Shrimp Fra Diavalo a la Cooking Light

I made this tonight for dinner.  We were so eager to eat it that I just didn’t get a picture.  But you don’t need a picture of my dish to believe me when I tell you, this was sooooooooo yummy!  I mean it was really light and fresh.  Not to mention quick to make and pretty cheap.  I feel good about cooking dinner with only 2 tablespoons of olive oil after last night’s kugel.  I will say that one could substitute a splash of dry white wine for the lemon juice in this recipe.  I kept the juice and added the wine for good measure and I think it was tasty.  Also, I added a lot of extra garlic.  Maybe you’ve noticed, I always use extra garlic.

 

Savory Vegetable Kugel

A few months ago The Fella and I were visiting my Cousin and her family for dinner.  My Cousin served a vegetable and potato kugel as a side dish.  Unbelievably, I had never had kugel before.  I fell in L-O-V-E with this kugel.  My cousin was so nonchalant.  Kugel was nothing special, an everyday dish in her mind.  But to me, a new delight had been discovered!  She shared her recipe with me which is really a recipe for potato kugel with vegetables substituting some of the potatoes.  I adapted her recipe to use sweet potatoes in place of white potatoes, but I kept the basic structure of her recipe the same.  I also did a little research on kugel and found that savory is not the traditional vibe for kugel.  Most kugels seem to be made with noodles and fruit.  I’m not sure how I feel about that.  I may have to taste a noodle kugel before I try making it myself.

 

New Camera!

Santa got me a new camera so pictures will look a whole lot better from here on out.  Also, I will (hopefully) be posting more often now.  Using the iphone camera was seriously bumming me out and may have affected my motivation to create new Whiteout posts.  But listen folks, this is a cheap camera so don’t go expecting too much.  O.K.?