The best tacos are shrimp tacos!

These tacos are delicious and not at all difficult to make. They will definitely be making another appearance in our rotation of meals, as the husband still talks about how good they were. I made them as more of a Baja-style taco, ’cause I loved the tacos at the greatly missed El Pelon and any way I can work more vegetables into what we eat is a-okay with me.

Along with the shrimp, I made some pickled cabbage, fried plantains, and corn on the cob. The pickled cabbage in particular is something I really enjoy, as the cabbage was still crisp, but had a great flavorful bite to it. I’m pretty sure I could have eaten this on it’s own, but that probably wouldn’t have made a good dinner.

The cabbage is being pickled in a mixture of a cup of rice vinegar, 2/3 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup water that was brought to a boil and then mixed into the cabbage along with a sprinkle of salt.

For the plantains, I sliced them kind of thick (maybe half an inch? .. actually, I’m not gonna lie, I don’t even know what half an inch looks like), then fried them in my cast iron pan until they started to brown. Then I took them out, salted them, and let them rest for a bit, and repeated the frying process again right before I was about to serve the tacos to crisp them up and warm them.

The shrimp were the easiest part, as I just tossed them with some spices (salt, pepper, cumin and cayenne pepper) and cooked them quickly in a pan. I figured they didn’t need to have overpowering flavor, since I had the cabbage and also some fresh salsa I picked up at the grocery store.

Once everything was ready (which, by the way, was a personal best of mine in getting everything to be ready at the same time – I almost always end up with something being just lukewarm by the time I’m ready to serve the meal), I set up a little taco assembly line complete with shrimp, cabbage, salsa, warm soft tortillas. And the end product? Such a perfect meal for a warm spring night:

Also, you guys? Why do people have such a hard time spelling shenanigans? It’s a word that’s bandied about occasionally by our group of friends (thus, the blog name) but for real, when I check how the stats on how people find our blog, I’m kind of amused/bewildered by the many variations of shenanigans that come up: shennanigans, shanagains, shannagians, and my personal favorite, shennanigin. The funniest part is that at least half of the misspellings came from our friends – I guess the important part is that they tried to find us?