Howard Stern Vs. Are You Being Served

So I remember my junior high friend Suzanne Heller recommended the PBS show Are You Being Served. I took a gamble. I watched an old British Sit-com and liked it. At the time, all I could recommend to her was The Howard Stern Show on 92.3 KRock. Embarassing! But now. Now I know why Howard Stern is great.
And Robin - she's great too.

spice box

An awesome person gave this to me.

dorkerie

Perfect game!

Deep Fried Cornmeal Crusted Shrimp over Spinach Apple Truffle Cheese Salad

Dinner tonight was something I dreamed up at the last minute using mostly stuff around the house, and took hardly any time to prepare (20 minutes). I had Jake purchase some fresh unfrozen Wild Gulf Shrimp from Whole Foods.

Cornmeal Mixture for Shrimp
. Cornmeal
. Paprika
. Salt

Spinach Salad
. grated Caciotta al Tartufo (truffle cheese. yeah, seriously. we have truffle cheese just sitting around in the fridge.)
. lemon juice
. cracked pepper
. diced apples
. spinach
. unfiltered olive oil
. truffle oil
. shallots
. salt
. fried garlic chips

Shrimp
. Never Frozen Fresh Wild Gulf Shrimp, peeled and de-veined

Oil
. thinly sliced garlic
. thinly sliced ginger
. mustard seeds

Heat oil to a temperature appropriate for deep frying (I tested this by throwing a few mustard seeds into the oil until they popped instantly). Once ready, add thinly sliced garlic, a little fresh ginger, and mustard seeds. In about 30 seconds, the oil should be ready to deep fry the shrimp.

Toss peeled, de-veined shrimp in Cornmeal mixture, coating shrimp with as much cornmeal as possible. Get some cornmeal in the slit where the vein used to be. Deep fry one by one for about 1 minute. For every 3 shrimp, I tossed in some more ginger and garlic slices.

Once you're done frying the shrimp, fish out the garlic and ginger chips from the oil. I used these to top the salad. The garlic chips were amazingly tasty, and ginger chips surprisingly snappy.

Toss the Salad ingredients together and top with shrimp, garlic chips, and ginger chips. Salt to taste. And add a fruit on the side (I chose a strawberry!).

and Voila!

Sorry there are no measurements for the ingredients - I just eyed it because I was in a rush because Jake beats me if dinner is late.

I'm really glad this turned out well, unlike the last Seat of My Pants Recipe Disaster.

Stupid cat photo

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20090415

Lunch at Blue Ribbon with Maggii
Walk around Chinatown
Go to Travel Agent with Maggii
Buy Chinese soap opera DVDs for Mom
Bump into Andy on Bowery
Get Future told by Chinese Astrologer
Gym
I've decided to make make my checklist after my day has completed.
100% success rate, you know?

20090409

Blog
Laundry
Pack for jim thorpe
Tune 2 bikes
Costco
Gym
Study for LSAT
Fix hole in Jake's shorts and replace button
Buy bike stuff for annie

20090401 No Fooling

Blog
Cheerios for Breakfast
Put together Metal Ikea Shoe Locker
Pay for Rotring Mechanical Pencil
Clip Buck and Butch's back nails **where are those clippers?**
Clean house
Bike to Manhattan
Study for LSAT in S'Nice
Buy white electrical tape at Home Depot to cover "IRO" on bike
Bicycle Habitat for Quick Release Skewers **too expensive**