Driving to work this morning, I heard Ryan Seacrest (on his radio show on KIIS FM) talking about how Killer Shrimp used to be his spot, and how the one in the Valley closed down. He asked if anyone knew if the one in Marina was still around. A caller phoned in and said that no, that one had shut down a couple of years ago, too, which is something I was fully aware of and lamented sorely about on here. As Ryan and the caller mourned the disappearance of the great Cajun shrimp restaurant, the caller said she’d heard that they’re about to open one in Chicago. Now I have two restaurants I would go back to Chicago for, Sanfratello’s Pizza and Killer Shrimp!
The coincidence about Ryan Seacrest’s topic is that I had, only last night, downloaded my RIP Killer Shrimp Dinner photos so that I could blog about it.

Diana and Eric came down for their first visit to our house a few weekends ago. I’d found a recipe that was supposed to be Killer Shrimp’s recipe for the bowl of shrimp in Cajun broth, unofficially. Since Diana had also known and loved Killer Shrimp, we decided to try out this recipe in honor of the late restaurant chain.
This is the French baguette bread (we got ours from Lee’s Sandwiches) that is sliced up and served in abundance with the shrimp, for use in scooping shrimp out of the broth and for dunking in broth.

These are the dried herbs that I crushed by hand with mortar and pestle.

Here’s me crushing away in a UCLA shirt, because three Bruins are eating this dinner that night.

This is the table all set for the Killer Shrimp dinner, with two roses from our garden.

Here’s a super-lame picture of me looking pleased as I stirred the broth in a cauldron almost taller than I am. The separate pot next to the big pot is some separated-out broth, Eric’s portion, cuz he doesn’t like his food as spicy as the rest of us like it. Eric’s portion is less “Cajun.”

College roommie Diana sitting down and getting ready to chow down!

Everyone agreed the dinner was a success and the flavor was very authentic. We just have to remember to double the amount of crushed red pepper next time.

RIP, Killer Shrimp! I hope the rumors of your resurrection in Chicago are true, and if so, I’ll see you there! If not, we’ll eat on like this in your memory.