Shrimp Scampi & Simple Salad with Homemade Blueberry Basil Vinaigrette Dressing

Tonight's meal is SUPER easy. From start to finish it took me 30 minutes to make and happily much less time for the kids to DEVOUR it.

Shrimp Scampi

What You Need:
1lb raw, peeled, de-veined shrimp
1 1/2tsp Wildtree Scampi Blend
3tbps Wildtree Grapeseed Oil (plain or roasted garlic are great for this dish)

***For pasta version
Linguini
1/4 water reserved from pasta or 1/4 white wine
2tbsp grapeseed oil
1 to 1 1/2tsp scampi blend

Cook:
If you plan to use rice pilaf or linguini follow directions on the box. Both will need to be started before you start the shrimp.

For each pound of shrimp: Combine 1 1/2tsp of blend with 3 tbsp of grapeseed oil in a COLD skillet. Add shrimp,  toss and bring to low heat, cook until pink, turning often while cooking.

If serving with pasta reserve 1/4c water from pasta before draining. Remove shrimp from the skillet leaving the cooking juices in the pan. Add 2 more tbsp grapseed oil and/or 1/4c white wine or 1/4c pasta water. (I personally used all 3 as i had 6oz (dry) of pasta to coat

 

Simple Salad

Salads are completely subjective. Especially in our family. The kids love Ranch while Roger and I have varied tastes. But these days we seem to both fall back on a vinagrette. While doing some canning earlier in the spring I found a couple recipes in my Ball Canning book for infused vinegars. So I gave it  try. I will share these in a later post. While not a Wildtree product it's all organic and all natural.

What you need:

Baby Spinach

Grape/Cherry Tomatoes

Mozzarella Cheese

Blueberry Basil Infused Vinegar

Fresh Basil

Wildtree Natural Grapeseed Oil

Prepare:

Build your salad how you like it. Easy peasy. For the dressing I combine 1/4 grapeseed oil to 3/4c of infused vinegar and 1tbsp of sugar to help take the edge off the vinegar.  My fresh basil ( which is started from seed) was chopped very very fine and combine with the grapeseed oil and vinegar. 

Shake it up in a container good for dressing and dress your salad.

Dinner was a hit. Grady is not a shrimp fan so he just had noodles but he devoured it and his baby spinach salad with cheese and ranch. Cheyenne cleaned up!

A look ahead. What do you think tonight's dinner will be???