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EASY INDOOR SHRIMP BOIL


Shrimp Boil

THE EASIEST SHRIMP BOIL YOU WILL EVER MAKE

 

I love making easy yet delicious meals but what I love even more is when these meals are a social thing.  What I mean by this is when everyone comes to the table to catch up and enjoy each other’s company around a great meal.  

When my hubby graduated from his residency, I  had a shrimp and lobster boil for his classmates and their families.  Since then, we have fallen in love with all kinds of boils – Crawfish, lobster, shrimp, my family loves them all.  Several years ago during winter I was craving a good shrimp boil but the weather wasn’t suited to cook outdoors.  So I took the same concept, simplified it and brought it indoors.  

We still have a summer outdoor boil, which is roughly during Crawfish season, but with this recipe we can substitute shrimp or lobster all year round.  Try this with your family.  It’s a great way to get everyone together!  

 

xo

 

 

 

Shrimp Boil
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INDOOR SHRIMP BOIL

Course: Main Course
Servings: 5

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs Small potatoes - fingerlings or steamables
  • 12 Corn frozen or fresh
  • 2-3 lbs Sausage
  • 2-3 lbs Shrimp 21/25 de-veined
  • 1 stick of butter
  • 1 - 2 T garlic minced
  • 3-5 T Old Bay Seasoning

Instructions

  • Steam potatoes, set aside
  • Fill two large pots with water & bring to a boil
  • In one pot add the corn & sausage & boil for 15 minutes, then set aside
  • In the second pot of boiling water add the shrimp and boil for 3-5 minutes, then set aside
  • Clean out one pot then return to stove on medium high heat
  • Add butter and 1 - 2 T of minced garlic
  • Add shrimp to butter & garlic mix
  • Add Old bay to taste approximately 3-5 T
  • Add steamed potatoes, corn & sausage to the shrimp & butter mixture & toss quickly
  • Serve on brown butcher paper or in a big serving tray
  • Everyone grabs what they want to eat.

Notes

Note: Serve with mustard to dip your sausage & potatoes

 

HAMBURGER MACARONI

Hamburger_macaroni

BACKSTORY

My elementary school had a cafeteria where lunches were made from scratch by a lady named Mrs. Fo (pronounced F-oh) and her staff. There were dishes she made that I loved and then there were others that I was forced to eat because the teachers watched us.
 
If we didn’t eat enough of our food and tried to escape, they would turn us back around and insist we not waste food. There was a table by the exit were all the kids who didn’t eat enough would be seated because they got caught. On the days I loved the food, I would look back and feel bad for the kids sitting there.
 
I remember vividly choking down food by drinking my milk with it to mask the taste. Sounds so ridiculous now but that trick worked. Another thing I remember was I hated milk but the only way you could get juice was with a Doctors note and I most definitely didn’t have one of those.
 
One of the dishes I didn’t love in elementary was called Hamburger Macaroni. I don’t exactly know why I disliked it to be honest. Ironically, I love the heck out of it now. I remember learning a trick from my friend Eric B, he would stuff the food in his milk carton when the teacher wasn’t looking. I took that trick and ran with it. Every time we had Hamburger Macaroni half of mine went into my milk carton because they didn’t check how much milk you drank. Ahhh to be young and rascal again.
 

FAST FORWARD

 
Anyhow, as I got older and started cooking for my family, I started to make lists of things my kids might like to eat. I pulled that Hamburger Macaroni dish from my memories and tested it out on them. Kids love Mac n Cheese. Why wouldn’t they love this? Which i’m guessing is what Mrs. Fo thought as well.
 
Surprisingly all of my kids loved it growing up over a mound of rice because rice is a staple in our home. As young adults, they tolerate it and roll their eyes when they see what’s on the menu. I can only get away with making this once a month or else my hubby and I are the only ones eating it.
 
It’s one of my favorite Lazy Girl dishes because it’s easy and nostalgic. Do you have foods from your childhood that you hated then but love now? This is mine & here’s the recipe below:
 
xo
 
 
 
Hamburger_macaroni
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Hamburger Macaroni

Ingredients

  • 1 tray of ground beef
  • 1 box of Mac n Cheese any brand
  • 1 small can of tomato sauce
  • 1 T garlic salt
  • 1 T onion powder
  • S & P to taste

Instructions

  • Fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil
  • Prepare the macaroni according to directions on the box
  • Reserve the cheese packet on the side
  • When macaroni is done, strain and set aside
  • In the same pot you boiled the macaroni in, brown the ground beef
  • Season with garlic salt, onion powder and salt & pepper
  • When ground beef is browned add the cooked macaroni, sauce packet and tomato sauce
  • Simmer 5 minutes
  • Serve over rice, rolls or a salad
 

19th HOLE ENERGY BARS

19th hole energy bars

THE BACKSTORY 

Let me share with you a little story with you about my very first energy bars.  When I was in elementary, my paternal grandma use to pick me up from school. We’d often end up at the 19th hole which is a golfers term for the clubhouse. The clubhouse was where my grams and her lady friends would hang out after their round. They would eat, drink and talk story. My grams was a scratch golfer and she belonged to the Makalena woman’s club that met at least once a week. In Hawaii when you meet older people, out of respect, they automatically become your aunty or uncle.
 
I had a lot of aunties at the 19th hole.
 
I’m pretty sure my grams would just be finished with her round of golf, run by to pick me up from school then we’d head back to the 19th hole. This is where I would do my homework, ate whatever snacks I wanted and load up on sugary soda. This is where I learned about Energy bars.
 
One of my golf aunties would carry energy bars in her golf bag to keep her satiated during her round. There was this one time when she shared one of them with me and that was all it took. From that point on, my grams would pay that aunty to make these energy bars for me.
 

PRESENT DAY 

When the Air Force PCS’d us from Hawaii, I would call my grams for recipes because I missed the food. To put it into context, this was back when email had just started. My grams wasn’t great at technology but she knew how to email. She got the recipe for the energy bars that I loved so much as a child and emailed it to me. She told me I would need the energy I got from eating these bars to keep up with my 3 kids.
 
Over the years, she would email me other recipes which I’ll be sharing in the near future. My grams passed away in 2004 after complications from heart surgery. She was 75.
 
A few years ago, when cleaning out my email, I found the recipes she sent.  I got so choked up, I could hardly read them. I printed out the emails and lovingly put them in my recipe binder. I now make these energy bars for my own kids and have added a few healthy elements to them. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
 
xo

 

 

Print Recipe

19th HOLE ENERGY BARS

Ingredients

  • 1/2 stick of butter
  • 1 bag of mini marshmallows
  • 2 cups of rice crispy cereal
  • 1 cup quick cook oats
  • 1/2 cup of peanut butter or almond butter
  • 1/4 cup chia seeds
  • 1/4 cup flax seeds
  • 1/4 cup sunflower seeds de-shelled
  • 1/4 cup cranberries

Instructions

  • Grease 9x13 pan
  • In a pot on low heat - melt butter, marshmallow and peanut butter
  • When first 3 ingredients are melted, add the remaining ingredients & mix thoroughly
  • Transfer mixture to greased pan and pat till level
  • Allow to cool 15-20 minutes
  • Cut into squares and wrap in waxed paper
 

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