Shrimp Cacciucco

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I love the show and think you are both a good chef and a admirable teacher. I tried to make this recipe (I am a shepherd in upstate NY-no particular experience cooking. Despite the fact that I made two small mistakes it came out great! My family loved it. I will make it again soon to become more proficient. I do have one question though. With the shrimp whole, how do you clean out the shrimps digetive tract? Did I miss that on the show? Do you just leave it in the food for this recipe? Anyway, thanks again. I think you are tough but fair, and I look forward to learning more from you.....

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So far I have enjoyed the show and I have especially enjoyed this recipe. Thank you Anne. The recipe was simple but elegant and full of flavor. What more can you ask for.
As I said I enjoy the episodes and the funny side of Anne. I would prefer if more time were spent on the techniques used to make the dish and less time on the emotional/disastrous side of the new cooks. While I know this is the higlight of the show, I personnally would like to learn the techniques along side oof the other participants.
Thanks again for my viewing enjoyment.

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Great concept for a televison program. Thank you for sharing the recipes. I am on a first name basis with multiple restaurant staff. I appreciate and love them dearly, but any help I can obtain in the culinary arena is truely appreciated.

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I think some of the readers on this site seem to assume this will be complicated because it looks fancy at the end. Actually it's very easy and does teach basic/useful techniques like sweating onions, making a broth... etc.

One reader suggested "Why didn't they teach them how to cook normal foods like a roast, meatloaf with roasted veggies, dry pasta with meatballs." Well quite simply because anyone can look at a cookbook and understand how to put stuff on meat and put it in the oven, or boil water and put pasta in it. The show isn't trying to teach people how to make passable bachelor food... it's teaching them how to actually cook decently. They're learning the techniques needed to make anything that wouldn't accompany a 1950s TV dinner. Now I know the shrimp w/heads and saffron may look intimidating but the basic premise of the dish is simple.

As for the recipe.. it's quite good.

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the worst cooks expensive ingredients to make them better cooks without teaching the basics first.

I am going to try this recipe in the future, when I am more comfortable with cooking techniques.

Both Anne Burrell and Beau MacMillan should lose their part of the competition, because they are lousy teachers and all they do complain about how bad their students are when the title of the show should give them a hint, teach them the right way!

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The ad for the show was enticing and it delivered. It is a creative concept for a show. I can't wait for the next one. As a teacher myself and since these are the worst cooks I would have demonstrated and had them practice each step individually before they actually made the whole dish. Since they are both teaching the same way, I think it is fair. I think Ann is nicer with her criticism. I will be trying her dish soon.

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I ACTUALLY MADE THIS AND IT IS REALLY GOOD AND EASY. DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SO MANY OF THE OTHER COMMENTATORS DIDN'T GET THAT THEY DID PICK THE WORST.
I THINK THE CRITERIA FOR ELIMINATING CONTESTANTS SHOULD BE TO ELIMINATE EVERYONE WHO CRIES.
AS FAR AS THE CRITICISM BEING TOO ROUGH , HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED "CHOPPED" .....IT'S BRUTAL, SOMETIMES JUST FEELS MEAN-SPIRITED AND BOY! DON'T EVER DISAGREE OR TRY TO DEFEND YOUR DISH WITH THAT CREW. ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE MADE A GOOD POINT, THEY EITHER THROW YOU OFF RIGHT AWAY OR REALLY PUNISH YOU BY WAITING UNTIL THE VERY END.

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I enjoyed the show. These people were quite bad cooks. I empathized with the one who was always on the verge of tears. I couldn't have handled having Beau as my judge, regardless, Ann, I felt her criticism was easier to digest.
I was curious as to how this show would evolve and I think I'll tune in next time to see what happens. I was hoping that the really worst cooks would stay on and not get eliminated because the ones that are moving on, I can already see their potential. But what about the others who really ned help?
Hopefully any sanitation issues will immediately be addressed. And since when is licking a knife considered appropriate? ( have seen a judge on another FN show LICK HER KNIFE!

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I wouldn't try to make either of those first 2 dishes as it was too hard for a newbie and I am not a newbie but I am not talented in the kitchen either. I also wouldn't have eaten it; I don't want the eyes looking at me. I do love to eat shrimp normally in pasta or a stir-fry. It even grossed out my hubby that was raised on fresh seafood in Florida.

Why didn't they teach them how to cook normal foods like a roast, meatloaf with roasted veggies, dry pasta with meatballs, some homemade vegetable soup or macaroni and cheese. Something that normal beginning cooks would enjoy to make and serve to their friends and it could even be a little fancy. Maybe chefs can't remember how it was when they started to cook like not being able to boil water or to only know how to open a can of soup or a bowl of cereal. I think that would have been more entertaining. I would have liked to see what that guy that boiled that whole chicken would have come up with next. Good luck to the newbies; don't give up keep cooking and at the end of the show you can try normal foods on your own. I love Step-By-Step Cookbooks like Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book.

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the rating is for the food, this recipe looks good and i will try it this weekend. i gave it 5 stars to cancel your rating out (lol
also, the show picked out the worst, and now its a compition to see who will be able to improve, i thought it was entertaning and enjoyed it