Spanish Rice
8:27 PMIt's Monday and I was the first one home from work, which means dinner duty. Because the OCD was in high gear today, I knew I was going to be home first and so called The Beloved at work to ask what he wanted to eat. Shrimp and chorizo and yellow rice. Since I had never actually made this dish before, I got to make it up as I went along. It was actually quite tasty, extremely easy, involved very little cleanup and has left us with plenty of leftovers, so I won't have to cook tomorrow night, either--unless Resident Sibling clears us out before then.
Here's what you need:
- Chorizo (I used one package containing two sausage)
- 1 onion
- 1 bell pepper (I used red, only because the green ones looked icky at the supermarket today)
- 2 packages Vigo Yellow Rice (really, if there are only two of you, one package would probably be sufficient, but The Beloved has always made Spanish rice dishes with the "family sized" package, or 2 regular-sized packages)
- 2 servings of shrimp--cleaned, deveined, etc. (I used 10 large ready-to-use frozen shrimp)
- Decorative peas
Chop up the chorizo, onion and bell pepper. Saute in a frying pan until the onions are soft and mostly translucent.
Serve up and use decorative peas as necessary.
I love dishes like this because they use only one pan. Clean-up is a snap, which leaves more time for knitting.
Unfortunately, I had to spend a lot of time picking up before I could sit down and knit. The baby cardigan is still languishing:
And yarn porn as promised:
To leave you all on a happier note, ask yourself if life gets any better than this:
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