best way to cook shrimp?

for dinner tonight, i'm making my boyfriend london broil, shrimp, wild rice, and asparagus. i have everything covered except for the shrimp. what is the best way to prepare it? i was thinking a little butter and garlic?

Little butter and garlic sounds great.  Shrimp will absorb whatever flavor you put on it so go lightly.  It is best to peel the shrimp before cooking.  If it is raw cook only until it is pink, do not over cook.  Shrimp cooks up very quickly.

Shrimp is just as good raw, but in my opinion a real treat would be grilled shrimp kebabs along with grilled veggies - low cal, too. Good luck, and I hope you and your boyfriend have a nice Valentine's Day :)

I love to saute my shrimp in olive oil and garlic. Healthier than butter, and wonderfully tasty!

steamed with old bay - can't go wrong!

muttlover, I think you may be confusing boiled fresh shrimp that has been chilled or frozen with raw shrimp.  Raw shrimp is only served in sashimi restaurants (and a lot still don't serve shrimp raw) because there are so many dangers to eating raw shrimp due to pathogens/bacteria carried in the shells. 

I agree that grilling with olive oil and garlic would be delicious...

...besides, grey food - yuck!

if you want to avoid adding fat, you can steam, grill, or broil shrimp.  if it's fresh, it will have plenty of flavour without the fat.