In article >,
Kathleen > wrote:

> Shrimp prepared this way is really, *really* fricken good.

The last couple of times I grilled shrimp, I marinated them in Italian
Salad dressing. ;-) Skewered with mushrooms and zucchini.

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>
> Granted, the first time I made them this way was down in Puerto Penasco
> (Mexico). We were there with our extended family over Easter. My mom,
> my sister and I drove into town each day to purchase supplies for
> dinner, and on Friday wound up in the middle of some sort of Holy Week
> Cruise. There were posh pickups, decked out with every sort of bling,
> Grandma and the little ones riding in lawn chairs in the back. There
> were low riders bounding along, showing off their suspensions. There
> were aged hatch backs packed chock-ablock with grownups, while the kids
> rode in the open hatch. Stereo systems were cranked to the max.
>
> So my sister tunes her minivan's radio to some sort of mexican rap and
> cranks it up, she and I pull our hats down low and we cruise along with
> everybody else. My teen-aged daughter, and my sister's teen-aged boy
> were with us and they were absolutely mortified. Grandma couldn't stop
> laughing.
>
> A couple of days later the young-uns were acclimated enough that their
> sense of humor had resurfaced. There was a mardi-gras atmosphere when
> we went into town one evening. Some guys were hooting and hollering at
> any female between the age of 6 and 60. When they called to my
> daughter, Hey show us your chest, her cousin, Christopher, whipped
> around and pulled his shirt up. It was a true Kodak moment.

<lol> Fun story!

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> >
> > I may have to try boiling crab in salt water sometime here. I can look
> > up the salt percentage to use. I've forgotten what I used to use to
> > hatch brine shrimp for my Beta.
>
> I use a solution less salty than actual sea water - more like tears.
> which is easy to judge by taste.

Got it.
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