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Mary Elizabeth Williams

SHOCKING: Scampi free scampi is the best scampi - You Need To See This

Scampi Mary Elizabeth Williams
You don’t need an expensive new piece of equipment, or an obscure ingredient you have to hunt for. You just need a fresh way of preparing an old favorite. In "One Way," we’ll revisit classic ingredients and dishes, giving them a new twist with an easy technique you haven’t tried before.

One of my favorite cinematic food scenes is a scene from the movie "Bugsy." The glamorous Virginia Hill (played by the glamorous Annette Bening) sits down to eat with her mobster lover. Before digging in to dinner, she tells him, "I hope you like scampi, served on a bed of soft brown rice, rimmed by carrots and peas." Bening makes every word of that sentence sound like the sexiest thing in the entire world.

I used to think "scampi" was the sauce that was served with the shrimp. I recently learned, however, that scampi is a crustacean. This means that when you're serving "shrimp scampi," you're basically serving crustacean crustacean. As someone who's allergic to shrimp, crustacean crustacean is definitely a no no.

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