Can anything GOOD be done with those frozen precooked shrimp from the supermarket?

[Richard Steele]

I'm currently staying with some friends who aren't exactly "foodies",
to say the least.
(These are full-grown adults who have never owned a CUTTING BOARD! :wow:)


Anyway, when they first agreed to let me crash here for the winter,
I volunteered my services as cook. The house "grocery shopper" asked
me a few questions about what items I'd like on the "wish list" area
of the grocery list (the "wish list" is stuff we can only afford if
it's on sale)

I mentioned shrimp...and the grocer shopper, not knowing any better,
bought a FREEZER FULL of those frozen pre-cooked shrimp rings when
he saw them at $2 apiece.

To be fair: even as crappy as this shrimp is, that was still
a hell of a good price.

But I'm running out of things to try to make this stuff edible.
Thawed and eaten as intended, they're bland. I've tried thawing
them in a marinade- limited success. Frying, they fall apart into mush.

The only DECENT result so far has been when I sauteed some in garlic butter
and used the resultant shrimp/butter mush to season a big bowl of rice
to accompany a heavily-ginger-based chicken stir-fry...that was pretty darned tasty.

But I can't make that every night, and I've got a dozen more suppers' worth
of this shrimp to work through.

Any recipes (or even vague notions) y'all might have will be very well recieved, Itellyawhut!

Richard