First up - Spicy Shrimp Casserole.
My goal was to cook a large dish so that I could have a little something to take for lunch every day to work (I'm trying to work on number 32 over there). I also knew I needed to get started on these main dish recipes or I'll never make it through this cookbook. Paula Deen, being right there on the water in Savannah, loves her seafood, so this one seemed pretty simple for my first seafood dish.
Now, once I got started, I realized that "casserole" is a very generous, all-encompassing kind of word. And I've eaten a lot of casseroles in my life. Some people don't like them -- everything for your meal kinda lumped together in one dish, but they really are very efficient and practical meals, and I have no aversion to them.
This one, however.....not a winner. It's basically like you're making a shrimp pasta dish with a cheese sauce....and calling it a casserole. And honestly, it didn't have a ton of flavor. By Friday at lunch I was glad to be eating the last of it. Five days in a row of anything can be a little much, but when you aren't crazy about it, it makes it that much more difficult.
Without further ado, I present the before:
and after:
Eh. Wouldn't recommend it.
To redeem this disappointment, I also made Broccoli Salad to take to my Community Group's potluck dinner on Tuesday. It's very very similar to the recipe my mom uses for hers, and is my MOST preferred way to eat broccoli. Let's just say the leftovers I brought home went fast:
I highly recommend this recipe, although I did omit the tomatoes. Mainly because I was rushing to get this ready for CG, but also because they didn't sound good to me in this salad.
Nobody makes broccoli kind of unhealthy like we Southerners do. Recipe here.
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