Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Wonder

Light Lemon Basil and Shrimp Pasta


Wonder

In my humanities class we decided to grow herbs because we had a project called Lets Use Less Stuff(L.U.L.S.). For the L.U.L.S. project our class did researches on living more sustainably. In order to all of us to live sustainably we planned on growing herbs just like the farmer's market. Cooking with the herbs made us live sustainably because we used less money, and we grew the herbs organically.

Process


The ingredients I used for cooking my lemon basil were: lemon basil, olive oil, linguine, salt & pepper, 1 lemon, and 1 garlic clove.

First I boiled the linguine, while I was boiling the linguine I added olive oil to a skillet.
Then I zest the lemon and put it in the skillet with olive oil to let it simmer.
After the lemon zest simmered I drained the olive oil to get rid of the lemon zest.
I poured the olive oil back into the skillet and placed the chopped garlic clove into the skillet and put the cooked shrimp in the skillet to saute' it. When the shrimp in the skillet turned pink I put the pasta in the skillet and added salt, pepper and a bit of lemon basil. Next I placed the pasta on a plate & then baaam! Im done!(=

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Reflection


At first I thought the Lemon Basil Pasta with Shrimp would be disgusting but then I took a bite and it was SCRUMPTIOUS! then I gave it to my sister and she ate all the pasta and took some to school for lunch. I don't think I would have changed anything because it turned out perfect,even though i doubted it would be good. I think cooking with herbs kind of changed my thinking in a way because it made me want to grow more herbs!

4 comments:

Pascal's cool blog said...

good job, your food looked preety good. I like what you put in the wonder part of your writing

Ms. Charlotte said...

Nia, that looks delicious!

Jessica said...

I liked how you posted a picture of you eating the pasta, it's a good visual and the food looks really good!

Victoria A said...

It kind of sounded like a really complex meal. I think that most of the other people just made salsa or salad or sides. It looked good too. good job!!