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Slashfood is featuring a cookie a week until Christmas, and I am all over that. I used to think I was no good at baking, but after my pumpkin cheesecake and oatmeal cookies and two loaves of whole-wheat break with nary a problem, I’m starting to revise this opinion. This week’s cookie: Chocolate Peppermint Drops.
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As a person who doesn’t cook a lot of fish, I’ve been especially intimidated by the shrimps. Hence, in my few shrimp-cooking experiences, I always bought them not just peeled and deveined, but already cooked, so as to avoid the “what the hell do I do with this thing” question altogether. Whenever I saw the little guys at the fish counter, I couldn’t really tell if they’d been peeled and deveined, or just beheaded, or what, and I certainly didn’t know how to do all that stuff to them myself. Yeah, people told me it was easy, but…well, ewwww.
Well, tonight I had my first experience with shrimp I had to deconstruct myself.