This isn't a dish from my nationality but it's one of my favorite recipes. As a novice cook, I like that it's easy, looks appealing, is filling and pretty healthy too. Raman noodles, vegetable broth, corn, blanched spinach, shallots, tofu, egg. Super easy! This is my Raman Noodle dish:
Darlin': Please share! Or I'm going to have to go to the kitchen and attempt to emmulate and improvise much as they do on that cooking show, Chopped! Care to be a judge/panelist?
I'll even share the recipe! Nothing this good should go to the grave and never be created again:
Shrimp and Grits
2 cups water
2 chicken bouillon cubes or 2 tsp chicken bouillon granules
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup quick grits
1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined, without tails
cajun seasoning
4 slices thick cut bacon
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions
1 garlic clove, minced
Arrange bacon on a cooling rack (like for cookies) and set the rack on a sheet pan (something with a lip all the way around). Place the bacon in a cold oven, then turn the oven on to 400 degrees F. Cook the bacon for 15 mins on each side, or until done. Chop into 4 slices into bite-sized pieces and reserve the bacon grease from the bottom of the pan.
In a medium saucepan, bring water, bouillon, butter and grits to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 7 mins, until grits and thickened and tender. Remove from heat and stir in cheese.
Add 1-2 tablespoons of the bacon grease to a medium skillet over medium high heat. Season the shrimp with plenty of cajun seasoning. Add the shrimp to the skillet and cook until the shrimp turn pink, about 1 minute per side. Lower the heat to medium and add the bacon scallions, garlic, and squeeze in some lemon juice. Cook for another 1-2 minutes until the garlic and scallions are softened and the shrimp are done.
Serve the grits in bowl and top with the shrimp. Enjoy!
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~ A woman was sipping on a glass of wine, while sitting on the patio with her husband. She says, "I love you so much, I don't know how I could ever live without you". Her husband asks, "Is that you or the wine talking?"...She replies, "It's me ... talking to the wine.
Darlin': Please share! Or I'm going to have to go to the kitchen and attempt to emmulate and improvise much as they do on that cooking show, Chopped! Care to be a judge/panelist?
That stuff looks scrumptious!
I love "Chopped." It's so much fun to watch them invent something so fast!
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~~~ SW ~~~
~ A woman was sipping on a glass of wine, while sitting on the patio with her husband. She says, "I love you so much, I don't know how I could ever live without you". Her husband asks, "Is that you or the wine talking?"...She replies, "It's me ... talking to the wine.
I'll even share the recipe! Nothing this good should go to the grave and never be created again:
Shrimp and Grits
2 cups water
2 chicken bouillon cubes or 2 tsp chicken bouillon granules
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup quick grits
1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined, without tails
cajun seasoning
4 slices thick cut bacon
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions
1 garlic clove, minced
Arrange bacon on a cooling rack (like for cookies) and set the rack on a sheet pan (something with a lip all the way around). Place the bacon in a cold oven, then turn the oven on to 400 degrees F. Cook the bacon for 15 mins on each side, or until done. Chop into 4 slices into bite-sized pieces and reserve the bacon grease from the bottom of the pan.
In a medium saucepan, bring water, bouillon, butter and grits to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 7 mins, until grits and thickened and tender. Remove from heat and stir in cheese.
Add 1-2 tablespoons of the bacon grease to a medium skillet over medium high heat. Season the shrimp with plenty of cajun seasoning. Add the shrimp to the skillet and cook until the shrimp turn pink, about 1 minute per side. Lower the heat to medium and add the bacon scallions, garlic, and squeeze in some lemon juice. Cook for another 1-2 minutes until the garlic and scallions are softened and the shrimp are done.
Serve the grits in bowl and top with the shrimp. Enjoy!
OK Southern! FedEx'em to me! Now! I might get them by lunchtime!
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~~~ SW ~~~
~ A woman was sipping on a glass of wine, while sitting on the patio with her husband. She says, "I love you so much, I don't know how I could ever live without you". Her husband asks, "Is that you or the wine talking?"...She replies, "It's me ... talking to the wine.
SW - is that Central Grocery's recipe?? We make theirs all the time - I don't have it to memory but it sounds awfully close - of course there aren't that many variations on shrimp and grits.... Yummy!!!
I've got really good recipes for etouffee, gumbo, and jambalaya if any one wants them I'll be happy to post but I don't have them in my head to do it right now.
Others I have - Italian meat balls (the story is that they are from a little old Italian butcher in New Jersey where my mother grew up - they're fantastic). A really good beef stroganoff recipe. I'll keep thinking... Ask if you want the actual recipes - more than happy to post but JB is going to have to post that sauce recipe!!
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~~~ SW ~~~
~ A woman was sipping on a glass of wine, while sitting on the patio with her husband. She says, "I love you so much, I don't know how I could ever live without you". Her husband asks, "Is that you or the wine talking?"...She replies, "It's me ... talking to the wine.
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I would if I could!! I love Shrimp N Grits!
