Sunday, December 9, 2012

Quick and Easy Dinner

This is one of my favorite go-to recipes for a quick, easy dinner: Stir Fried Sesame Shrimp and Spinach. No pictures, because I was hungry. It's easily adaptable for one person; I'll take one serving of frozen shrimp and then enough spinach to fill the frying pan that I'm using. It will cook down. I like to keep frozen shrimp on hand (not pre-cooked, preferably peeled by EZ peel is also fine) because they cook quickly and they're easy to prepare. It doesn't seem like a pantry staple, but there have been numerous nights where I'll just take out some frozen shrimp and whip something up. Even if I don't take them out to defrost, if I run some hot water over it takes care of it. I don't use ginger with it, since I use a ginger infused stir-fry oil, but if I have some I'll toss it in. I also don't put the chili flakes in, since I'm not a huge fan of spicy food. It's good plain, but also good with rice, which you can just make in the rice cooker. Today I added some broccoli to up the veggie content, which I got from the new Brookline winter Farmer's Market.