Really Basic - Shrimp with Garlic

She Said:

Tonight, we made some simple shrimp - a recipe we got from Andrea Immer-Robinson's Pairings show. It's a Spanish dish, but really basic. And delicious!

Gambas Con Ajillo

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients:
1/4 cup olive oil
4 cloves garlic, smashed and chopped
1 lb. medium shrimp, peeled and deveined, thawed if frozen
Kosher salt and fresh black pepper
chopped parsley for garnish, optional

Instructions:

1. In a cast iron skillet, heat olive oil to medium/high.
2. Add garlic and cook stirring until garlic is fragrant.
3. Increase heat to high and add shrimp.Cook stirring until garlic is beginning to brown
and shrimp are cooked through.
4. Remove from heat, season with salt and pepper to taste and sprinkle with parsley if
using.

We didn't use the parsley, mostly because we don't happen to have any on hand at the moment. But it was just great. Try it - really easy and really yummy.

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He Said:

You know how, sometimes, when you get home from a long hard day in the mines and you're all hungry and yet too tired to make anything too elaborate but still wish that you could have something delicious and not the same old tuna fish sandwich even though you really do love a nice tuna fish sandwich every now and then but for right now you'd rather have something that seems a little more special?

Yeah, me too.

Fortunately, She and I are here to help. We had the easiest shrimp dinner last night that I have ever made. It took all of 10 minutes from start to finish. And was it good? Oh yeah. It was, as my friends in Belgium say, shrimp-tastic!

Actually, it might be Bolivia that they say that.