Quick rainy day meal

During the summer most meals get cooked out on the grill, so when it's raining or simply too hot, it's a change of pace to try new recipes and cook a meal on the stove.

This weekend it started raining.... and raining and raining more. We needed it badly, but instead of the planned skewered shrimp on the grill, this recipe, found online, became dinner.

Venetian Shrimp with Polenta Recipe https://share.google/C0u1Tl2b57Y6BiIvS

yields 4 servings

Polenta

8 cups water

2 cups stone-ground plain white or yellow cornmeal

1 1/4 teaspoons fine sea salt

1 fresh bay leaf

Shrimp

3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced

1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper, plus more to taste

1/2 cup dry white wine

3/4 cup lower-sodium chicken stock

2 pounds peeled and deveined raw large wild-caught Gulf shrimp

2 teaspoons lemon zest

1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt

1/4 cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces

1/2 cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, divided

Polenta is simple to make, . It just takes a lot of stirring!

The worst thing you can do when preparing shrimp is over cooking them. Cook them quickly until they’re mostly pink, then toss in the butter and about half of the parsley to make a light sauce that tastes delicious with the polenta.

It's a quick and easy rainy day meal. Enjoy!

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A delicious 😋 recipe to try. Thank you for sharing.

It is a tasty meal!
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This food looks delicious! I've been craving shrimp for a long time; I'll see if I can buy some this week and make this recipe.

So good to hear from you, my friend!

Hi Melinda, I hope you are well. I enjoyed your recipe, sometimes it's important to try new things.
How did it taste?

I'm doing OK. I love polenta and you can't go wrong with shrimp!

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What a recipe you have there; I feel like picking my spoon and fork and do the needful 😂. Anyway, I'll add it to my collection; I will surely try my hands on this one. It's not only going to be delicious; it'll be nutritious too.

Thanks! I hope you enjoy it!
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Tell you, shrimp is my favorite seafood and food in general. The recipe will make you licking your fingers.

I like shrimp, but I think lobster wins as my favorite.

Sure, Lobster is also my favorite. The sauce is so tasty.

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Looks delicious. I love shrimp. In fact I went to a shrimp festival once in Louisiana. And that was before Forrest Gump came out lol but I have been to a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company a couple of times since. We had a great waiter once that kept peppering us with Forrest Gump trivia all through the meal 🙂

The closest I got was this bench in Savanah.

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The Forrest Gump Bench

Adapted from a bench located in Savannah's Forsyth Park, the benches used in filming the motion picture Forrest Gump were props. They were cast, like this bench, in fiberglass—with concrete legs—to make them lighter and easier to remove and store when not in use. This is one of several duplicate benches made from a single mold. This edition of the bench, cast from the same mold and in the same materials as all of those employed in the filming, is a gift to the City of Savannah from Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Many motion pictures have been filmed in Savannah, and the success of recent ones such as Forrest Gump and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, has had a noticeable impact on the tourism industry. This bench serves as a symbol of that powerful effect.

That's the one!

We could do with some rain here in Alsace it is parched and still boiling hot. Linda and I are leaving early as she cannot cope with the heat anymore.

Flying out of Zurich tomorrow. Natalie is going onwards with the kids.

I might try this recipe when I get home it looks tasty. 👍

I'm amazed Linda can function at all in the heat. I know my temperature range is extremely narrow before I turn into a turnip.

Safe travels home.

Thanks Mel, Linda is basically house bound at this point. This trip has shown that she has zero strength left. We had to buy her a walking frame on wheels just for her to stand up.
I'll get us home and hopefully she will feel a little better. Fingers crossed 🤞

I'm not far behind her. I can still transfer from my lift chair to my mobility scooter, but can't stand. I have a hydrolic toilet seat lift, and a hydrolic lift that my daughter uses to get me up off the floor when I fall.
I'm beginning to notice changes in vision. MS sucks.
You have your hands full. I'm sorry
Like me, this is not the way either of you expected to spend your retirement years.

There is something strange going on with our generation. I've never seen or heard of so many people with so many major illnesses.

Auto immune diseases seem to have come out of nowhere and affect so many people of our age. Most of Linda's friends have similar issues.

Linda also has lymphedema with swelling all over her. She found out from a nurse who pointed it out. Checking Linda's medical records it appears it was diagnosed in 2017 but nobody thought to tell her!

I was flabbergasted and she thought she was going mad with all the weight gains. It makes you want to scream.

Controversial opinion I know but I don't think all those nuclear bomb tests in the 50's 60's and onward did us much good?

Definitely not the retirement we expected. It's 3.38 a.m. and I'm wide awake. I've got to make that flight tomorrow and get her safely home.

Your daughter is a godsend as is ours. What would we do without them. 😘

You have definitely given me something to think about. I was considering the lack of sunlight and vitamin D in our long Winters, the hepatitis B vaccine that I received in a group of travel shots, but I actually had never thought about the nuclear testing. That would certainly make sense.

Hope you are getting settled in at home and both of you are feeling more comfortable.

Unfortunately our flight got cancelled so we are staying overnight at the radisson blu by the airport. Sod's law is in full effect.

I've stayed overnight at a hotel at the Zurich airport... But by choice of convenience, not necessity.

Travel these days, canceled flights and all, almost make me ok with being housebound. 😕

Looks tasty, excelente food

This looks very delicious. I think this shrimp recipe will also be nice with steamed rice. I'd like to try the polenta. I never cooked polenta before nor tried eating it. I'm curious. Thank you very much for sharing.🤗✨

Hello, thanks for sharing the recipe. Everything looks delicious.

Shrimp and olive oil, an ideal dish for me. Actually my Dietitian recommended I shift my taste into more a Mediterranean style.

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Happy start to the week, Melinda! I loved reading that you often grill in the summer—it sounds great. As you know, we live in an eternal summer here, so we don't change up our routines much—or at least those of us who don't cook very often, like me 😅 I’ve actually been making shrimp since last month; I’d never cooked them before, so these tips are perfect for me, since I do spend a lot of time in the kitchen. I’ll try cooking them quickly and adding a sauce like this sometime this week. Sending you a big hug! 🙏


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Omg i love shrimp it looks so delicious

Hi @melinda010100

I see that you explain the preparation technique in detail—that’s great for recipes.

Have a wonderful week!

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