Making life easier in the New Year

Last night I had a great conversation about dinner and feeding a family quickly with my dear friend, Faith, who is a foodie from way back. She does just have dinner, she will have a little pan seared shrimp in a little butter and olive oil finished with some capers and fresh lemon juice. On the side she might have some lightly sauteed broccoli rabe. She is a single person and does not eat leftovers so we were talking about cooking fresh every day, a topic we have been talking about for four or five years. Her father is now living alone and has come up against the same thing so many of our customers have dealt with....sometimes we don't want to make dinner. DinnerSmith will be in her fathers future, even though at 90, he does have time to make dinner, just not always the inclination.

We also talked about shrimp and we agree. Everyone should have a good sized bag of shrimp in their freezer. There are tons of ways to make a fast pasta and shrimp dish. Most people love shrimp and it does not take a lot of them into make a good meal. Earlier I mentioned Faith's preference for lemon and capers with shrimp. I am partial to a little sauteed garlic and onion with butter and olive oil tossed with linguine. My dad makes a Scampi which includes what I did and then he adds a little tomato sauce.

So my recommendation for the New Year is buy a bag of frozen shrimp. When you run out of DinnerSmith meals, you won't go hungry.

Mary

Oh, yeah, you can still get a bag of shrimp from us...