Sole And Shrimp Recipe

When my daughters were little we lived for a time in a beautiful old building high on top of one of San Francisco's famous hills. My brother, my Aunt Cele and Uncle Warde, and my young family had apartments there. Often, we all ate together and since I was hungry to learn my way around the kitchen, I watched all my aunt’s moves — she was a wonderful, simple, and stylish cook. Cele marketed every day; I think she liked the social aspect of her errands. She would pull on her gloves, a smart coat, and with a quick wave to my uncle, off she’d skip down Washington Street’s steep hill to Polk Street to buy what she needed for dinner that evening. If we were lucky it would be petrale sole and bay shrimp — simple and stylish. Now I live on the East Coast so I cook grey sole and the smallest shrimp I can find to relive the flavor of those fun family meals.— CH Click here to see Shrimp Recipes for Any Day of the Week Adapted from "Canal House Cooking Volume No. 5" by Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer.