Shrimp/6 recipes

San Francisco seafood casserole bakes mussels, shrimp, and white fish in a tomato-wine-clam juice broth. A streamlined cioppino in casserole form, ready in under an hour.

Creamy Italian shrimp risotto built on a homemade saffron shrimp-shell stock with oyster mushrooms, zucchini, white wine, and Parmesan. The extra step of making stock from the shells is what sets this apart.

Individual Thai-style pizzas with peanut sauce, Monterey Jack, bean sprouts, shrimp, and green onion on Italian bread shells. A Thai-Italian fusion appetizer in 30 minutes.

Fish and shrimp in sweet and sour sauce with pineapple, ginger, and soy, served over homemade coconut rice. A complete seafood dinner with bright Asian-inspired flavors.

Warm rice and barley salad with shrimp, butter-toasted almonds, raisins, and a Dijon vinaigrette. A hearty grain salad cooked entirely in the microwave and served on lettuce.

Thai tom yum shrimp soup with lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, and enoki mushrooms in a hot-sour broth. Fragrant, spicy, and ready in 30 minutes.

Szechuan shrimp stir-fried in peanut oil with garlic, fresh ginger, and green onions, tossed in a spicy-sweet sauce of chili sauce, ketchup, soy sauce, and dry sherry. Faster than takeout at just 25 minutes.

Thai duck curry (kaeng pet) simmered in coconut milk with a handmade curry paste of dried chilies, lemongrass, shrimp paste, and coriander seeds. Rich, aromatic, and deeply spiced.

This delicious dish is quick and easy to make, and it's perfect for lunch or supper.

Seafood paella simmers quick-cooking brown rice with saffron, sweet red peppers, and garlic, then finishes with shrimp, green peas, and steamed-open mussels. A faster, one-pan take on the Spanish classic.

Nothing is more fascinating and delicious than eating at the open- air street hawker centers in Asia, particularly in Singapore. Each stall serves a specialty, typically an honest, unpretentious, home-style dish for $1 to $3 a plate. This rice noodle dish is hawker food at its best. If done right, its fragrance will tell you how good it's going to be as soon as it arrives at your table.

Shrimp scampi sauteed in butter with garlic, lemon juice, and a hit of Tabasco. Five minutes from pan to plate over angel hair pasta or rice. The classic Italian-American restaurant dish made faster than takeout.

Creamy Italian seafood risotto with shrimp, scallops, shiitake mushrooms, and Roma tomatoes. Arborio rice slow-stirred with chicken broth and white wine until silky.

Indonesian curried crab simmers cracked whole crab in a rich coconut curry built on a fresh-ground paste of galangal, lemongrass, chili and candlenuts, balanced with sour tamarind. Fragrant, fiery, gloriously messy.

Microwave seafood paella with shrimp, mussels, and orange roughy over tomato rice. Ready in about 25 minutes of microwave time with no stovetop or oven required.

Caribbean shrimp and black bean salad tossed in a salsa-honey vinaigrette with celery, red onion, and cilantro. A no-cook, make-ahead summer salad ready after a two-hour chill to let the flavors marry.