Garlic Butter Shrimp

Who loves garlic butter shrimp? I do! It’s also a super easy dish to make with few ingredients. I always have frozen shrimp in my freezer so this was an easy go-to meal to make, especially after not having been to the grocery store in almost a week!

GARLIC BUTTER SHRIMP (serves 2-3)

Ingredients:

·       20 shrimps, deveined with tail on

·       4 tbsp butter, melted

·       ¼ cup olive oil

·       8 cloves of garlic, minced

·       ½ tsp salt

·       ½ tsp black pepper

·       1 tsp red pepper flakes

·       ½ lime or lemon, juiced + additional slices for serving

·       1 tomato diced (optional)

·       ¼ cup chopped cilantro (for garnishing)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Make a shallow cut on the back of the shrimp. Line an 8 or 10-inch cast iron skillet with shrimp. In a bowl, mix all of the ingredients together (except for the tomatoes and cilantro). Pour marinade over the shrimp. Add diced tomatoes on top.

Bake for roughly 15 minutes. Oven times vary so make sure you check the shrimp around 10-12 minutes in.

Serve over rice or pasta. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro and garnish with slices of lime or lemon.

Lazy Comfort Food

What is your go-to dish when you don't really feel like cooking or grocery shopping?  After my week-long Thanksgiving break, I returned to LA feeling a little...hmm...how do I say... LAZY? 

Fortunately, I had a few things in my pantry and fridge that I could easily put together.  I always have frozen shrimp from Trader Joe's in my freezer.  I also had lime, garlic, and spaghetti noodles.  This week I decided to use those ingredients to make garlic shrimp with spaghetti noodles.  All I did was heat up olive oil in a pan with thinly sliced garlic and chili flakes.  Once the olive oil started to sizzle, I added the shrimp, salt, pepper, butter, and some lime juice (normally, I would use lemon but I already had lime in my fridge).  Then I ate it with spaghetti noodles to scoop up all of the garlic sauce.  Sometimes as an alternative to pasta, I make this same dish but serve it over quinoa.  If I had tomatoes on hand, I would also add a few small diced tomatoes into the pan as well.  Easy and delicious!

Another dish that I made this week was the simple Italian dish Cacio e Pepe.  The only thing I needed to pick up from the store was cheese.  All this dish requires is salt, pepper, grated parmesan and pecorino cheese, butter, olive oil, and spaghetti.  Pretty simple, right? 

Of course, if I really had nothing in my fridge and I was feeling super lazy, I would probably resort to eating a Cup of Noodles (which I always have on hand because you never know when you might be starving, especially late at night) or rice with a fried/boiled egg and soy sauce.  Don't judge.  What is your go-to lazy dish?

Cacio e Pepe