Picspam: Good Friday meal

[a_boleyn]

Many Catholics fast (only one full meal) or, at least, abstain (no meat), on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday even if they don't during Lent.

I'm pretty much a lapsed Catholic, but today's supper paid tribute to that practice.

Garlic shrimp over fettuccine

Comments

[delphipsmith]

Oh my, so much shrimpy goodness! It's hard to go wrong with garlic, shrimp and pasta, isn't it?

One of my favorite summer recipes is a cold salad with shrimp, white beans, basil, tomato and red onion.

[a_boleyn]

I've never had shrimp and beans together. Sounds interesting.

[delphipsmith]

I had never either, until this, but it's lovely -- light and crisp and fresh. And so easy!

2 cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
1 lb small cooked shrimp (frozen precooked and thawed works great)
1 small can diced tomatoes or (better) 2 small tomatoes, chopped
1/2 red onion, diced
juice from 1/2 lemon
1 T olive oil
1 bunch fresh basil, chopped
salt, fresh-ground pepper, parsley to taste

Mix everything together and refrigerate covered for at least a couple of hours for flavors to meld. (Original recipe says "let sit for one hour at room temp" but not everyone is ok with seafood sitting out, so use your own judgment there.) This is excellent on a hot summer afternoon, especially with crusty bread and some white wine :)

[a_boleyn]

Thank you. I'm going to save it for the future. :)

[spikesgirl58]

Looks fabulous - there's just something so satisfying about shrimp. If you want something that will blow the socks off your guests, go with the large version and skewer them on whole vanilla beana, then cook. I like to serve it with a light white vanilla sauce.

This looks almost too lovely to eat, but I will!

[a_boleyn]

I think I've heard of that. Sounds like a lovely way to flavour the shrimp. I like shrimp a lot too. I had a late lunch (2pm) of this dish and then finished the rest of it at around 8pm. :)

[spikesgirl58]

Mmm, that sounds lovely. Perhaps I need to put shrimp on the next for next week.

[a_boleyn]

I had picked up a bag of those large cooked shrimp - 340 gm for $5.99. Not a great price, cause I could eat the whole thing by myself at one sitting, but I thought I'd splurge on Good Friday.