Last month, I absolutely managed to slip my Recipe of the Month in under the twine by means of attempting new cucumber recipes in the final week of August. This month, I've swung to the other excessive, trying out a present day recipe in the very first week of September. This wasn't with the useful resource of layout; it is surely that final night time, Brian asked me what I felt like having for dinner, and what popped into my mind became some form of seafood tacos. And because we did not have the factors accessible to make our fashionable fish tacos, which are topped with a cabbage-tomato slaw, we decided to check.
We knew we had about 1/2 a pound of shrimp inside the freezer, the final of a batch we might sold at the same time as there was a exceptional sale at a New Brunswick grocery store. We also had a bag of purple onions we'd certainly picked up at H-Mart, and there had been a few green peppers on the Jimmy Nardello pepper vegetation in the lawn. I advised that if we sauteed these styles of elements up together, we could serve it up on tortillas.
Originally I perception we must virtually season it with a number one chili powder, but then Brian remembered that we occurred to have a bottle of Northwoods Seasoning from Penzey's Spices within the cabinet. This mixture, consistent with the label, contains
Since shrimp cooks quickly, the whole dish didn't take long at all to put together. Brian just sauteed the shrimp, peppers, and onions together in a skillet with a dash or two of the Northwoods Seasoning, heated up a few flour tortillas, and served up some lettuce leaves and Sun Gold tomatoes on the side. And this improvised recipe, though very simple, turned out to be quite satisfying. Of course, it's hard to go too wrong by frying up shrimp, onions, and peppers in the same pan, but the spice blend really did enhance the mix quite well. Brian had applied it a bit sparingly in the pan because he wasn't too sure about it, but once we'd tasted it, we both started sprinkling more on straight from the jar. In fact, we both liked it was enough that we flipped entirely from wondering how we'd manage to use it up to wondering whether we should buy another bottle when this one runs out. Which, I assume, is what Penzey's was hoping would happen when they gave us the sample in the first place.
Now, admittedly, this "Recipe of the Month" isn't much of a recipe, since all we did was throw what we had on hand into a pan. And you could argue it's not really a veggie dish, even though it has plenty of veggies in it, because it wouldn't really work without the shrimp. So I may end up choosing a second Recipe of the Month for September, one that's a little more veggie-centric. But in the meantime, I thought this simple dish was good enough to be worth sharing.
