Kitchen

Jen's Kitchen Tip: Bag O' Shrimp

posted Nov 15, 2007

Shrimp shows up on the menu fairly frequently in my house (stir-fry, kebab, soups, etc.), and I used to buy what I needed, the day I needed it, from the seafood counter.

But no more! Not since discovering the large bags of shrimp in the nearby freezer case. Now I keep a bag of shrimp in my freezer, always at the ready.

The shrimp is usually cheaper that way (especially if you watch for the $10 off sales), it thaws in a jiffy (I put them in a bowl and run room temp water on them for a few minutes), and they are even partially cleaned and deveined. I find that the quality is usually better, too, probably because they haven’t been sitting around in the seafood case for god-knows-how-long.

So there you have it. A little tip from me to you: Get yerself a big bag of frozen shrimp (if you like that kind of thing).

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