6/27/2012 Shrimp Boil

(Rehoboth Beach, DE)

Since cousin Ronnie has been so generous with his grilling skills we decided to host dinner here tonight and have a shrimp boil.

While everyone was at the beach today I went to the grocery store to get the shrimp, red potatoes, corn on the cob, mussels and onions. When I got home I chopped, sliced and diced so that everything would be ready later in the day to cook. I couldn’t do the beach a second day in a row so I used the day to get caught up on laundry and did odds and ends around the house.

Everyone present, food cooked, table set, we sat to chow down on a shrimp boil.

Melissa wanted to try the mussels but was unsure if this was something she really wanted to do.

I know this because she spent a long time just looking at on the end of her fork.

It took some coaxing from her dad but she finally let it pass her lips.

Wanna guess if she liked it or not? I think this next pic tells the answer.

I think it may have even brought a tear to her eye.

To be fair, Melissa should probably try mussels again. Yeah, like that’s gonna happen! You see, I cooked them and the recipe called for white wine which I didn’t have. I had to make a substitution and rather than try to substitute the flavor of the wine I based my substitution on color. As in clear. Like water. Yep, instead of a cup of wine I used water. Hey, it was clear and it started with a W! I could tell from the look on Ronnie’s face when he tried them that the mussels left a lot to be desired. I mean it all but screamed, “Geez, these mussels suck!” So Melissa, try them again when someone else makes them.

No sunset this evening. I mean there was one, I just didn’t see it.