whoa, i ... really dislike the presentation style. I was going to downvote it purely on the basis of the idea of "shrimp scampi" which to me is like calling a dish "beef chicken", but it turns out that scampi is the name of a dish in American cookery. Bah. To me, scampi refers to a small langoustine.

There are a lot of ways that I disagree with the recipe in this video as well as the disdain that I have for the perky presentation style.

Problem the first:
Recommending people to buy already peeled shrimp does them a disservice. The best way to cook shrimp is if they are still whole and alive, and each step further away from that will yield an inferior final result. So, best is alive, but whole, head on fresh is better than headless is better than headless peeled shrimp. Essentially, she is recommending boneless skinless chicken breast for the christmas roast.

Problem the second:
That garlic was NOT READY. There is a time and a place for raw garlic, but not in a dish like this. Fry your garlic until it just turns golden. This requires the garlic to be uniformly chopped. Not minced or pureed, but uniformly chopped, so that it is all ready at around the same time. I actually personally prefer to slice my garlic thinly, like that scene in Goodfellas. Pay very close attention though, because that moment when the garlic is perfect is only a few seconds away from burnt, bitter fail.

Problem the third:
While boiling shrimp is a reasonable way for cooking them in certain circumstances, for the dish that she is preparing, this is far from ideal. When the garlic has reached that perfect point of golden, then toss your shrimp in, and take it off the heat for a moment. If you time it right, the shrimp will cool off the oil and garlic, seizing it at just the right flavour. When the sizzle calms down a touch, put the pot back on the heat and let the shrimp get some colour on one side. After a moment, stir the shrimp and THEN add the wine. I agree with mintBBB about the clam juice. WTF. I am actually kind of scared of store bought clam juice, although I make my own from time to time and I LOOOOOOVE it. I wouldn't use it to cook shrimp though, maybe I'll try it some time. Anyway, yes, then proceed the way that the video said.

Basically, my biggest issues are the name of the dish, the peeled shrimp, how she cooks the garlic, and when she adds the shrimp. Oh, and her perky perky annoying voice.

Oh and another thing. Curly parsley? Come on. Get the flat leaf, please.

Anyway, that's my rant/recipe fix.

When they play this live, Maynard busts out a headless bass.

Thanks for your comment post. Your opinion is welcomed here.

In reply to this comment by dbalsdon:
SDGundamX:
You should try debating with headless chickens. It would be a LOT easier then trying to debate with truthers.

"I don't know why people place such great emphasis on what happened on the day rather on how it was allowed to happen given the massive influx of covert intelligence saying that an attack was imminent coming from various sources in Europe."

Exactly what intelligence did they receive? "An attack is going to happen soon", or "4 planes are going to be hijacked and crashed into buildings on 9/11"

"But that's no big deal, because the NIST report is also based mostly on conjecture and witness testimony, with little supporting photographic evidence."

This, coming from someone who claims: "Massive fires raging all day, with nothing to substantiate that." Yep. Except for all the firefighters and people who were actually there, and the photos showing smoke coming from the building.

Hang on. I thought NYC officials already stated publically that WTC7 was intentionally pulled down when it was clear that it couldn't be saved with a reasonable amount of work?

Not WTC7. Some buildings were purposefully demolished/pulled down AFTER 9/11, when "it was clear... blah". Or are you referring to Silverstein's 'pull it' phrase, in which, based on what firefighters on the ground were reporting back to him, he told them to abandon WTC7 because it wasn't safe.

"You are willing to accept the official story where so many are not, simply because they see a 47 story building plummet to the ground at near free-fall speed"

Many? Ha!! Freefall?? Oh, the claim that it collapsed in 9.7(or something like that) seconds. WRONG!! The building took a LOT longer then 9.7 seconds to collapse. First(and the bit that is ALWAYS ignored by truthers) is that the north(east/west) section of wtc7 collapsed about 5 to 10 seconds BEFORE the main collapse started. So, when the main part collapsed, there was already a large part of the building already gone.

Sorry for butting in, but just noticed that the first post here was off me being quoted.

>> ^Goofball_Jones:
That point is, yes, this thing can boot into X11 in 6 seconds and in only 2mb...but so what? How practical is this? How much is missing or thrown out of the OS just so you can fit it all in 2mb WITH X11? I say throw out X11 from there, have it boot into just a shell and you have much more functionality.

We are talking about X here, an Xserver specifically. Running the Xclient apps on a headless box in the corner makes this entirely functional. Patch the kernel on the BIOS with openMOSIX and you can have a fast booting load sharing cluster of X workstations. What about this was useless again?

Congratulations, schmawy. Remember, headless cat!

Headless cat, for April Fools Day. Maybe someone will think that you're actually dead.

Hilarious comments in this sift,

"two guys moving a futon"
"imagine it wandering into a backyard with a bunch of kids playing."
"a headless mountain goat powered by kazoos."

Hahah

I laughed hysterically the entire way through that video. It's like a headless mountain goat powered by kazoos.

my favourite "dual-headed" guitarist is Dave Fiuczynski from Screaming Headless Torsos

lol thx

In reply to this comment by finch451:
Haha, you are far too cool.

In reply to this comment by looris:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Headless-Horseman-Bud-Light-Ad

if you send a requeue before it gets discarded, maybe it'll finally make it... I'll spam it in the talk, too, just to be sure

Haha, you are far too cool.

In reply to this comment by looris:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Headless-Horseman-Bud-Light-Ad

if you send a requeue before it gets discarded, maybe it'll finally make it... I'll spam it in the talk, too, just to be sure

http://www.videosift.com/video/Headless-Horseman-Bud-Light-Ad

if you send a requeue before it gets discarded, maybe it'll finally make it... I'll spam it in the talk, too, just to be sure

If it had been a ninja, there would have been a flash on the screen, and then a headless corpse lying on the track.

How is a headless, skinned squirrel in any way cute?

First Crusade: 1095 on command of pope Urban II.
Semlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain. Wieselburg/Hungary 6/12/96 thousands.
9/9/96-9/26/96 Nikaia, Xerigordon (then turkish), thousands respectively.
Until Jan 1098 a total of 40 capital cities and 200 castles conquered (number of slain unknown)
after 6/3/98 Antiochia (then turkish) conquered, between 10,000 and 60,000 slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl. women & children) killed.
Here the Christians "did no other harm to the women found in [the enemy's] tents - save that they ran their lances through their bellies," according to Christian chronicler Fulcher of Chartres.
Marra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed. Because of the subsequent famine "the already stinking corpses of the enemies were eaten by the Christians" said chronicler Albert Aquensis.
Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (jewish, muslim, men, women, children).
(In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, to honour it and to pay off our debt of gratitude")
The Archbishop of Tyre, eye-witness, wrote: "It was impossible to look upon the vast numbers of the slain without horror; everywhere lay fragments of human bodies, and the very ground was covered with the blood of the slain. It was not alone the spectacle of headless bodies and mutilated limbs strewn in all directions that roused the horror of all who looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to gaze upon the victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to foot, an ominous sight which brought terror to all who met them. It is reported that within the Temple enclosure alone about ten thousand infidels perished."
Christian chronicler Eckehard of Aura noted that "even the following summer in all of palestine the air was polluted by the stench of decomposition". One million victims of the first crusade alone.
Battle of Askalon, 8/12/1099. 200,000 heathens slaughtered "in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ".
Fourth crusade: 4/12/1204 Constantinople sacked, number of victims unknown, numerous thousands, many of them Christian.
Rest of Crusades in less detail: until the fall of Akkon 1291 probably 20 million victims (in the Holy land and Arab/Turkish areas alone).