This being the first Summer with our new pool, having guests and barbeque happens quite often at the Shepherd household. I thought I’d share with you an appetizer that my Sister’s Husband turned me on to. This wonderful Shrimp dish always gets rave reviews at our cook-outs. I cook them on the side-burner of the grill so they can be done on the stove as well. It takes a bit of “prep-time” so here is how it works…
1. Fresh shrimp, good sized at least U-15’s
2. Remove shell and tails, just the meat left.
3. “Butter-Fly” them by using a serrated knife and cutting along their back.
4. De-Vein them.
5. Squeeze the juice from a lemon over them.
6. Let sit for several minutes.
7. Whip up 1 egg in a bowl.
8. Fill another bowl with Progresso Breadcrumbs.
9. using tongs, dip each shrimp in the egg, then roll in the breadcrumbs.
10. Fill a pan with 1/2 inch of Olive Oil
11. Cook on medium heat each side till golden brown.
Yummy I tell you! They are great with cocktail sauce and stick a toothpick in each one for easy handling!
O.K. folks, I’m off my W.o.W. addiction long enough to finally update my blog! Here’s a pix Wendy took of a Black-Snake in our front yard. I think most people have an irrational fear of snakes, I grew up in the Arizona desert and snakes of all sorts were an everyday occurrence in my youth. I therefore became accustomed to them and learned to differentiate between the harmless and dangerous ones.
With temperatures in the 80’s & 90’s this past week, our pool has warmed very nicely to almost bathtub-like water. We are thrilled to finally have something fun to do on those sweltering hot summer days that would otherwise be spent hibernating indoors with the A/C turned up full blast!
WhooHoo! According to my “Stats”, my blog has had close to 20,000 unique visitors. None of you “regular people” understand this or even care about it but to us HTML’ers, uniques are the “Holy Grail”. For what reason do we toil placing code upon a server? So people can come see what we have to say of course. It’s all for not unless “cyber eyes” are reading what we are writing!
I got this movie on a recommendation from a coworker. I pretty much grew up with the comedy of Jim Carrey and I absolutely loved Tea Leoni in “Family Man” so I thought I’d give it a shot. Carrey and Leoni play an upper class suburbanite couple who are doing pretty well for themselves when all of a sudden the company Carrey works for collapses “Enron” style and they lose everything. Comedy then ensues as they turn to a life of crime to support themselves.
I’ve been ranting for quite a while about how our Government is really not serious about researching alternative fuel sources other than oil. It is my firm belief that Capitol Hill has been “Bought & Paid For” by special interest groups. No serious laws get passed, no serious money is allocated for research, all we get is a little bit of “Lip Service” from the President every year in his State Of The Union Address about how we need to do this.
I’ve been on this planet for almost four decades. One accumulates quite a bit of “life experience” is such a time span. I’ve always preferred people to be direct with me, just tell me what is on your mind, don’t beat around the bush. I’ll deal with it, I promise. One of my biggest peeves, and pardon the crude pun here, is do not “Piss in my face, then try to convince me it’s raining”.
Some of you may be old enough to remember when Michael Dukakis was running for President. The man was actually doing very well in that particular election until one of his people decided the polls showed America thought him soft on defense. They dress him up all G.I. Joe and snap this photo of him in a tank. Back then, American’s were smart enough to see right through this kind of B.S. and summarily slapped him down like an obnoxious school boy. The photograph is widely considered to be one of the worse public relations disasters in know history!