Sexy R&B Shrimp Scampi - SweetJack The Blog

Get in the mood with some sexy soul food.

Celebrate National Shrimp Scampi Day with a sexy twist?on this classic pasta dish, with a special side of rhythm and blues.

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp. olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
• 1/2 tomato (chopped)
• 1/3 cup dry white wine
• 1/2 tsp. black pepper
• 1/2 tsp. white pepper
• 4 tbsp. unsalted butter
• 1/2 tsp. ground red pepper
• 1/3 cup fresh parsley (chopped)
• 1 lemon (sliced into long quarters)
• 1 tsp. Kosher salt
• Blackened seasoning (optional, but also mandatory)
• 1 lb. peeled/deveined raw white shrimp
• 1/2 lb. pasta (your choice; long, thin noodles such as angel hair is recommended)
• At least one hour of classic ?90s R&B hits

Instructions

Fill a large pot halfway with water, and place on high until it reaches a rolling boil. Go to your home stereo, and queue up the playlist of your favorite R&B songs of the late/great ?90s. Start with Johnny Gill?s ?My My My?. Call your special lover and tell them to be there in 30 minutes or less. If a female, tell her to slip on her red dress.

Pour 1/4 cup Kosher salt into boiling water, stir until dissolved. Stir smoothly, but with a strong, steady hand. Pour 1 tablespoon olive oil into water, and drop the pasta into water. Promise you?ll come back when it?s nice and hot?

Reduce heat to medium-high, stirring occasionally to avoid pasta sticking together. While pasta is boiling, place the strainer over the mixing bowl in your kitchen sink. Allow the pasta to boil for 9-to-11 minutes, or whatever you consider ?al dente? (as long as this is not the name of your date?s ex-boyfriend), then remove the pot from the heat. Pour the pasta and saltwater over the strainer so it catches the pasta above but retains the saltwater in the bowl. Place the bowl of saltwater on the counter, and rinse the pasta with cold water so it stops cooking. Tell those noodles to chill ? your date will arrive soon. Turn up the Tony Terry or Color Me Badd.

In a large pan, heat 2 tablespoons of oil at medium-high heat until you can see very slight white smoke. Place shrimp in the pan and saut? for 90 seconds on each side, turning only once. Don?t let it cook too fast. When shrimp is pink on both sides, remove them from the pan with a slotted spoon and place into a temporary container, leaving behind the oil in the pan. You?ll come back to it; you promise. Say this out loud in your Devante voice. Actually, sing it. Sing it like K-Ci & JoJo.

Put the chopped garlic into the pan, along with the wine, salt, pepper, and parsley, cooking for 1-to-2 minutes ? don?t let it boil. Add butter, and stir until it is melted into the mixture. Add shrimp and tomatoes, reduce heat to medium, and cover, letting it cook for 2 minutes. Remove cover, and add pasta, along with 1/4 cup of saltwater from the mixing bowl. Stir and continue to cook for one additional minute, then squeeze two lemon slices over the contents of the pan. Boyz II Men should be playing at this point. Not ?MotownPhilly?; more like ?I?ll Make Love To You?.

Scoop the finished shrimp scampi onto two large plates, sprinkle with blackened seasoning, and garnish with lemon wedges. Skip ahead to Prince, and stay there. Devour.

Serves two for dinner, allows your date to take one serving to work the next day for lunch, and provides dinner for yourself the next night.

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Michael Jordan is a journalist, home chef, copywriter, future trillionaire and SweetJack?s Senior Editor. At 5?6?, he accepts that his ability to dunk is limited to donuts, but in nothing less than the finest French-pressed coffees.

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