry, which you can tell from the title. And in Star Wars they should eat shrimp stir-fry because Jedi's need to keep their energy up, you know, so they can use their minds and the force and their light sabors to fight Sith.

Back to the stir fry. As you might have guessed, there was not very much prep. You just cut up some cilantro stalks, 2 cloves of garlic, and ginger.

Chopping Ginger

You add it to a hot wok with oil. Along with it, you put some shrimp in. You let that cook then add a mixture of five spice powder, soy sauce (gluten free, of course), sesame oil, and let that cook. While that's cooking, you cook rice noodles.

When it's all done you drain the noodles, then put them in your bowl and top them with the shrimp stuff.

I'm thinking of some Gandolf type of thing for tomorrow's post. I do know what I'm going to write about but I'm disinclined to acquiesce to any requests about tomorrow's topic. That's from Pirates of the Caribbean, by the way.

1 5/9 THUMBS UP

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Day 24 - Shrimp and Avocado with Old School Marie Rose Sauce

Cookbook - Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

I, Jared, am back from the lake house and back in the kitchen.

I'm baaaacccckkkk

When I cook, it feels pretty cool. It's fun. It's entertaining and you can do so many different things so that you never get bored.

For me, a kid who has celiac disease, it's quite interesting to see how you can make something like this, for instance, that has a coating of flour and it tastes really good with gluten free flour. It's good to see all the different kinds of things that can be made so much healthier, and sometimes even easier.

So far, doing this challenge has opened up different opportunities in cooking for me and has let me experience new things. That's important because I'm out of my comfort zone, which was gluten free chinese and mexican food. I've tried something new almost everyday since we started (which is more than 3 weeks now), and that's quite good for building character (says Calvin's dad to Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes).

Before this challenge I doubt I would have eaten this Shrimp and Avocado food if my mother had made it because I just don't try a lot of new things a lot. It's kind of weird since I'm doing this challenge, but now I'm kind of forced to try new things since I want to try what I made. It's kind of a win-lose situation (because I don't really like to try new things), but if I like what I try then it's a win-win situation.

So far there have been more win-win situations.

Today I made some Shrimp and Avocado with Old School Marie Rose Sauce. I had never heard of this dish or the sauce before.

Squeezing lime

It was really good! I think I put too much ketchup in the sauce, but I really liked the avocado and the shrimp. You just coat some shrimp in some GF flour and cook and toss it (which I just learned how to do this morning--or I knew how to do but never tried).

Flipping, part 1

Flipping, part 2

You cut the avocado in half and take it out of the skin. Then you put some mayonnaise, ketchup, Worchestire sauce, but we didn't have whiskey, so we by-passed that, together and mix it up. That's the sauce.

Then when the shrimp are golden brown, you plate it (which I learned from Iron Chef) by putting the avocado and shrimp on a plate, then sprinkle paprika on the shrimp and put the Marie Rose sauce on the avocado.

Voila!

That's it.

I give it 1 3/4 THUMBS UP. My mom, of course, gives it 5 THUMBS UP.

So, until next time...