Recipe: Angel Hair Pasta & Shrimp
Since I've been fairly motivated to cook/meal plan lately, I made myself a new goal to try out two new recipes a week. Beth at Just Me and My Life posted this recipe a couple days ago, and I decided to give it a try!
Servings: 4 • Serving Size: 1 large bowl • Calories: 388 • Points: 6.75 pts
What You'll Need:
1 bunch asparagus, tough ends removed, quartered
1 bunch asparagus, tough ends removed, quartered
1 tbsp olive oil
6-8 ripe plum tomatoes, diced (I used grape tomatoes)
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
1 lb large shrimp, peeled and deviened
1/2 cup fat free chicken broth
1/2 cup white wine
Salt and fresh pepper
1/2 tsp herbs de Provence (or you can use your favorite herbs)
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (gives it a little kick)
8 oz angel hair pasta, high fiber or low carb
Ingredients minus tomatoes (forgot them in fridge ;)
How to make it:
Heat a large skillet on high heat. Season shrimp with salt and pepper. When skillet is hot, spray with oil and add shrimp. Cook shrimp about 2 minutes in each side until almost cooked through and remove from the pan. Set aside. Reduce skillet heat to medium, add olive oil and garlic and sauté until golden, careful not to burn. Add tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. Simmer about 4 minutes. Add white wine and broth and stir. Add asparagus, salt, pepper and herbs. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes on medium low heat.
While sauce is simmering, boil salted water and cook pasta until desired tenderness. Drain when done.
After sauce simmers 10 minutes, add shrimp to sauce to finish cooking, about 1 minutes (Do not overcook or shrimp will get tough). Add pasta to the sauce and toss well. Divide equally in 4 bowls and top with a good grated cheese.
The final product! Mmm
It was a little time consuming and messy but worth it. The flavor and mix of ingredients was perfect, there could have been a little more 'sauce' but that was probably user error ;) Awaiting Hub's seal of approval. *Update- he loved it!*
Okay, I deserve a dessert now :)
Loving Hair clips
Hairclips. Lovely little hairclips. They are the odd socks of the accessory world. I spend ages trying to find pairs of clips (or any clip!). It's got to the point where I do a bulk clip shop every now and then just to keep Cappers and The Badoo suitably decorated. Do you like these little Pac Man ghosts? As a child of the eighties, I couldn't go past them.
The above gorgeous little item is at Shortcake Scraps.
And this one at Sweet and Sassy (there's that bird thing again!)
A couple of sweeties from ThELaUgHyGiRaFfY
These are from Sweet and Chic Bowtique (loving the bows, not so loving the daggy store name...) What a good little model!
What are you loving right now?
wordless Wednesday
At My House
...Well it wasn't exactly at my house...but I'm rarely at my house so I hope I can still join in with 'at my work'
I am a full time nanny for 3 gorgeous children aged 7, 5 and 2. I was really looking forward to today as the oldest 2 were at school and we had no jobs to do so youngest and I had the whole day for exploring! My plan was a day in the New Farm Park which has only recently re-opened and we have been dying for a free day to go check it out! However I wake up this morning to...rain...park plan = FAIL!
My brain went instantly into panic mode...what am I going to do all day with a very hyperactive 2 year old...normally the day gets broken up with shopping or jobs or he has trips with his mum but today we were all free!
~ Thank goodness for my Blog community ~
Luckily last night I had been reading through, with delight, Buttons by Lou Lou's and her followers "At My House" Blogs. I went straight to the pantry and tried to find all the rice and pasta and bits and pieces I could get my hands on! As this was a last minute plan I had no time for dying any of the rice or pasta but I still think youngest had a ball!
...We had a selection of rice, pasta, paints, regular stamps and a sweet potato stamp...
...After preparing tonight's dinner I had the end of a sweet potato left over so I cut some jagged edges into it and we used it as a vegetable stamp...
... I found a broken car so once youngest had completed some painting I told him to drive his car through it ...
... car painting ...
So THANK YOU very much to the crafty mum bloggers out there!
You made our rainy day!
Check out Buttons by Lou Lou's "At My House" blogs here
x S.K.K x
Molly's first birthday
It was my darling niece Molly's first birthday on Sunday. I had the honor of making her Birthday cake.
I made and decorated a jungle themed cake to match our gift of a jungle themed child's bench which I hand painted and made a pretty cushion for; more of that coming later! In keeping with the jungle themed decorations the cake was made up of three gluten-free fruity layers, strawberry, banana and kiwi. The recipe and how to for the cake I will be sharing soon.
We all had the cutest day full of treasured memories!
Have a sweet day!
What's in your (labour) bag?
Just for fun, let's peek into one another's bags! ... our labour bag, that is.
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If you are pregnant, or have been pregnant, chances are you've read a billion books on pregnancy and labour (way less books, indeed, than you have read about actual motherhood -- but plenty of time for that... right?). The labour chapters are always lots of fun, but one of my favy bits is the packing checklist for when you go into labour.
Apparently, you need a lot of stuff to get you through labour. Here's a sample checklist, pilfered from bubhub.com.au. Desperate for a gold star the first time around, I took similar lists v seriously. For your benefit, I've marked those items I took to the hospital when I was in labour with Fern (in aqua) and those that I actually used (in orange).
- Hospital paperwork - registration card/ health record or similar yep
- Medicare card and/ or private health insurance card yep
- Birth plan yep. It never left my bag. To this day, no one but me has ever read it!
- Cardboard/ plastic folder to keep all your paperwork in
- Comfortable, old t-shirt yep. But ceased caring about modesty early in piece and ended up naked!
- Nightgown
- Warm socks yep
- Flat, slip on shoes or slippers yep
- Lollies to suck on yep - Chiccos. I did scoff a few of these!
- Snacks for you/ your birthing partner yep
- Drinks for you/ your birthing partner yep. A sports water bottle which I used throughout
- Books/ magazines
- Ipod or stereo yep
- Massage oil
- Face cloth/ face spray yep.
- Hairband to keep your hair out of your face um, yep.
- Lip balm yep
- Camera and/ or video camera yep, though it was the hospital staff who took the photos during and after my caesar. I didn't even know they had the camera til much later... when I discovered some v alarming pics of myself and my newborn!
- Extra clothes for your partner yep
- Phone card for public phones
- List of important phone numbers
- Change for parking, snacks etc
- Plastic bag for dirty clothes.
hmmm. Thats a whole lot of superfluous items! And I'm kinda wondering at what point anyone in active labour would read the latest Women's Day! Anyway.
This time around, I'm packing a little lighter:
The contents of my labour bag thus far, in case you are interested?
- One face flannel
- One water bottle
- My birthplan
- An old nighty
Minimalist, much? Of course, my in-stay hospital bag might be somewhat more hefty. Like, this time I have a mental note not to underestimate the amount of breast pads and (ahem) other type of pads I will need. But, 2 weeks out from my due date, these items and next month's unopened edition of Real Living are about the only things I've gotten around to putting inside my suitcase! Priorities, people!
Can I peek inside YOUR bag? What other trinkets have you included or will you include above and beyond 'the list'? What fun items never left your bag the first time around?
ps. Cross your fingers as I cross my legs these next 5 days... hubby is off to New Zealand for a work conference and I'm at home with Ferny, praying this baby stays put for at least another week! Have a lovely weekend!
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