I decided one day that I had a hankerin’ for a tasty dish that Mom used to fix for me when I was a youngin’. Cheesey Shrimps over rice! Damn that sounds good. But the hitch is that she used Campbells Cheddar Cheese Soup. Which I haven’t had in at least 10 years. Mrs. Meathead kept sayin’ “You can’t make that for dinner, that’s not dinner that’s lunch.”
I said “No no. Mom served it as an entree. That makes it dinner in my book.”
However, it took me several weeks after I bought the stuff before I was willing to make it.
The ingredients, easy. The labor, simple. Three words: Boil, Heat, Eat!
Campbells is always looking to help out the busy homemaker, the college student on a limited budget, the bum in the alley.
Wow! I don’t remember it ever looking this remotely unappealing. Yellow goo. Bravely I forge onward.
Fortunately the shrimp is as tiny and wonderous as I ever remember it being. Hmmmm? I may have to get Moms shrimp shell pasta salad recipe next. Black olives, little gherkins and little shrimps whipped inside shells and mayo!!! Can you taste it?
Dear Shrimp,
Goodbye so soon?
Hehh hehh hehh? I boil you alive!
Not enough for you? No? How about I take a little somezing off zee top, eh?
Take THAT! You poor excuse for a starch.
Ladled over rice and accompanied by Mrs. Meatheads Cucumber Salad (that had marinated for 24 hours) we were ready to eat.
Well, the cuke salad was extraordinary.
But the shrimp goo? *sigh*
Ciao chow!
MeatHenge
"If it ain't pork, it ain't sausage"
The finest post to date! I’ll have to get my mom’s recipe for Teen Beenie Bake. It had hotdogs and beans covered with a cornbread top and like all great cuisine from MN, it was baked at 350 degrees for 1 hour. If I remember right, the cornbread had Lipton onion soup mix added. The whole thing creates enough gas to fill a zeppelin.
This post was fantastic! I didn’t even know you could buy shrimp in a can.
Ciao chow! ???? HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHH. That was awesome !!! Keep in mind people, that was Meathead that did all that hard work. And had to smell that cooking … hail to thee.
Hotdog soup! Make hotdog soup next!!!
Yay! Hotdogs!!!
Yay, you DIDN’T eat the shrimpy cheese goo!!! Whew, I got kinda worried there for a minute.
I’ll need that recipe Jebbers. For the hot dog soup.
Oh yes, we ate it! Yessiree. Indeedy.
I actually could stand to eat more of it than Mr. Meathead, who grew up with the stuff.
Next, Gramma’s burgers stewed in Cream of Mushroom.