So, I’ve been pretty lax on cooking lately. And when I have cooked, it’s been the staples – turkey burgers, meatloaf, baked chicken, etc.

Well, lately, I’ve been utilizing the awesomeness that is frozen shrimp. Our grocery store has had frozen shrimp on sale recently, so we like to buy the 2-pound bags of large shrimp. I get two meals out of that and it’s a good lean meat.

I also have finally broken in my new Pampered Chef cookbook. Some of the recipes aren’t that appealing to me, or they are too calorie-heavy, but there are still some really good ones in there.

The first one, which I made last week, was grilled shrimp with lemon orzo. I had orzo pasta in my pantry for a while and just didn’t see a recipe I liked. So I decided to make this recipe. It was pretty easy and I thought it all tasted really good.

Yum! Next time, I’ll go easier on the lemon juice, as this was pretty lemon-y. But still very good. The best part? It was a one-pot meal. I love that!

Yesterday (Saturday) was a very, very rainy day. If Neal and I don’t have any plans on a Saturday night, then we like to go to the grocery store late at night (like between 10 and midnight; we’re losers). It’s not crowded and we can take our time. So I had to make dinner with whatever I had in the house. I once again perused my Pampered Chef cookbook and found a recipe for parmesan crusted shrimp with spaghetti. I had a block of parmesan cheese in the frig, plus frozen shrimp, pasta and pasta sauce. I sent Neal and out in the rain to grab me some parsley from our herb garden and I was good to go to make this!

I really loved this dinner. I had to grate the parmesan cheese, then cook it in a thin layer in a skillet until it was lacy and golden brown. Then, once it was cool, I broke it up into crumbs. Then I put these crumbs over the shrimp and baked it. It was so good! I will definitely make this again, because it was relatively easy, used few ingredients and was quick.

Doesn’t that look good? It was seriously awesome.

I decided I’ll have to start cooking with shrimp more often!

What a weird weekend this was, right? It poured buckets all day Saturday, and then today (Sunday) is beautiful! Oh well, good football weather. First Eagles game of the season, so let’s go Birds!