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Fond Eating Memories From this (Now COME BACK HOME) East Coaster… for the rest of you!

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EASY EAST COAST SEA FOOD DELUXE DINNER

(NOTE: This is the First couple of recipes..AND  the next favorite dish follows on the NEXT posting)

 Together my baby sister and I recalled many former East Coast growing up family favorites, when, in our youth, we grew in Virginia Beach.

Here are a couple of SUPER EASY but DELUXE grill or under oven broiler “real seafood deal” recipes.

DISHES: broiled shrimp, broiled lumpfin crab, hushpuppies and /or rolls, garden salad, baked potato, homemade cocktail sauce, ice tea, fresh fruit with whipped cream for desert

TODAY: I share simply the SHRIMP and COCKTAIL SAUCE;

On the next posting,I’ll share the LUMB FIN CRAB MEAT.

NEEDED:

Bamboo or metal skewers for cooking the shrimp

2-3 or more pounds,head free, shelled, deveined, washed shrimp; AIM for the freshest or frozen, largest best quality fresh shrimp you can find.

Old Bay Seasoning

Melted Real Butter

Homemade Cocktail Sauce (see below) or store bought

Idaho baking potatoes (best if washed, sprayed with PAM Kitchen spray or butter, then wrapped in aluminum foil) baked on grill or in baking oven

Good quality hushpuppy corn meal based mix (follow directions on the mix)

 

FIRST: BROILED SHRIMP
For cooking out on the ;grill or inside under the oven broiler

Melt a 1/2-2/3 whole stick of butter in the microwave
Add to this 2-4 tablespoons of Old Bay Seafood Seasoning (taste test to see what YOU prefer)

Make sure to shell ,devein each shrimp and wash it before placing each one on a skewer to cook.

Put the shrimp skewers on a sheet of aluminum foil so that the basting won’t come off.

Place each of the shrimp skewers on the foil and baste with the butter, Old Bay mixture, Place on barbecue grill or in oven, under broiler, but keep an eye on these for as soon as they turn pink, they will be mostly likely DONE.

Keep basting the shrimp skewers with the butter, Old Bay Mix, to ensure that they do not dry out and the seasoning mix adheres. USUALLY cooks about 8-10 minutes if they are put in preheated oven or a already prepared, grill.

View from Nag’s Head Fishing Pier, picture taken by T’s Young Son

SERVE WITH HOME MADE COCKTAIL SAUCE:

3/4 C chili sauce (Family option: omit this and use simply all the other ingredients to taste; I prefer to omit the chili sauce, personally!)

3/4 C catsup

3 TBL lemon juice

3 TBL Worcestershire sauce

1 TBL prepared horseradish (ad more to make even more spicey)

A few drops of Tabasco sauce (to taste)

1/2 TSP salt

2-3 TSP finely grated onion

COMBINE ALL INGREDIENTS IN NICE SERVING BOWL.

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