The Shrimp Boat

Wouldn’t it be fun to work on a Shrimp boat?

• You wake up early in the morning, wear your swim suit, slap some sun screen and head out to the sea.
• You go deep into the sea and cast nets.
• Then grab a book and spend all day reading, surrounded by the sea and the seagulls.
• In the evening, you gather all the shrimp and head out home.
• At home, someone asks you, “What’s for dinner?”
• And you say, “Shrimp honey!” Because you know you can never run out of shrimp recipes. You can cook shrimp for a year without ever repeating the recipe.

Yes I know I am over-simplifying this. But it is my fantasy and I am sticking to it.

Spring

In autumn I gathered all my sorrows and burried them in my garden.

And when Spring cameto wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers.

And my neighbors came to behold them and said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us the seeds of these flowers that we may have in our own garden?"

Khalil Gibran

Pascal Manale

Pascal Manale in New Orleans is famous for their barbecue shrimp. What is interesting about this is that the shrimp is actually pan fried. Not barbecued. And they are served head-on to enhance the flavor.

Barbecue Shrimp

Note: Not really for someone who is on a diet.





2 pounds fresh shrimp (heads on)
1 cup and 2 tbs. butter
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp thyme
3 tbsp freshly grater garlic
1 1/2 tbsp. course black pepper
1 tbsp Creole seasoning
1 tsp Paprika
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 lemons squeezed
1 lemon sliced
Tabasco sauce to taste
Coarse salt to taste
Chopped parsley

• Heat a large cast iron pan (oven proof) and add butter and olive oil.
• Add garlic, black pepper, Tabasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce, thyme and Creole seasoning.
  
• Simmer for a couple of minutes.
• Add the shrimp and salt and then stir for 30 seconds.
• Pour lemon juice over the shrimp.
• Chill for a couple of hours.
• Heat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Place the shrimp in the oven for 10 minutes.
• Sprinkle with chopped parsley.
  
• Serve immediately with hot French bread.
  

Mozzarella Sticks


I thought everything was only bigger in Texas. They have huge mozzarella sticks there also. Yummy!

Say what?

If you work in a corporation, you must attend meetings. Here are some random office space quotes collected by my writer pals. Needless to say, none of us work at these places anymore.

• The light at the end of the tunnel was actually an oncoming train.
• The best way to resist temptation is to completely give in.
• It was customer’s love fest.
• We are pimping the fruit to India.
• My push back radar is on high alert.
• This is an assumption of an assumption.
• It fails ugly ugly.
• We are all doomed.
• Decisions made here are fluid in nature.
• We are going to open the kimono and share a peek
  

Anything interesting you've heard at meetings?

Bangle boy

The bangle boy works with father in Delhi. School is not an option for him. Instead, he learns to make bangles and sells them.

Awful

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness.

Khalil Gibran
Sand and Foam