Kung Pao Shrimp, WOW!

This common dish, which originated in the Szechuan/Sichuan province of China, has some variations, with the biggest variation being in the main ingredient, which is usually chicken. I'm not quite certain, but the use of shrimp "may" be a development by Chinese-Americans in the restaurant business?  

Ingredients:

1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 tablespoon thinly sliced fresh ginger
1/2 cup green pepper, cut into bite size pieces
1/2 cup red bell pepper, cut into bite size pieces
5 dried red chilies, stems removed
1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns 
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional, the sauce, below, will have soy sauce, which has salt)
2 to 3 tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons roughly chopped cashews or peanuts
4 green onions, chopped, including part of the green

Sauce:
4 tablespoons soy sauce
3 tablespoons orange juice
2 teaspoons cornstarch + 3 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar

In a small sauce pan, over medium heat, add the soy sauce, orange juice, sesame oil, rice vinegar, sugar; simmer about 1 minute. Mix the water and cornstarch well, then gradually stir it into the sauce, maintaining the heat so that the sauce bubbles, until the sauce thickens, set aside. If you have a wok, put on the Aerosmith song, "Wok This Way" (okay, I know it's "Walk this Way"); otherwise, use a skillet, heat the canola oil over medium high heat. Add the ginger, the chilies and the peppercorns, cook for about 30 seconds, constantly stirring (stir fry). Add the two types of bell pepper and two of the chopped green onions, cook 1 minute, always stirring. Add the shrimp, cook until about cooked through, then stir in the sauce and cashews/peanuts, taking care to distribute and coat and all of the shrimp. Don't overcook the shrimp, or they will get tough, even rubbery. Serve with the other 2 chopped green onions on top. 

WORD HISTORY:
Cashew-This word for a popular type of nut goes back to Tupi ^ "akaju," the name for the tree producing cashews. The Portuguese picked up the word, as "acaju" (modern Portuguese "caju"), as they explored and settled in Brazil during the 1500s, with the tree name also transferring to the nut. English borrowed the word, circa 1600, without the seemingly unstressed beginning "a," but the word came into more general usage about a hundred years later.   

^ Tupi is a family of South American Indian languages, many located in central and western Brazil and Bolivia, but also in some parts of a few other countries, as well.