Shrimp Po' Boy

Ingredients:
60-70 Peeled Shrimp (if you're smart you get the deveined and tail off kind... not me... LOL)
Zatarain's Fish Fri
Oil
Bread - usually a hard hoagie type of bread
Mayo
Tomato, sliced
Shredded Lettuce


First off... if you use the shrimp you have in your freezer and it happens to have the tails still on it, thaw them in some cool water and pull the tails off. If you are smart enough to have the non tailed kind in your freezer just thaw those bad boys out!


Slap a plate full of Fish Fri. Add a few shrimp.


Toss them around with your fingers till they are nicely coated. Shake off any extra.

Set shrimp aside until it's all battered because the next step goes pretty fast!

Get that oil nice and hot. Toss in enough shrimp for one nice bubbling layer.

Yeah baby... pull those bad boys out once they are nice and golden brown.

Pull that bread out, slice it. Add the mayo, tomato, lettuce and a big pile of shrimp.

Pulled BBQ Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients:
1 cup BBQ sauce
1 large onion largely chopped
3lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts

Put chicken in bottom of crock pot. Add onion on top. Do not mix.

Pour BBQ sauce over chicken and onion.

Cook in crock pot on high for 5 hours. After 5 hours shred chicken with two forks.

Serve on buns... was great with fries.

Chicken Salad

Now mind you, I've never made or tasted Chicken Salad. I didn't know what to expect. But since I've started to eat a little mayo here and there I thought I'd give it a shot. To me... it was great... but it made too much for just me and Jerome so I shared a bit with coworkers!

Ingredients:
1 whole cut up fryer, cooked either boiled, baked or I suppose fried (or just use one of those precooked chickens from the grocery store like I did!)
1/2 cup Mayonnaise
1/2 cup Sour Cream
Salt
2 Tbsp. Brown Sugar
Pepper
2 Tbsp. Lemon Juice
2-3 stalks of Celery
3 Green Onions
2-3 cups Grapes

Slice grapes in half... unless you have unusually large grapes like I did and that case I just sliced them.
Chop your celery. Note to self, Jerome complained about the size of mine - apparently I have to make it invisible for him.

Don't forget to chop the onions too...

I let the precooked chicken cool before handling it a bit - basically while I was gathering ingredients, rinsing the fruits and veggies, even when I was prepping the "sauce". Then I cut the chicken up into bite size pieces. I placed the chicken, grapes, onions, and celery in a bowl and gave it a quick toss.

In a separate bowl I mixed the mayonnaise, sour cream, brown sugar, lemon juice, salt and pepper together. You need to get it to the right taste... so you may need to add more sour cream if it's to sweet for you or more brown sugar if it's not sweet enough. All in your taste buds... or in my case... my husband's taste buds.

Once the "sauce" has the right taste to you and your family pour it on top of the chicken, veggie and fruit mixture and mix until everything is nice and coated.

You can eat this straight out of the bowl like crab or potato salad or do what we did the first night and make it the main course by toasting two pieces of wheat bread, add a few pieces of bacon and call it a night. YUM!