Nothing is more redneck than cooking with beer. Well, maybe cooking with beer and pork rinds. Ya’ll will have to wait for that one another day.
Anyhoo. Cooking with beer may channel your inner mullet but believe me…there is no rule out there that says you must advertise your redneck-ish-ness-ality. In short, make others think you are only a pink-neck. Here’s how:
Beer Shrimp – getcha shrimp, thyme, garlic, an onion (or if you are shmancy – a scallion), some beer, some butta, some seasoning mix, and some red pepper.
Heat your oven to 475 degrees. Peel your shrimp.
Gotta de-poop em.
Also known as deveining.
Chop one onion.
Scrape the little leaves off some of those thyme stems.
Put your shrimp in a bread pan. Sounds weird. Administer 20 shakes of seasoning mix. Do 10 shakes of cayenne pepper. Throw your thyme and onion on top. We just stack…it’s easy. It doesn’t require fancy kitchen tools.
Press a whole thingie of garlic. Throw that in too.
Pour a quarter of the beer in. One third if you ain’t thirsty. Chop half a stick of butter and throw it on top. If you like a lot of butter, then put the whole thing in. Not that I would know but it is freaking delishiousness this way…like heaven in your mouth.
Put it in the oven. Stir occasionly. While you wait, prepare your sides. I chose these cheese tortellini. Just in case the butter didn’t adhere directly to my thighs…I like to have a backup plan. Plus they have shrimpie shapes.
Pull out your shrimp when they are no longer see-through or raw looking. Usually 15 minutes.
Pour into a bowl. Garnish with a little thyme…because nobody has enough these days. **chuckle**
Plate it with a couple slices of bread for dipping. I even like to dip the pasta. Yessiree bob, I would swim in that butter beer stuff. Serves two grown rednecks.
Delishiosieness. That should be a word. It perfectly describes this. This beautiful Refined Redneck meal 🙂 Enjoy ya’ll.
that sounds so good. I think I will pick up some shrimp this weekend and try it out.
Oh my Katie! I will be making this soon, the husband will love forever over this one.
Wow that looks awesome. I love tortellini and shrimp. what a great recipe!
That shrimp sounds amazingly good. I think I will buy it already deveined though to avoid the dry heaving.
Mmm, almost makes me want to eat shrimp … ALMOST.
Mmmmm, I can’t wait to try this out! Any cooking with beer will definitely impress the hubby. =) Thanks for the great post!
This looks great- and way to beautiful for “red neck.”
My mouth is watering. This sounds mmm mmm good!
this looks awesome! I wonder how it would be served over linguine or angel hair pasta? I can’t wait to try this!
de poop- hahahaha!! i love it! i always say that!! FABULOUS!!!!!!!!
that looks yum-adam would love it!
Sounds amazing… I might even have to make it tonight. My husbands a yankee, but he loves shirmp and he LOVES beer, especially Uncle Sam. Where do you get these receipes?!
I made this the other night and it was amazing!! I even used Olivio instead of butter to make it healthier and it was still good. Yum, I’m salivating thinking about it right now. I had some frozen tortellini I hadn’t used and it was perfect. MMmmMM
Sounds yummy! How much shrimp do you use? About a pound?
Yup! About a pound 🙂
xo – kb