Growing up, I hated eating shrimp. In fact, I tended to avoid eating seafood of any kind. This is probably because my family’s go-to seafood dishes consisted of tuna noodle casserole and salmon patties.
If you grew up in the 80s, you feel my pain!
My first memory of shrimp involves a cold shrimp cocktail with spicy cocktail sauce – which I mistakenly thought was ketchup. Not the best introduction.
It wasn’t until I began working in a restaurant kitchen while in college that I discovered how delicious shrimp could actually be – when cooked properly. Continue reading