43-10

Ingredients.

Egg noodles boiling.

Stirring

Adding butter.

Adding heavy cream.

The Cheese!

Finished in the pan.

Butter and garlic.

Add shrimp

Scampi sauce.

Fettuccine on the plate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finished Meal.

I honestly can not believe that I am ten meals into this thing and still going strong. I am rather proud of myself when I think about it. huh. Anyway, here is my from scratch fettuccine alfredo and shrimp scampi. This one actually posed more of a challenge than I thought it was going to. After reading the really short recipes in the 70's-riffic cookbook that I bought I thought that these where going to be a snap. I think that they would have been if I took them a little more seriously than I did. Normally when I cook from a recipe I will read through it at least 4 or 5 times before i attempt to cook it. With these I think I look over the ingredient lists and then skimmed the directions and figured that I could do this no problem. Eh, I was half right. The fettuccine was fairly straight forward and not that difficult to do, though I really should have prepped first. I didn't have anything measured out at all. Poor planning I know. It was the scampi sauce that gave me most of the issue. The book said that it would turn syrupy; it did no such thing. It went from liquid to congealed in a matter of 45 seconds. It didn't taste bad though. After we finished eating the meal I figured that I just had added too much lemon juice. 

The darling boy gave me a seven for this try, but it must be said that that was only after I gave him the sad puppy dog eyes and told him that I would only rank it a 5. So I guess you can say I guilt-ed an extra point out of him. It is still a seven though, so there. HA! I am pretty sure that he liked it though. He compared it to one of those Lipton™ pasta sides, we figured out about halfway thought it was most comparable to the broccoli in cream sauce one, which is rather amusing considering that there was no broccoli in this whole meal. There are worse things that I could have my cooking compared to so I am not that sad about it. 

I guess in the end of this one I know that I should have done more preparation and gave the book a little more attention. So the lower mark is all me and not the food's fault, but hey they can't all be 10's, right?

 Next week: Back to my darling Ina? Perhaps...