Posted on 12/12/2021 2:25:10 PM PST by mylife
n Absolute Best Tests, our writer Ella Quittner destroys the sanctity of her home kitchen in the name of the truth. She's seared more porterhouse steaks than she cares to recall, tasted enough types of bacon to concern a cardiologist, and ranked potatoes from “most forgettable” to “potatoes we’d like to marry.” Today, she tackles shrimp.
Humankind’s first known shellfish feast occurred sometime around 163,000 B.C., in a cave on the southern coast of South Africa. Many millennia later, excavators found a bowl of roughly two dozen edible creatures, including mussels and at least one barnacle that had previously resided on the belly of a whale.
Humankind’s most bizarre known shellfish feast occurred sometime around 7 a.m. last Tuesday in my apartment. It consisted of just me, a whole pound of butter, and more shrimp than would comfortably fit in my crisper drawer. I emerged several hours later, grease-battered, weary, and surprised by several of my findings. It was, in other words, an average Absolute Best Tests trial day.
Let’s make like a crustacean and dive in:
(Excerpt) Read more at food52.com ...
Dammit
Now I’m hungry for shrimp
Recently spent 2 weeks in Florida and mowed down dozens of raw oysters and shrimp boiled different ways
One place I really like, they’re warm, served with a cup of Louisiana HotSauce laced butter
I’m frickkin drooling right now typing this
LOL.
Naw it’s finicky. Shrimp is a little too bland for me however, I prefer squid. But there are certain ways you must cook that as well.
calamari is an art, shrimp is easy peasy
Those type of statements always annoyed me because they imply that eating meat somehow means you are going to have heart problems.
Actually a diet heavy in eggs and meat can IMPROVE your heart (and cholesterol profile) when combined with an overall good diet and exercise regimen. But I digress.
The shrimp recipe at the link is very similar to how I like to cook my shrimp. I use a cast iron skillet with a lot of butter and garlic.
I also agree that leaving the shells (tails) on while cooking improves the flavor but when I cook for others, they complain about having to peel the shrimp themselves. So when I cook for others, I peel the shrimp before cooking because they are a bunch of crybabies otherwise.
I sauté in garlic, red pepper flakes and butter, lots of butter. Two minutes per side. Perfect every time.
I cook them in their shells. Moister and more flavorful but not everyone’s cup of tea.
I cooked raw shrimp for the first time ever yesterday. 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil on a medium skillet on medium-high heat. Cooked while continuously stirring, flipping and shifting until pale. REALLY came out great.
hell if they at good shrimp I eat the whole damn thang shell and all..
raw shrimp a lil marinade, wonderful
Doggone it .... I ate dinner quite early, so I could eat a LOT of shrimp right now. I’m going to have to work my way through some of the recipes ... they look so good.
bon appetite Jr :)
I do them similarly, but in an aluminum pan or sheet of foil on the grill
Unless you over cook, there’s no way to do shrimp that I don’t like
I waver between George and his dad, Frank.
There’s some funny genes in the Costanza household
Well since we are talking crab, got a couple dozen softs frying up .
And some fresh oysters right from Yorktown..mmmm
I gotta theory, if God put a shell on it or pricky prickers, there is something good in there..
Bubba Gump shrimp. 😀 the only way to enjoy shrimp is how YOU like it
Total cop out article. Didn’t have the guts to choose...despite the title of the article.
My brother and mother wont eat it!! WTF!! more for me
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