Mexican Entree
SHRIMP IN GARLIC BUTTER
INGREDIENTS
4 garlic cloves
6 tablespoons butter
¼ cup lime juice
1½ pounds jumbo shrimp peeled, deveined
4 small flour tortillas
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro (optional)
Serves 4. Takes 20 minutes.
PREPARATION
Mince garlic. Add butter to pan. Melt using low heat. Add garlic. Sauté on medium heat for 5 minutes. Stir frequently. Stop if garlic starts to brown. Add lime juice and shrimp. Sauté at medium heat for 3 minutes on each side or until shrimp turns pinkish-orange. Stir frequently. Warm tortillas in microwave or in pan on stove. Put shrimp in a serving bowl and tortillas on a serving plate. Let guests add shrimp to tortillas and garnish with cilantro as they wish.
TIDBITS
1) The ascent of life One-billion years ago: Viruses appear.
2) 900 million years ago (MYA): Taco trucks arrive. They serve wonderful food.
3) 800 MYA: Taco trucks disappear. Viruses, while great fans of all Mexican food, simply cannot eat much. It takes trillions and trillions of viruses to eat one taco. And viruses simply cannot carry enough cash with them. And they’re sightless and cannot even find a taco truck even if one were to bite them on the nose. Which viruses don’t have. One wonders how taco truck owners managed to find the financial backing to last through 100 millions years of disappointing sales.
4) 63 MYA + 1: Taco trucks reappear. The food is, as always, fantastic. Carnivorous dinosaurs love them. Taco vendors work out a barter agreement with them.
5) 63 MYA: Taco trucks disappear along with the dinosaurs and most of life on Earth. Giant meteors slamming into Earth, always a bad thing.
6) 1788: Taco trucks reappear in Paris, France. King Louis XVI loves their food.
7) 1793: Louis XVI is beheaded. Taco trucks disappear. The French Revolution has many excesses.
8) 1880s: Taco trucks arrive in San Antonio, Texas. We are living in a golden age.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef
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