Hey, folks! Happy Tasty Tuesday to you!
Today we’re making an orzo salad with coconut-lime shrimp. Ready?
Ingredients:
1 cup orzo
Shrimp – as much as you like, I used about 20 ea (extra large) – pre-cooked and deveined
1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/2 cup black pitted olives, sliced
A bunch of fresh basil, chopped
1/2 cup black beans, rinsed and drained
Tomatoes, diced – I used about 1/2 cup of diced fresh tomatoes my neighbor gave me (yum yum)
2-3 tbsp pine nuts, roasted
Juice of 1/2 lime
3 tbsp. coconut oil
Salt, pepper and bay seasoning to taste.
Instructions:
Cook Orzo according to package instructions. I used Barilla – it took 9 minutes to cook “al dante”.
Roast the pine nuts, set aside to cool.
Season shrimp with salt, pepper, bay seasoning and lime juice, set aside.
Combine black beans, tomatoes, pine nuts and olives in a big salad bowl.
Melt coconut butter in a big pan, add shrimp and sauté for 3-4 minutes
Add almond milk and sauté for another couple minutes.
Add cooled orzo to the salad bawl and mix well.
Pour shrimp and sauce from the pan over the orzo mix.
Garnish with basil.
Enjoy!
Note for WW Members: makes 4 servings @ 9 pps each.
On an unrelated subject:
I had myself a super stressful Monday…
Well, first of all, my husband left for Hong Kong on Monday morning. All the 16 hours of his flight I was stressed out because he pretty much was going into the eye of Typhoon Usagi. Thank God he landed safely and it is “just a little cloudy there” according to him.
In the other part of the world here in PA somebody else’s landing was not as safe… Just as I was done roasting pine nuts for the salad above, turned off the stove and was standing there sautéing the shrimp, my kitty landed on the stove part I just turned off…. Burnt his front left paw pad…Not to the bone but pretty bad.
It was 6:58 pm and I freaked out like you’re not gonna believe it. I called our vet and the lady at the front desk there got us in first thing this morning. Meanwhile I was stuck for the night with the kitty who had burnt his paw. I grabbed an ice pack, wrapped it in a paper towel and so kitty and I cuddled for a bit trying to keep his paws on the ice pack.
My little trooper didn’t make a sound – not when it happened, not afterwards, not last night…
This morning we got to the hospital before they were even open (after I caught the limping kitty trying to get away from me chasing him around the house with a carrier).
Yep, that’s our name on the welcome board there – Vodka (don’t ask).
The vet gave us some pain killers, shaved the hair off of his paw, put some ointment on and gave us a numbing disinfecting spray and more pain killers to use at home. Going back on Friday for follow up…
Pretty hellish day, huh?
How was your Monday?
What was your worst day ever?
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