Shrimp Pasta in a Foil Package

Tonight I made Shrimp Pasta in a Foil Package.  Trust me, it looked just like the picture.  I actually took one, then couldn't find my "hookup thing" for my camera, so I'm just waving the white flag and posting without a picture.

Really, I looked a long time.  A Long TIME!

So, the food...It was really good.  Not exactly your 40 degree weather type of meal but it would be great during the summer with a good glass of Chardonnay.  I used whole grain pasta for lots of fiber.  We don't shy away from fiber in this house.  Other than that one change, I didn't change anything but the portion.  I cut the entire recipe in half.  PW must be cooking for an army.  Or she only cooks every other day?  Maybe they love leftovers?  Who knows.

I always think the best things to go with a pasta dish is a Caesar salad and garlic bread.  That's exactly what we had and this meal really was good.  Although, I'm not sure I'll come across a recipe of hers that isn't.

I'm not going to re-post (is that's a word) any recipes because hers have pictures (step-by-step) and go into much better detail than I ever could.  I will rate them on a scale of 1-5 or "tastiness" (another made up word I think) and 1-5 for difficulty.

Taste:1-Being "Yuck" &  5- Being "oh my I think I'm in Heaven this is so good" 

Difficulty: 1-Being "Luke could cook this." &  5-Being "Uh, may swear off cooking altogether because this was so hard."

Taste- 3.5
Difficulty- 1

Look what my husband found...my camera hookup thingy.  This was the pic I took before I put it in the oven!

There I Go, All Crazy and Stuff

Alright, so I'm back from our Thanksgiving trip to the ranch and I've officially decided that I've gone CRAZY.  What was I thinking trying to be a copy cook??  I've been searching Pioneer Woman's cooking section of her website for a perfect dish to start off with.  She only has about 4 million recipes to choose from, so I'm going to start with her favorites.  If they call for beef, I'm going to use it, because I don't want to steer you wrong. 

I do have one request...If you would like to know how something is going to turn out, or would just like to know the difficulty level of something (because, let's be honest, she makes it all look easy) let me know what dish you are curious about and I'll make it and review it for you first.  That way I won't always have to pick myself.

 Naturally, I'm probably going to choose the dishes that I'd like to eat first.  I'm anticipating this LITTLE endeavor is going to take me at least a year.  I promise to do my best to keep up with at least two or three recipes a week.  I really want to do her justice, so these recipes, I will be following to the teaspoon!


**I am not endorsing Pioneer Woman and I'm pretty sure she has absolutely never heard of me or my little bitty 'ol blog.  I just think she is the coolest thing since sliced bread and it seems that a lot of other people are catching on to the 'P Dub' craze. 

I'll have my first post up tomorrow night or Tuesday night about a yummy looking seafood, pasta dish for dinner.