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Shrimp in a white wine and Pernod cream sauce. 11/5/18

Here is a quick and tasty dinner. There is quite a bit of delicate chopping but luckily my son is on hand to do most of it. This is a restaurant quality dish. The recipe follows the picture. The Mixture … Continue reading

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Shrimp biryani. 10/16/18

Originally this recipe for shrimp biryani was supposed to be made entirely in an Instant Pot. Since to use pressure cooking in cooking the shrimp needed jumbo shrimp and we only had smaller shrimp, we decide to cook the shrimp … Continue reading

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Mexican night. 10/7/18

Since we are going home on Tuesday, this will be my last post until Wednesday. We have scrubbed the kitchen sparkly and cleared all the decks of everything in anticipation of a photographer coming to take pictures so we can … Continue reading

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Shrimp scampi with spaghetti. 9/28/18

This dinner is so, so good. If I had paid for it in a restaurant I would have no complaints. I think the key here is to sauté the shrimp tails in the wine first to get extra flavor. While … Continue reading

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Shrimp tacos with spicy black beans. 8/9/18

Tasty shrimp tacos are on the menu tonight. The grocery store is lacking our regular salsa so we try a new brand which is too spicy and too thick for our liking. I put a bunch of it in our … Continue reading

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Shrimp with creamy mustard scampi sauce. 8/5/18

Does it sound like my shrimp sauce is conflicted?  That is because the last two times we had shrimp I froze the small amounts of sauce I had left over. Tonight they make a combo comeback as creamy mustard scampi … Continue reading

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Shrimp Scampi. 7/19/18

Tonight John is making a recipe from America’s Test Kitchen, shrimp scampi. In our house we have a division of labor when it comes to cooking. John is in charge of all red meat, poultry, fish, and shellfish. I am … Continue reading

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Shrimp with rice, chard, and corn 6/29/18

This is the same shrimp with saffron and Pernod that we made a few weeks ago. The recipe is here. https://dininglite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3781&action=edit We like the shrimp cooked this way and the sauce is great with rice and vegetables. Our sauce last … Continue reading

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Recipe: Shrimp with saffron Pernod sauce

Here is the recipe for the Shrimp in Saffron Pernod Sauce. We had this originally at the now defunct Kenwood Restaurant in California. We have made a few adjustments. I hope you like it as much as we do. Kenwood’s … Continue reading

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Pancakes and shrimp. 6/12/18

No doubt you are saying to yourself, is this like chicken and waffles? Interesting concept but this is what I made for the kids and what we adults ate for dinner. Two separate things. I got the pancake recipe from … Continue reading

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