Cooking these days

I usually prefer to have a one dish meal. The other day I dirtied 2 pans by having Azuki beans and Jasmine Rice.
But then a friend offered to shop for me, and I asked for some frozen shrimp.
Yes, I've been trying to be a vegetarian. But I wanted seafood. I usually don't make a fuss about being dedicated to vegetarianism.

Anyway, she brought me a bag of nice big raw shrimp...the only strange thing I noticed was that they were pink already as if they'd been cooked.  Maybe they had some kind of flash steaming effect before being frozen. They could have had some dye added, though it wasn't included in ingredients.

The other weird thing I found, though they were headless, they still had tails and legs, and had been split down the back with the veins removed.
So I steamed mine, then pulled off shells and legs. Much easier than my usual way of cleaning them.

And I had decided to make an Alfredo sauce, to use up some old parmesan cheese, and I even bought sour cream, thinking that was what was in it also. Come to find out, it was supposed to be real cream or at least half and half. I don't know that I've ever made it actually.

So I boiled my angel hair pasta, and stirred some milk, and chopped garlic, and salt and pepper, and butter and the cheese over a low heat. But the milk mixture was too thin, so I added a bit of corn starch (mixed separately in a little container), which gave it the right consistency. Then at the last minute I stirred in two tablespoons of sour cream...I know it doesn't like to cook, just warm up before serving.

And the shrimp were so big they weren't totally cooked after a 10 minute steam, so I popped them back over hot water and gave them another 5 minutes steam, and they were just right.

I have another dinner of Alfredo and Angel hair, and enough shrimp for several meals, since I only had 6 that evening.  It was OH SO GOOD.

Today's quote:

The difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.

DANIEL BERRIGAN