Cook It and Eat It

Shrimp and grits rocks. Give it a try and see for yourself.

Parts List

• Shrimp - fresh gulf shrimp are obviously best, but sometimes you gotta work with what you can get.
• Grits
• Milk
• Water
• Minced garlic
• A big sweet onion
• Leaks or green onions
• White wine
• Heavy cream
• Andouille
• Butter
• Salt and pepper

Optional parts

• Some other vegetable(s) that you like (I've done it with seeded green and yellow squash and bell peppers)

Instructions:

• Peel the shrimp and put them in a bowl.
• Get the grits cooking.
  
  Grits work like this...1 part grits, 5 parts liquid. For shrimp and grits to be good, you need to cook these grits using milk. I usually do 1 cup grits, 3 cups whole milk, 2 cups water.
   
• Bring the liquid + some salt + some butter to a boil.
• Throw in the grits.
• Put a top on it and turn the heat to low.
• Stir that stuff every 5 minutes or so.

Now...

• Chop up the onions
• Chop up the leaks or green onions into smaller bits
• Cut up the andoullie. I sometimes remove the casings too. That's a total pain...
• Chop up the "Some other vegetable(s) that you like"
• Put some butter in a frying pan.
• Turn the heat to high.
• Throw in the garlic.
• When the garlic starts sizzling, throw in the onions (of all types).
• Cook those until they are translucent.
• Turn the heat down enough to keep your butter from burning, but not too much.
• Throw andoullie and the other vegetables
• When the vegetable stuff in the pan is cooked to a consistency that you like to eat, pour in some white wine -- enough to at least cover the bottom of the pan.
• If you didn't have any extra veggies, then just cook the stuff for 5 mins or so. 

   
  There are not a lot of spices, herbs, and what not in there. The andoullie has a bunch of that stuff in it and those flavors will leach out into everything else.

Now...

• Pour a little heavy cream in the grits, stir, and remove them from heat. It'll make them look brighter white.
• Put the shrimp in.
• Don't overcook the shrimp. They are done when they are pink.
• As soon as they are pink, pour in some heavy cream.
• The goo should thick up a bit with that cream in there.

Now...(Before the shrimp are overcooked)

• Put a couple of spoonfuls of grits on a plate.
• Put a couple of spoonfuls of the stuff in the pan on top of the grits.
• Eat stuff on plate.

There you have it. Nuff said.