5 minute freewrite Thursday prompt shrimp with lemon sauce
This is my post for #freewriters Thursday prompt shrimp with lemon sauce hosted by @mariannewest
A couple of years ago something happened in the river that we had never seen happen before, and my husband has been fishing for 55 years. We both grew up on the river and had never heard of it.
White shrimp were so thick in the InterCoastal Waterway, we call it the channel, that you could cast net them. Some of the go-getters were catching over a hundred pounds a day. I was only interested in catching what I could freeze for my use and what I could give to family and friends.
One day when I came in with shrimp a woman who always takes pictures of me came up to me. She always wants to take pictures of my catch and saw my shrimp. I could tell that she wished she had some but she was not going to ask. I asked her if she wanted some of them, she was so happy. There was a guy with her and he tried to pay me for them but I would not take the money. When I got in my truck to leave, I found 20 dollars sitting on the seat.
I gave her a small bag of them and showed her how, if you twist the head most of the time the vien will come out as you take the head off. It is just one less step in cleaning them.
Some people like shrimp with lemon sauce, some rather have them fried, me, I would rather have them boiled and dipped in cocktail sauce.
I have one batch of them left in the freezer but I think they have gotten too old and might be freezer burnt so we will use them for bait. I hate that this happened but they will not go to waste.
One of the practices of gratitude is to see the value in everything even when it is not exactly what we had in mind... I see you are doing just that!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you @deeanndmathews I hope your Thanksgiving was good, we were to go to my daughters, since I cooked 2 turkeys Monday, and she said she would cook. She had been to the doctor and he said she had a sinus infection. She called yesterday and said the doctor called and said she has covid, so we ended up staying home and eating some of the turkey that I had cooked earlier.
Oh, wow ... I'm sorry that you missed dinner, but I'm glad you missed Covid for the holidays!
Me, too. Now my granddaughter is not feeling well, so I am really glad that we did not go.
!BEER
I love eating shrimp. On;y way I do not eat them is when they are cold. My favourite way to eat them as we portuguese make it we call the dish Camarao Mozambique. Spicy and warm and just delicious. This is how our Portuguese family made them when I was growing up.
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