Another Winner in the Kitchen!

I'm kind a big deal in the kitchen...

I can really follow a recipe well- especially when there are step by step instructions with PICTURES! I seriously never learned how to cook until N was born almost 8 months ago. And even then I didn't really start until DH went back to work a month later. So I've only been cooking for 7 months and I'm getting pretty good. Okay, okay I follow a recipe well. Whatever. I like to say I'm a pretty good cook.

Anyway... tonight I made this. OMG sooo yummy. The only time consuming part of this recipe is getting it prepped, cutting the corn, zuchinni, garlic and tomatoes, and peeling the shrimp. Other than that its completely easy-peasy. I used about a 1/2 lb of shrimp (I try to stretch a 2 lb bag of shrimp into at least 3-4 meals... thats my way of budgeting), a little more corn (corn was on sale this week 4 for a dollar... I couldn't bring myself to just buy two), and then threw in a pinch of cayenne and a bunch of fresh basil in the end.



Okay the basil wasn't fresh. It was this tube kind that you get in the produce section that I bought once a few weeks ago and now will never go without a tube of basil and a tube of cilantro in my fridge. It tastes just like fresh and lasts a LOT longer. Don't you hate when cilantro goes bad in your fridge after just one meal? Even worse is having to chop up all that cilantro. But I digress...

Wow! This is my new favorite summer meal- so light and fresh. I actually like the extra corn in it. It kind of tricks me into thinking its rice or some kind of carb. I can't wait to make this again soon... like tomorrow.