Shrimp'n Noodles

So what happens when I'm home at 12 am on a (.....what the heck, I'll still consider it Saturday) Saturday evening? I get a craving for noodles! Then I remember that I'd bought all the ingredients for a shrimp and noodle dish a while back. Digging around, I find most of them had gone bad. However, noodles covered in shrimp sauteed in butter with garlic and onion still sounded good. I made up some fettuccine noodles, cut up the garlic and onion, then went on to detail the shrimp.

Wait.

Why do they still have legs? Should I pull them off? Isn't there a vein to cut out too? Yup, I decided to cook raw shrimp without knowing how....AFTER dirtying up my hands so that I couldn't look it up on the computer. xD

So, pulling off the tail, I realized that the rest of the body was still covered in shell. Peeling that off, I discovered that it took the legs with it! Yay! And under the legs....a poop-vein to deguttify. After a couple of those, I found a shrimp where the back had been cut open, but the vein hadn't been all the way removed. So THAT'S the vein that supposed to be gone; they did that part for me! However, still didn't want to eat the poop-vein. So I shelled and gutted all 1 lb (SO glad I only dumped out half the bag!) of shrimp. Back to the frying pan, I melted butter, started to sautee the onion and garlic, then dumped in way too much shrimp. And they lost all their water. I thought it'd boil off, but the longer they cooked, the more that came out! I didn't want to over cook them, though. So, I figured it would make an ok sauce, added some basil and garlic salt and called it good. Mixed in the noodles to warm them up, and served me some deliciousness.

I was pleasantly surprised at how flavorful the shrimp was! Usually I'm disappointed by it's lack of strength. The noodles were a little bland, but I expected that. I think I'll need to find a way to drain the water or thicken it all into a proper sauce. Prolly making less at a time in a bigger pan would help. :)

Shrimp is high in lean protein (did you know protein helped boost immune function?), phosphorus, copper, and iron. As well as vitamin D (which helps you absorb calcium and regulate calcium and phosphorus in the bloodstream), Vitamin B-12, and other B vitamins (they change your food into energy!).