šŸ§‘ā€šŸ³ Shrimp boil day at the house... So the question is: Your top 5 favorite shrimp dishes...

My all-time favorite shrimp dish is simply boiled.

When we were kids, our parents would take us to Panama City beach every summer for a week. And my dad would always get a 5lb bag of shrimp from a local place. He always brought a big pot with us so he could boil the shrimp. I don't know what spices he put in there, but it was always delicious. I seems like we did that maybe 10 years in a row. And ever since that first time, that's always been my favorite way to have shrimp.

I like friend shrimp, too. But not nearly as much as I like it boiled.
 
Brandon Van de Graaff said:
Mine...
  1. Stuffed with crab meat stuffing (think crab cake sorta), wrapped in bacon and grilled or sautƩed
  2. Fried with some kicked up cocktail sauce
  3. Boiled, seafood boil style
  4. Shrimp and grits
  5. In a pasta dish, preferably Cajun style
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1. cocktail.
2. Fried.
3. shrimp salad.
4. boiled.
5. Shrimp Scampi.

You may not believe this I have never eating Shrimp and Grits.
 
Lightly sautƩed with olive oil, capers, lemon, and parsley.
With bucatini pasta, anchovies, zucchini, tomatoes, garlic, and basil
I make a dish called fregola with seafood that has shrimp and clams.
Shrimp and grits

Every christmas eve I make a seafood stew that my grandmother in Sardinia taught me called Zuppa di pesce alla Sarda. Itā€™s a tomato broth soup with shrimp, red snapper, spiny lobster, clams, mussels, sea bass, and calamari. Itā€™s a tradition that weā€™ve had in my house for 20 years or so. Italian Americans have a Christmas tradition called ā€œfeast of the seven fishesā€ which is why we do it on Christmas Eve.
 
I guess I'll come across as a food snob here.

I have a hard time calling fried or boiled shrimp a "dish." It's like calling French Fries a dish. After all, all three can be served in a plastic container, some wax paper inside, and you're done.

I normally, predominantly, don't order fried food much less fried shrimp. (There's a place downtown called Hannibal's that serves both Gullah and Geechee...fried shrimp dish there? Man, their okra soup!!!) Even there, it's part of a meal. Not stand alone.

Same with boiled. While I'll use it a lot, it's always as a part of...
 
TerryP said:
I guess I'll come across as a food snob here.

I have a hard time calling fried or boiled shrimp a "dish." It's like calling French Fries a dish. After all, all three can be served in a plastic container, some wax paper inside, and you're done.

I normally, predominantly, don't order fried food much less fried shrimp. (There's a place downtown called Hannibal's that serves both Gullah and Geechee...fried shrimp dish there? Man, their okra soup!!!) Even there, it's part of a meal. Not stand alone.

Same with boiled. While I'll use it a lot, it's always as a part of...
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Nonsense. Fried shrimp and fried (extra crispy) oysters are delicious (when done right). Fried crawfish tails also.
 
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