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‘The Shrimp Girl’ was created in c.1745 by William Hogarth in Rococo style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. The Shrimp Girl. William Hogarth. A Harlot's Progress Hudibras Sallies Forth Industry and Idleness John Wilkes Esq. The Lottery The South Sea Scheme. In the improvised composition of this oil sketch of The Shrimp Girl, we see Hogarth's painterly talent at its very finest. Here, he succeeds in creating a spontaneous reiteration of his observations with all the impact of a first impression.
April 29, 2019 11 Comments
Can you cook a delicious meal in five minutes? Oven roasted shrimp will change your mind on the definition of fast food.
If you didn’t have to heat your oven up to 400 F - this would be faster than any McDonald’s hamburger. Of course, this is much tastier (if you are a fan of shrimp which I definitely am).
I created a shrimp fajita recipe in this post on How to Thaw Shrimp and pineapple and shrimp skewers
Roasted shrimp is low in calories (112 calories for four ounces) and a cinch to cook. These little buggers are nutritious too!
Four ounces of cooked shrimp serves up nearly half the DHA and EPA — omega-3 fats — you should be getting every day. Omega-3s reduce blood pressure and triglycerides (fats in the blood) and are one of the only nutrients that raise good HDL cholesterol.
Of course, shrimp are high in cholesterol but (as we have talked about with eggs) the amount of cholesterol in your food does not impact your overall cholesterol numbers.
The only deal with shrimp is that it can be hard to know which ones to buy. Two rules:
1. Always buy frozen shrimp. The ones that are at the fish counter were frozen and are now thawing in front of you. Unless you are buying them off the boat - stick to frozen.
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2. Try to buy shrimp that has been harvested or farmed in such a way that doesn’t ruin the environment.
This Aldi shrimp along with the shrimp that I bought from Whole Foods alerts me to the “Best Aquaculture Practices” certification for the shrimp. I believe, since many were not buying farmed shrimp from Indonesia and Thailand, pressure was put on the industry to clean up. You can now find plenty of sustainable choices in the shrimp department.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium puts out a great website – Seafood Watch - and they now have an app for determining which seafood is best from an environmental perspective.
This recipe is so easy that it is worth finding great shrimp! All you do is toss it on a pan with a little olive oil and roast for FIVE minutes. Done!
I may be mistaken, but I believe they are more flavorful when cooked with the shells on. We can argue below!
I serve them with a slice of lemon and I find that peeling them makes me savor them all the more.
Do you eat shrimp? How do you cook them?
The Shrimp Girl William Hogarth
Roasted Shrimp Recipe
Makes 3, four-ounce servings
Ingredients
12 ounces medium sized raw shrimp, thawed
1 teaspoon olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
lemon slices (optional)
1 teaspoon olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
lemon slices (optional)
Instructions
Heat oven to 400 F. Put shrimp on pan and drizzle with olive oil. Salt and pepper them and cook for 5 minutes or until pink. Serve hot with lemon squeezed over them.
Nutrition Facts
For 4 ounces = 148 calories, 3.5 g fat, 0.8 g saturated fat, 1.7 g carbohydrates, 0 g sugar, 25.8 g protein, 0 g fiber, 277 mg sodium, Green 1. Blue 0, Green 0 WW SmartPts
Points values are calculated by Snack Girl and are provided for information only. See all Snack Girl Recipes
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SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand — Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped the guts, heads, tails and shells off shrimp bound for overseas markets, including grocery stores and all-you-can-eat buffets across the United States.
After being sold to the Gig Peeling Factory, they were at the mercy of their Thai bosses, trapped with nearly 100 other Burmese migrants. Children worked alongside them, including a girl so tiny she had to stand on a stool to reach the peeling table. Some had been there for months, even years, getting little or no pay. Always, someone was watching.
No names were ever used, only numbers given by their boss — Tin Nyo Win was No. 31.
Pervasive human trafficking has helped turn Thailand into one of the world’s biggest shrimp providers. Despite repeated promises by businesses and government to clean up the country’s $7 billion seafood export industry, an Associated Press investigation has found shrimp peeled by modern-day slaves is reaching the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Hogarth The Shrimp Girl
The problem is fueled by corruption and complicity among police and authorities. Arrests and prosecutions are rare. Raids can end up sending migrants without proper paperwork to jail, while owners go unpunished.