Fun times with Tammy,Shrimp & Wine

Danny went to Charleston,WV on June 1st overnight for a meeting so it was a perfect time to catch up with Tammy, which always includes Wine & Food. I saw Barefoot Contessa make this recipe for Baked Shrimp Scampi several times and have been wanting to try it. We went shrimping at the camp a few weeks ago and brought some shrimp back with us to Houston so I knew it was the perfect time to try it.

You start off with some big shrimp. Peel and devein them and cut them open to butterfly them. I left the tails on but you don't have too. Mix with the marinade and arrange in a baking dish butterfly cut side down and let the tails curve back over the shrimp.

This is the stuffing mix. It was really easy to make. Just make sure the butter is at room temp so it mixes easy.

Barefoot Contessa just plopped the stuffing on top of the shrimp but Tammy is much more creative that that. Tammy lifted up the shrimp tail and put the stuffing on top of the shrimp and curled the shrimp tail on top of the stuffing. I don't usually drink while cooking but at this point, I started.LOL. I was starving and just wanted to eat but I think Tammy is tired of cleaning up after me when we cook so as she was putting her artist impression on the shrimp, I was forced to do the dishes. I will admit, it was a lot prettier than Barefoot Contessa's. Tammy may want to see if Ina needs an assisant to help her in her cooking show.
So we put the shrimp in the oven and finished off what was left of the wine we used for cooking and caught up on each other lives. Barefoot Contessa just served her on a plate by themselves but we decided we wanted to try it over some pasta. We put a pot of water on the stove and it was taking forever to come to a boil so we, being the smart women that we are, put a baking sheet on top of the the pot and it was boiling before we knew it. Threw in some thin spaghetti was done in know time. When the shrimp were cooked, we did not find they were browned enough so we put them under the broiler and opened another bottle and waited for them to get GBD..Golden Browned & Delicious.

The smell when they came out the oven was amazing. All the butter garlic & lemon..YUM. So we fixed a plate of the shrimp over the pasta and opened another bottle of wine...hehe. It was so good, I still can't belive it tasted so good. Tammy wanted the recipe so we looked it up so I could print it for her and we watched the video of Ina making the dish on the foodtv website. It was taking forever for the video to load up so we fixed us another plate while waiting. When we looked at the recipe, we both laugh cause it said "serves 6" ?!?! HUH...me and Tammy ate and they had just enough left over for her hubby. Ina must NOT be used to cooking for Cajuns nor Texans !!

Crystal is flying into Houston on Monday and we are going to cook this again for her. Tammy had the idea of putting a layer of asparagus at the bottom of the pan and the shrimp on top so I think we are going to try that. Come on, how bad could that be..asparagus cooking in butter,garlic,lemon & wine !!!

We may even try it on top of some fish too.

Ina said in her video that she never tries a new recipe out on company, well like Tammy said, she is family,not company. It was a fun night cooking,drinking and catching up.

This is the wine we used to cook with. Very good to cook and drink.I need to get a few bottles for Monday. I bet it's even better to drink the wine with the meal you cook it in. Too bad the shrimp took so long to cook. We finished off the bottle and had to drink a different one with supper..LOL
 Baked Shrimp Scampi
2 LBS Large Shrimp
3 TBS Good Olive Oil
2 TBS Dry White Wine
1 TS Salt
1 TS Black Pepper

12 TBS ( 1/12 blocks) unsalted butter-room temp
5 TSP Minced Garlic
1/4 Cup Minced Shallot or Onion
4 TBS Minced Flat Parsley
1 TBS Grated Lemon
3 TBS Lemon Juice
1 Egg Yolk
2/3 Cup Panko Bread Crumbs

Mix the olive oil,salt & pepper and add to the cleaned shrimp. Arrange in baking dish. Mix the butter,garlic,shallot,parsley,lemon juice,grated lemon,egg yolk together and add bread crumbs and mix well. Put on top of shrimp. Bake at 425  tfor 10 mins and them put close under broiler till browned.