Seafood Dinner - Shrimp (or as the Brits say, Prawns)

By unpopular request, rather than just post a picture of my cuisine, I will actually give qualitative information surrounding the meal.

Shrimp and Soy Bean Salad with Cherry Tomato Vinaigrette

This is a melange of shrimp, frozen edamame, cherry tomatoes, thick cut bacon, served on a bed of arugula. Another Tyler Florence recipe that I adapted for low-carb lifestyles. The recipe originally called for canned cannellini beans (white beans). By using edamame, you can cut the carbs lended by the beans in half and add 50% more protein. I used Fitday.com for the calculation. Fitday is a great site if you are trying to track your eating habits throughout the day. I've been using it for years I also used arugula rather than watercress because...I couldn't find watercress at the grocery and I didn't want to ask.

Some tasting notes...I used thick-cut bacon that was "all-natural" (see: without nitrates). According to wikipedia, a nitrate is a salt of nitric acid with an ion composed of one nitrogen and three oxygen atoms. Apparently, consuming large amounts has been known to cause "blue baby syndrome". I don't want to put anything in my body that has the same effect as Willy Wonka's Three-Course Dinner gum. Ask Violet Beauregard.

I paired it with the universal wine pairing, dry sparkling wine. I think I used a Spanish Cava that I got for under $10.

I wouldn't use arugula again because I feel like the pepperyness can overpower the subtle sage and shrimp flavors.

The hardest part of this was using the recipe that I got from the British version of the cookbook. Here are some excerpts..."Preheat oven to 180 degrees C," "450g raw king prawns", "4 slices of bacon cut into 1cm pieces".

Metric system...what the fuck.