Seafood dishes...?

Question

I want to make a nice, summer-y and somewhat simple meal with seafood for my boyfriend this Tuesday. Personally I'm not crazy about most seafood so I'm not familiar with much of it, but I do know he loves salmon, lobster, crab, scallops, shrimp, calamari, and whitefish. I'd like to do some kind of pasta or rice as a side dish, along with a vegetable (he likes almost any kind). I'm up for suggestions though :) Also, I was thinking a nice Pinot Grigio would go well.

Any suggestions would be great :)

Answer 1

Oh, my.

OK, if Pinot is the wine, let's work around that.

It would call to mind your basic Coquilles St. Jaques, which is to say scallops in a cheese sauce. (Forget the princess potatoes -an affectation).

But let's jazz it up a little, OK?

Get some BAY scallops (not Ocean or Sea scallops) and a jar of small oysters (cheap ones) and marinate those puppies in -guess what? Pinot Grigio, what else!? Mmmmmmm. Let them get drunk for 3 or 4 hrs or more. Make sure to include the liquor (juice) from the oysters. Just cover 'em with the wine.

After they've marinated, put 'em in a big sauce pan (with all the juice and wine) and simmer them (low-to-med high). Add 2 tblspns of Old Bay plus a couple of shakes of hot sauce and a tblspn of chopped garlic. Now add about 4 tblsspens of lemon juice, and the same amount of butter. Your driving me nutz!

Simmer it down to boil off about 1/2 the liquid. Now take 2-3 tblspns of flour in a separate container, add a bit of water and stir to make a thick but runny muck. Pour that in the sauce pan with scallops and oysters a bit at a time and stir it in to thicken. (You may not need all the flour and water mixture).

Now spinkle on about a half pack of shredded parmesan cheese, and stir it in, creating a thick but fluid sauce.

Separately, you've whipped up some Basmatic rice -maybe 2 cups of it, with peas and just a PINCH of curry powder! When the scallops and oyster mix is like a thick gravy, pour it over mounds of rice, garnish with sprigs of scallion, and call the minister cuz yer gettin' married!

Oh ...ceasar salad on the side.

What's your address? I'M comin' for dinner!

Answer 2

SWAM (Filipino Cuisine)

Ingredients:

1/2 K. large shrimps (5 to 7inches)
5 cloves of garlic (pounded)
1 white onion
5 in. ginger (cut)
leeks (cut in 3inches)
2c. chicken stock
1tbsp. fish sauce / or salt to taste
1/4 tsp. Black pepper powder

Procedure:

Prepare all the ingredients. Wash the shrimps without removeing the shell, only the whiskers. In a casserole, saute garlic, till light brown the add the ginger and then the onions, season with black pepper and fish sauce. Pour the chicken stock and when it starts to boil that's the time you put the shrimps and the leeks, cover the pot. Close the fire after a minute of boiling. Serve this with cooked rice. Easy but very delicious. God bless you.

Answer 3

This is a really good seafood salad, serve it cold (or room temp) as a side dish. You can also add small cooked shrimp.

12 oz. imitation crab meat
1/2 to 3/4 c. mayonnaise
2/3 c. celery
1 to 2 tsp minced onion
Pepper to taste
1 pound cooked ruffle pasta

Answer 4

try this hell love it for more recipes try here

http://tastefullysimple.com/web/dgoodacre

Balsamic & Basil Shrimp Pasta


Ingredients
1 Tbsp. olive oil
8 oz. peeled, deveined medium shrimp
2 Tbsp. Garlic Garlic™
1/4 cup Balsamic & Basil Dipping Oil
16 oz. prepared angel hair pasta

Directions
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium high heat; add shrimp. Cook about 1 minute on each side until shrimp begin to turn pink. Do not overcook. Add Garlic Garlic™; saute just until softened. Add Balsamic & Basil Dipping Oil; heat through. Remove from heat; toss with hot pasta. Serve immediately. Makes 3-4 servings.

Hopes this helps

Answer 5

It's quick ,simple and inexpensive. I love to make my own shrimp alfredo but I like to use the big fresh waters prawns, Ragu cheesy alfredo sauce season to taste with complete seasoning and as far as the noodle I don't think it really matters whatever you like.Me personally I like to use the Linguine or the noodles shaped like cute cork screws it just makes the dish more fun to for me.

1. Clean and boil shrimp until done (pink) usually take s about 5-8 mins. I like using fresh shrimp more so than frozen

2. Start noodles in separate pot add a pinch of salt and tea spoon of vegetable oil to water boiling im pretty sure you know how tender you like your noodles

3. Once shrimp and noodles are done drain them both.Combine shrimp with noodles and 2 teaspoons of butter an Ragu sauce stir and season to taste with Complete seasoning. Hope you like it just in case you needed some reassurance I was born and raised in Florida knows plenty of seafood dishes passed from family hit me if you would like more.

Answer 6

you can never go wrong with a simple shrimp alfredo.. Do not bother looking up the rec. just cook some pasta, throw in some alfredo sauce from the store, and mix in some nice fresh shrimp! Simple and good.

Answer 7

Something really easy, fast, and delicious is grilled shrimp.

Marinate your shrimp in Italian salad dressing over night, then put the shrimp on skewers, and then cook the shrimp out on the grill.

I know it sounds weird to use Italian salad dressing... but trust me... its delicious. And its super easy too!

Answer 8

grilled shrimp, slit them, slip a thin slice of jalapeno in each one then wrap them in small strips of bacon, grill till bacon is down but not crispy, apply light coat of barbcue. delish,but crab legs are great served with melted butter also with a wild rice for a side. all easy stuff.

Answer 9

make him a macoroni and shrimp salad. actually you can use tuna, lobster or any seafood. just cook up some elbow mac, drain it, add shrimp or whatever, hard boil about 4-5 eggs and slice them up in the salad, maybe some celery seed, mayo, and salt to taste, and sliced celery. serve it hot or cold. and man is it good!!!!

Answer 10

I'm from Louisiana and my mom won a contest with this casserole. Try it and impress him.

Buy 2 small tubes of Saffron (yellow) rice in the rice aisle (duh, right?) cook it according to package directions

add to the rice
1 pound of peeled, deveined, uncooked shrimp
1 can undrained chopped Rotel tomatoes
1 stick of butter
1 can of cream of mushroom soup

Bake at 350 for 35 minutes and enjoy!

I've never met a man who didn't like this recipe! Add a nice loaf of french bread and your wine and you have a Wonderful meal and a new favorite recipe; I promise. Have fun. (Wink!)