Garlic Shrimp Tapas Recipe

Luck? What is luck? Is there really such a thing? There was a man who traveled on both the Titanic and the Lusitania and survived both. Conincidence? When you get right down to it, probably. There were no airplanes making transatlantic flights, and only a limited number of luxery liners (Especially in 1915 when the Lusitania was torpedoed) the chances were pretty good that someone who made regular crossings might have ended up on both these ships. It might be an urban legend though, something to make two rather simple disasters seem more mysterious.

Just another tale to fuel our superstitions. Like we need more. There are so many innocuous everyday things that are considered bad luck, good luck or fatal. I used to have a lucky rabbits foot key chain, it really grossed me out. I think my father bought it for me. I lost it of course, with my keys, down the side of the granite quarry. So I guess it wasn’t lucky for me or the rabbit. Silly rabbit tricks are for ho’s. It always seemed to me that there were more things that brought bad luck than there were things that brought good luck. Such as placing a hat on the bed, or shoes on the table, or sticking your chopsticks sticking straight up in a bowl of food, or worst of all peacock feathers. All symbolic of death. The hat is something to do with beds and hats and stuff (No really it is, I just can’t remember what that thing was right now), the shoes are easy, shoes are only on the table when you are dead and laid out on the table for your wake. The chopsticks are a little different. When sticking straight up in a bowl of rice or food they look like incense sticks. Which are burned as offerings to the ancestors and to placate the dead spirits so that they do not come back and haunt the living by trying to get them interested in Amway. Peacock feathers are said to have the eyes of demons on them to lure the souls of the living unto the underworld. Creepy.
Speaking of the underworld did you know that the word “Tod” in German is death? Did you also know that if the Crown Prince of Austro-Hungary had not killed himself in a murder suicide pact with a 17 year old girl in 1889 World War I, probably would never have happened? Such is the twisted addle pated nature of fate.

This in no way whatsoever brings me to these happy tapas shrimp. Well, they are not happy, they are dead, but I am happy because they have died to feed me their mortal flesh! Boy does that just sound wrong.

I love shrimp, jumbo shrimp, salad shrimp, tiger shrimp, shrimp paste, dried shrimp, shrimp ramen noodles, I also happen to be a huge garlic fan. That’s what makes these little buggers so good. Now be careful with this, these should be served bubbling hot, remember that, because the spattering oil will burn you horribly if it gets a chance. The oil knows where you live and is out to get you.

Ingredients:

3 Tablespoons of olive oil
3-4 Cloves of garlic
1 Pound Medium- Large Shrimp
¼ Tsp Cayenne
1 Tbs Lemon juice
1 Tsp of paprika
1 Tbs of Parsley

Method:

Heat the olive oil over high heat and add the garlic cook until lightly browned, add the shrimp and cook one minute add the cayenne and the lemon juice; continue to cook shaking the pan till shrimp are pink and liquid has evaporated, about 2 more minutes, remove from heat and dust with paprika and parsley . Serves 4-6 as part of a tapas meal