Shrimp Po Boy with Hand Cut Steak Fries

Lance and Jeremy are back in the kitchen together.  We began tonight's adventure as we always do with a trip to Publix, where shopping is a pleasure.  We got our essentials, and returned to Lance's place to prepare this amazing dish.  It's been over 6 months since the two of us got together in the kitchen, but it was well worth the wait.  We learned tonight that both of us have grown tremendously as cooks.  Lance has exquisite knife skills and tastes everything as he prepares.  It was like poetry.  I would say it almost flowed like a professional kitchen.  So tonight's menu was shrimp po boy with hand cut steak fries.  Here it is folks.  Enjoy.

Shrimp Po Boy and Hand Cut Steak Fries

You will need:

- About 6 large potatoes

- 2 lemons

- 4 cloves of fresh garlic

- 1 shallot

- 2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley

- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper

- ¾ cup mayonnaise

- 1 tablespoon of your favorite hot sauce

- 2 tablespoons of yellow mustard

- 1 head of romaine lettuce

- 2 large tomatoes

- 1lb fresh shrimp (we used local never frozen)

- 1 stick of butter

- Vegetable oil

- Fresh baked hoagie rolls

Sandwich Prep

- Slice the two tomatoes and then slice those slices in half (half moon style)

- Wash the lettuce and prepare about 4 leafs

- Slice your hoagies sub sandwich style, like they do after they ask you what bread you want at subway

- Make some delicious Remoulade

Remoulade (Do this before you start cooking)

- Chop that shallot really fine and put it in a bowl

- Finely chop that fresh parsley and scoop 2 tablespoons into the same bowl

- Add ½ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper to that bowl
- Add ¾ cup mayonnaise to that bowl
- Add 2 tablespoons Plain mustard to the bowl
- Add 1 tablespoon of your favorite hot sauce to the bowl
- Add juice of ½ lemon to the bowl

- Mix it all up

- Put it in the fridge

Shrimp, Scampi style (We recommend starting the shrimp after the first batch of fries are done)

- Begin by deveining and shelling your shrimp. 

- Get a large skillet.  In that skillet begin melting one stick of salted butter on medium high heat. 

- While your butter is melting, finely chop 4 cloves of fresh garlic. 

- Now add the garlic to the butter. 

- Slice in half one of the lemons and squeeze the juice into the skillet.

- Add the shrimp to the skillet

- Cook on each side for about 4 minutes

Steak Fries (We recommend making fries about 10 minutes before you start cooking the shrimp)

- Then slice your potatoes long ways. 

- Then, divide those long halves in to 4 long pieces. 

- As you slice your potatoes put them in a large bowl of cold water. Doing this will prevent browning.

- Now, get a medium sauce pot going with vegetable oil about half way full.  Turn that on medium heat. 

- Put about 6-8 fries in the pot at each time for about 8 minutes.  Cook longer for crispness desired.

- Place the fries on a plate lined with paper towels and season with garlic salt, or whatever you like.

Sandwich Assembly

We started with a generous portion of remoulade on the hoagie.  Follow that with a leaf of romaine.  Next, add the shrimp.  Following the shrimp add the tomatoes.  If you loved the sauce as much as we did, then add some more sauce on top of the shrimp.  Enjoy it.  We sure did.