It' s Mother's Day and I was cleaning off our kitchen billboard and found this photo of Shrimp Portofino at Romano's Macaroni GrillIt's simple to make and delightfully complex and nurturing.
Since I am an unemployed single Lake Oswego Mom, I want this Mother's Day dinner but to be where my son Aidan and I make this wonderful dish from scratch at home.
We have these wonderfully huge Prawns from Uwajimaya's, our favorite Asian market. New Season's Market has Organic cream on special this week for $2.50/pint. If you don't live near a Uwajimaya's or New Season's Market, Trader Joes has good frugally prices on all these ingredients:
1 - 1/2 lb of Prawns
1/2 cup of cream
1/4 cup of roasted pine nuts
1 bunch of fresh spinach (or 1 small bag of salad spinach)
1 lb of Angel Hair pasta
1/2 cup mushrooms - sliced
1 Tbs Extra Virgin Kalamata Olive Oil - or butter
1/2 tsp of dried basil
1/4 cup of white wine
1 tsp garlic paste
1 cup of grated Parmesan cheese.
1 Tbs capers
1) Saute Prawns in garlic and butter until the slightly pink.
2) Brown sliced mushrooms in butter.
3) Start a large pasta pot of water boiling on high heat.
4) In a small saucepan, combine the wine and cream. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Turn down the heat to medium low. Add the Parmesan cheese. Stir occasionally. Add the capers.
5) When the water in the pasta pot comes to a boil, add Angel Hair pasta, stir until the pasta is completely submerged under the boiling water. Turn the heat down to medium. Cook only for 3 minutes.
6) Wash and drain the spinach.
7) Test one strand of Angel Hair pasta to taste for doneness. Strain pasta when done.
8) In the saute pan, add pine nuts and toast until slightly brown, stirring occasionally for 2 minutes.
9) Add the spinach, cream and wine mixture to the pine nuts. Cook on a medium heat for 2 minutes, until spinach is slightly wilted.
10) Add the Prawns and stir until coated with the sauce. Turn off the heat, and remove from stove.
10) Pour the pasta into a big pasta bowl. Sprinkle the basil on the Angel Hair and toss lightly.
11) Place the pasta into individual pasta bowls.
12) Spoon the Prawns and cream sauce over the pasta and serve.
Serves 4
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2 comments:
This would have been really good. But no mom should have to cook on Mother's Day. She should be taken to a good restaurant like Taco Bell or KFC ;)
This would have been excellent to have for dinner; but no mom should have to cook on Mother's Day. Sh should be taken to a fine restaurant -- like Taco Bell or KFC ;)
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