Friday, April 2, 2010

THREE INGREDIENT THROWDOWN!!

CHALLENGE: Come up with a dish more delicious and inspiring than mine! And you only get three ingredients!!!!! It's crazy, I know. Maybe I'm still a little nuts from March Madness. Maybe all the new Butler bandwagon fans have finally pushed me over the edge, I mean, I'm all for them as well, but where did they all come from? Anyway, the idea just came to me as I was walking through Trader Joe's sulking about Andy's recent slap in the face. To say we don't care, wow. Jeff, I hope you are as insulted as I am. Romer, I hope you post something...anything. So, the only way for us to man up in this situation is to have a throwdown. A three ingredient throwdown.



Recipe:
1) Trader Joe's Tomato Basil Marinara
2) Trader Joe's Frozen Shrimp
3) Trader Joe's Organic Polenta (the kind that is pre-rolled into a log)

Warm the marinara over low heat. Cut slices out of the polenta log. Fry polenta slices with butter in a skillet (preferably cast-iron) over moderate heat. When done frying the polenta, throw in the defrosted shrimp and warm up. Assemble. Lay down the polenta, place shrimp on top of polenta, then top with marinara.

This was delicious and crazy simple. It would make a wonderful appetizer for a dinner party.

3 comments:

  1. Urban's a biatch, a funny biatch, but a biatch none the less. I love the throw down idea, I was thinking of posting something similar myself. I will challenge you in your "3" ingredient throwdown, but I don't know how I feel about counting "marinara" and "polenta" as ingredients, come on Simpkins, an Onion is an ingredient, basil is an ingredient....

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  2. What!!! First of all, challenge accepted. Second of all, I believe you are being a little too tight with the definition of "ingredient." Are we going to count salt and pepper as ingredients? What about oil for frying? Jeff, we live in a complex world, sometimes we must stretch the definitions of words or all we will be left with is a competition full of salt and peppered meat. What's Urban's thoughts on the ground rules for this throwdown....or has uber-blogger himself not checked the blog lately? Hmmmmm

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  3. haha, not sure what the "rules" should be, I don't think we would need to count oil and seasoning though, I mean come on. Also, Urban sucks.

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