I've made this quite often and may have blogged about this before, but seeing that I haven't written in a while, I thought I'd do this.  As usual, I went from memory and a borrowed a few ideas here and there, as well as trying some new things (like the shrimp).



For this recipe I used:

2 Tbs Butter
2 Tbs Olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
~1/2 cup vodka...I just poured
1 can crushed tomatoes
Some frozen salad shrimp (see pic below)
1 cup heavy cream
a few drops of hot sauce (vintage 2007 from a variety of hot peppers...I can't remember what they were.  But they were insanely hot. 

On a side note, I still have a sizeable amount of hot pepper "dust" which I made out of them.  I just now tried some and my mouth feels like I swallowed a lit match.

Salt
Pepper
and fresh Basil added at the very end. (lips now burning as I type this)

I hope that I didn't leave anything out.  I don't think that I did.



In a pan, I sauteed the onion until translucent in the butter and olive oil.  Then in went the vodka and that was left to simmer for a couple minutes to burn off the yummy alcohol  

Next went in the can of crushed tomatoes, some salt and pepper.  I let this go on very low heat (as Elizabeth was working on her garden and dinner would be about 45 minutes away apparently.  SO, once I saw that she was wrapping things up, in went the cream and the still frozen shrimp.  They were cooked, so they just needed to be brought up to eatable temp.  At this point, I also added some fresh basil that I had.  Tasted the sauce...added some more hot sauce and salt...and then it was......done! 

Actually a very easy recipe. Very few ingredients and tastes great.  The shrimp got a bit lost in the flavor of the sauce.  they added some nice texture, but really...fresh shrimp would have added a really great note to the dish.  Problem is, you really can't find fresh salad size shrimp, and I didn't want to deal with bigger ones.  Plus these were cheaper and I still have tons left in the freezer.

The burning sensation in my mouth is still there, but waning.  That's my queue to post the finishing photo.  Shown with some Parmesan shavings and Olive Oil and Rosemary bread from Wegmans.