The Most Amazing Shrimp Recipe
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 ~ 10:56 am
Last night I cooked. Yes, that’s right, I cooked. I can hear the shocked gasps as my two sisters read this because unlike most of my readers they know that I don’t normally cook. I can reheat, I can throw a sandwich together and a salad or pour a mean bowl of cereal but I don’t often cook. Hell I had to create a whole new cooking category for this post.
Mostly it’s because I’m way too tired when I get home from work to bother doing anything other than the above and really it makes for a pretty unhealthy lifestyle most of the time. So Gary and I have decided that we are going to branch out. We are going to try new recipes and eat healthier because as much as I love my bowl of fruit loops, I don’t think it was meant to be dinner two nights of the week for a 32 year old woman.
So this weekend I started searching some of the cooking sites and came across this lovely recipe for Greek Spiced Baked Shrimp. Gary and I are both big fans of shrimp and feta so I thought why not, I’ll give it a shot. I was a bit wary of the spices but it got some great reviews so it sealed the deal for us.
Last night I came home tired but determined to try this recipe. I fiddled, I measured, I chopped, I pinched and dashed, hell I even sautéd and damn it I was pretty damn proud of myself because I was “cooking”. I felt like a grown up and a healthy grown up at that. I also quickly realized that our kitchen is really disorganized and not really set up for the whole cooking scene but that’s another post for later.
I must say while cooking the sauce the spices smelled absolutely heavenly together. Once the shrimp was in and the dish was topped with feta, I threw it into the oven. We weren’t sure how the dish would turn out so we made some penne pasta to go with it. I would skip the pasta next time and just serve the dish with some fresh crusty bread (we used buns because the store was out of fresh loaves) and a nice green side salad. I would also try making it next time with low fat feta to try and make it even healthier.
So go ahead, if you’re feeling adventurous give this recipe a try. Hopefully you won’t be disappointed. Gary and both agreed that this was the best shrimp dish we’ve ever eaten.
4 Comments
Mmm, that looks really good! Recipe duly bookmarked…
You rock! What I do is I make a menu of 7 meals for the week and go grocery shopping. We eat out twice, so 2 of those go into the pantry generally (I only buy greens for 5 days). 2-3 of those planned meals have to be something that is QUICK. As in a stirfry or something that can be done in 10-15 minutes. Don’t try to get all cheftastic in planning, it never works out. Start gradual and you will be able to stick with it. If you want healthy meals, I have a ton of them. I add precooked chicken and stuff to a lot of them for Ben, so I can send them on by. Some people say to precook on Sundays or something, but I have better things to do like play video games and knit and stuff
Thanks Shannon! If you want to email me a couple of your favourite recipes that would be great
I also don’t like precooking on Sunday’s because I would much prefer to watch movies curled up on the couch.
Cool! Sounds yummy. I’ve been cooking a lot lately. It helps to have someone to cook for. I love all the smells that come out of the apartment when I’m cooking. I even made a jambalaya this week!!