Vote for Your Favorite Recipe

The Great American Seafood cook off is well on its way at www.GreatAmericanSeafoodCookOff.com. There are so many yummy-looking recipes that are up for grabs, but I think that the best looking recipe is the one by Chef Mark Holly from Texas: the Texas Gulf Shrimp. This is the one that I voted for, and this is the recipe that I think I’ll make sometime soon, just to try it. Now, I know that I couldn’t get the plate to look as pretty as the one pictured on the website, but I do know that it will (hopefully) taste just as good as it sounds. It think this recipe is best mostly because I prefer shrimp over any other seafood, but I am sure that I would give the other recipes a taste-test too.

I also love the fact that this contest is promoting the use of domestic seafood. This is a really important issue, and I think that domestic seafood should be used more often. It is fresh, local, and tastes just as good as any other seafood that you can get around the world. So what are you waiting for? Go to the website and vote for your favorite recipe. Once you enter your vote, you will have a chance to win a prize package that includes a trip to New Orleans! I entered my vote, and hopefully I’ll be lucky enough to get that trip. If you don’t enter, you can’t win (my mother always told me that).

Amazing New Recipe Ideas

I know that I really don’t like to eat seafood that often, but when I do get that hankering for seafood, I always head for the fresh fish and pick up some shrimp. Shrimp salad is pretty much the best thing in the world, and I don’t make it that often. In fact, I usually let someone else do it so that I don’ mess it up (I really am a good cook, but sometimes…well…). What usually goes into my simple shrimp salad is shrimp (of course), a little bit of dill pickles, sweet onions, romaine lettuce, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. This is a basic shrimp salad recipe, but it tastes really good.

I have been thinking about how to change this up, and I was thinking about making a spicier version of this shrimp salad, maybe with peppers and stronger onions. And of course for my recipe I would only used domestic seafood. After all, that’s the best way to know where your food is coming from, and to get it fresh. I think that this recipe would taste amazing! I bet my new recipe could even be a contender for a Cook off. I think cook offs are really cool… not only do people get to have fun cooking, but new recipes are made in the process.

Do you have a favorite domestic seafood recipe that you would like to try? Go ahead and create something new. You never know… your recipe could be the next big hit.