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To De-vein Or Not To De-vein

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It’s a question that is probably discussed to death pretty much all over the shrimp eating world. The opinion is evenly divided for both points of view. Most frozen shrimp / prawn is usually head and shell off with the tail left on and usually “de-veined”. If the shrimp / prawn is head-on shell on, then more often than not, the “vein” would still be in there. This “vein” that we are talking about it is one that runs along top of the shrimp / prawn. What is strange and…

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Chicken Stuffed Squid with Garlic, Red Pepper and Onion

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Last weeks post got a friend all fired up and he just “had” to have stuffed squid. He’d never had it before and wanted to see how it was made, so we got together Saturday evening last to whip it up.  Ideally I’d use a spicy Italian sausage or a chorizo or even a Goan sausage for the stuffing but my wife doesn’t eat red meat so we got some chicken sausage and had to up the flavour quotient of the stuffing. Since it was planned, I had carried the frozen…

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Everyday Easies: The Long and Short of It

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How the day dawns and winds down, every day, is sometimes a stumper even to the most organized people, if you ask them. For most of us, the morning ends in getting the day in order, while evening signals the nearness of the trek back home to relax and plan the next day when it starts all over again. The weekends are reserved for stuff that piles up during the week, and needs to be sorted at the first opportunity available. So weekends see paperwork being dealt with, trips to…

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