Monday: Headaches and shrimp

I almost didn't make anything fancier than "ham sandwich" for dinner, because I've had a headache going pretty much all day long.  Woo.

I also decided to use my real camera, just to give a comparison to someone else.  Admittedly, my camera is nowhere near that fancy cool, and I also should have checked the white balance a lot more.

Ok, 0.68 pounds of 26-30 shrimp.  That should be 18-20 shrimp right?

Nope, 22.  Take mean = 28, standard deviation = 2, this suggests my package of shrimp is something like two standard deviations off, so my shrimp are more deviant than 0.977 of all such packages.  I'm not sure exactly what confidence interval I should complain at.  The main problem with getting too many shrimp is that I have to peal and gut the damn things.  Turns out I always forget how much I hate doing that.

Anyway, shrimp, with my salad accompanyments on the side.  I simply fried the shrimp in a pan with some bacon grease, after first sprinkling them with salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper.  Plated:

Or with the cell phone camera:

Maybe I don't have a white balance problem.  The plate should be white, but the counter really is about that yellow.  I don't know.  I could have taken a picture on my lanai to be a direct comparison, by it was dark by the time I started dinner, so it wouldn't have quite had the same natural light.

I can maybe win on the "eating local" aspect of things.  Sliced Maui onion, Big Island roma tomatoes, local sprouts, Manoa lettuce dressed with dijon and local honey. The shrimp aren't local, but they did have local salt on them.  Plus a chunk of baguette and a gob of butter. Nice and tasty, although I should have done something to temper the onion.  The flavors blended nicely, with the honey offsetting the spice of the cayenne.  

Tomorrow should be the same, as I bagged up the leftover shrimp.  I figure a quick jog through the oven should perk them up.