Warm Prawn Cocktail

I can’t believe I am going to suggest that you keep some prawns or shrimp in the freezer, but worse things can happen than to have this favorite instant-food at hand. All I will say is to be sure to buy them fresh and freeze them yourself, since then you’ll know how fresh they were before freezing, and how long they have been in the freezer. And you can freeze them in their shells, which is infinitely preferable to shelled shrimp.

One morning at Ventana in Big Sur, feeling the strai