God Hates Shrimp

Tuesday 16 September

In response to the hateful "God Hates Gays" websites, someone created the nice God Hates Shrimp website.
This recipe has nothing to do with that. We just think its funny.

We went, off-schedule, to the Farmers' Market today, with a mighty big cravin' (note the apostrophe) for corn. Scored five ears.
Back home, we took an inventory: a couple of red peppers, a red onion, some shrimp in the freezer . . . a vision began to form: a hot cold shrimp-corn salad.

So: mix 1 TBSP chili powder
1 TBSP coriander
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp oregano (the Mexican holy quadrinity* and by the way, you do realize that all the amounts are totally bogus . . . I mean roughly approximate).

Make a paste with some olive oil and toss in a lb. (pronounced /lub/) of shrimps.
Let marinate while you

Boil the corns. 5 minutes, cuz it's September.
Put into cold water.
Cut all the kernels off, and save 2 1/2 cobs worth plus the cob scrapings for cornbread which you've just realized would be a nice thing to bring to the potluck on Saturday.
Put the other corns into a nice bowl.

Cut 2 red peppers into little squares.

Cut the half stick of celery you've got in the little bag you kept it in from the last time you needed some celery but not that much. (Justification? Peppers and celery and onions make the Cajun trinity.)

Ditto the 1/4 of a red onion in the same little bag you kept it in . . .

Now: sauté the celery, then the red pepper, then the red onion until just a little softened, not too much.
Toss on top of the corns.

Sauté the marinaded shrimps. Toss on top of the peppers on top of the corns.
Deglaze the pan with the juice of an incredibly seed lemon, only after finding out that you have no lemon juicer, so just strain it through your fingers, you big baby, and pray you have no paper cuts.

Mix all together.

HOLY FROG, this is good!

Made a merde-load and we went back for seconds on the vedge.

*Not yet in the OED . . . what gives?