Let's blame it on my camera. Or rather, let's blame my brief absence from this blog on me being a novice in the food photography arena. I'm waiting patiently for my father-in-law (who's a whiz at anything electronic) to come over and give a tutorial on how to take a great picture.
For the last weekday lunch my hubby and I will be able to share for a while, we had steak and green beans. The steak was simply prepared; I let it rest for about 15 minutes, seasoned it generously with salt and pepper, fried it on high heat for about 4 minutes per side for medium-rare, let it rest out the pan, and topped it with a compound butter of herbs and sun-dried tomato. The green beans are a new favorite. The recipe is inspired by the brilliant cook at the P-town Gourmet (thanks, Neville!). The beans are boiled for a couple of minutes, then cold-shocked to retain color, and mixed with a lemon rosemary vinaigrette, thinly sliced red onion, and cranberries - yes, cranberries.
For dinner, we had a really good mushroom and shrimp risotto. I keep frozen shrimp in the freezer and always have risotto on hand, so this is a really easy go-to when the weather starts to get cool. I always cook the shrimp seperately over very high heat in butter. After the shrimp are done, I squeeze fresh lemon juice into the pan (off the heat) along with another dallop of butter and then pour this over the shrimp. It's really, really good.
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