Recipe #30: A Brazilian-Inspired Cocktail -- "The Drink From Ipanema" :)

Mmmmmm, boy, that last recipe made me hungry for more foods from Latin America. This time we'll "travel" to Brazil -- land of Carnaval, samba, soccer (national sports obsession #1), volleyball (probably a close second to soccer, or atleast very high up there on the list!), beautiful beaches, beautiful people, samba, exquisite geodes, Linux, & yes, a nation-wide obsession with the badunkadunk. :-D

For starters, I'd like to suggest a cocktail. :) Now, I realize I'm probably committing blasphemy by listing an alcoholic beverage on a supposed "health food recipe blog," but we can't all live like monks day in & day out. Otherwise, we'll all go diving headlong into a 10 lb. chocolate cake & devour the entire thing in one sitting. ;-) Plus, it's my blog & I can do with it what I want. If I want to list a cocktail recipe on my blog, or an occasional dessert that's not entirely low-fat or low-anything, then I'm bloody *#@$% well going to do it. So there!

While I'm admittedly more of a "once in a blue moon" kind of drinker & make a practice of abstaining while training (for obvious reasons!), I never claimed to be a teetotaler either. After all, a little enjoyment of spirits here & there is something of which most of us like to partake. And now for that cocktail recipe:

"The Drink From Ipanema"

Ingredients:

5 oz. guava juice

1 oz. rose water

splash of triple sec

splash of blue Curaçao

Directions: Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon or lime. For extra visual effect, float a single rose petal on top of each drink.

Yield: 1 cocktail.

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10 shell-on U-15 (extra large) shrimp, deveined
1 head (10 cloves) garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
1 cup flour
2 tablespoons paprika
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (1 tablespoon for spicier tastes)
1/2 stick clarified butter (see our video recipe)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 cup white wine
2 tablespoons regular butter

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Heat saute pan over high heat.

Add clarified butter and garlic. Stir for 1 minute, then add all of the shrimp, which has been coated in the flour mixture. Saute 3 minutes on each side.

After 3 minutes on the second side, add the 1/8 cup of white wine and 2 tablespoons butter. Saute, turning shrimp occasionally, until it reaches a caramel brown color.

Remove shrimp immediately and serve with two mounds of sticky steamed calrose rice and a lemon wedge, spooning extra garlic butter sauce over the rice and shrimp. Add extra salt and cayenne pepper to taste if desired.

Makes 2 servings of 5 jumbo shrimp each.

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