Guess what happens when you spend your whole weekend celebrating birthdays:
You fail to make a menu for Monday. Â Or go grocery shopping. Â Or you know, any of the usual weekend activities.
I had a great weekend hanging out with Jeff, putzing with puzzles, going to a wedding fair, throwing a birthday bash for my niece… We even cleaned house and managed to do some laundry! Â We utterly failed, though, to ponder this week’s eats or to make a menu. Â Tonight’s dinner was a sad affair… I called Jeff on my way home and he listed off things that we had in the fridge: mixed fruits, left over veggie tray, bell peppers, cucumbers, sweet corn… Â And in the freezer: mixed veg, shrimp, chocolate chips, froyo.
Hm.
We didn’t even have a bagged meal to fall back on and we didn’t want to get fast food, so we  just assembled the basics – a ‘meat’, a side, and a veggie:
Yep. Â Tonight’s dinner was a handful of shrimp and two ears of corn. Â I figure one served as a side and the other as a veggie =P
The shrimp was actually really good. Â If you’re ever in a pinch and you’ve got pre-cooked frozen shrimp, it’s really easy to make it tasty:
Quick Shrimp:
- pre-cooked, frozen shrimp
- butter
- minced garlic
- lime juice
1) Thaw shrimp per package instructions–best to run it under cold water. Pull off the tails while you’re at it.
2) Put 1 Tbls of butter and 1 (heaping) Tbls of minced garlic (ours was the jarred variety tonight) into a frying pan
3) Add the thawed shrimp and cook just a couple minutes until heated through–they will start to curl smaller, but you don’t want to *over* cook shrimp, then it just gets rubbery.
Serve with some of the garlic butter if desired, sprinkle some lime juice over the top. Â BBQ Sauce is optional, but if you go for it–Sweet Baby Ray’s is awesome.
The corn was just corn, but my grandma taught me the trick to getting a good ear of sweetcorn–take your fingernail and press it against a kernel until it bursts. Â If it pops like over-inflated bubble wrap and squirts juice at you, you’re good! Â If it just deflates, try another ear.