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[alexseanchai]

Hokay SO. Cook the whole contents of the freezer time.

Inventory:
* fuckton of storebought entrees from the frozen section (pierogies, various Chinese things, and a stray Hot Pockets)
* mostly-full box of a dozen pancake sausages (you know corn dogs? that, only instead of hot dog and cornbread, it's sausage and pancake)
* ice cream and froyo
* bread products
* peas
* two 1lbish packages of ground beef
* one 1lbish package of ground chicken
* one package of 3? boneless skinless chicken breasts
* one 1lb package of raw shrimp
* one 1lb package of cooked shrimp

The things I am worried about are the beef, chicken, and shrimp. I suppose I could just brown up the beef and chicken (in three go-rounds, because the bigger of my two frying pans holds approximately one pound of browning ground meat) with a chopped onion apiece, and bake the chicken breasts with salt and pepper, and then container that all up and refrigerate it until it's cool enough to go back in the freezer, but that's boring. It's probably my plan, though.

I do not have the stuffs to make the thing I bought the shrimp to make. (Same thing, even though one of the shrimp bags is precooked and one is not. I meant to buy the raw shrimp the first time and didn't pay enough attention to the label.) And I do not know how to cook shrimp on its own for later use. (By way of example, the cooked-and-refrozen ground meats, I could thaw one container's worth, throw taco seasoning on, add salsa and greens and a tortilla, and call it dinner. I don't know what comparable thing I could do with shrimp.) And I have absolutely no idea if I can cook the already-cooked shrimp and have it still be edible afterward.

Comments

[madgastronomer]

The simplest good way to cook shrimp is to poach them. Boil a large pot of water with half a sliced onion (technically optional) and a couple of bay leaves, maybe some crab boil if you've got it. When it's at a rolling boil, add the shrimp. When it comes back to a boil and all of the shrimp look nice and pink, or white, whatever kinda shrimp you got, should be pink on the east coast, drain it the same way you do pasta. You know have cooked shrimp.

[alexseanchai]

What's crab boil?

Ooh, that sounds pretty good actually. Thanks!

[madgastronomer]

Spiced for the water you boil shellfish in. Old Bay Seasoning is a common brand.

[alexseanchai]

Oh! Okay.