Creamy shrimp scampi pasta

Something Smells Fishy...

Shrimp scampi is one of my favorites, it’s no secret. Ever since I saw Tyler Florence make it on Food network and realized it was so easy to make I was hooked. I have made it countless times over the last seven years. It’s the first video recipe I ever posted and the most popular recipe on my youtube channel with over 18,000 views. Most recently I began making it onto a one pot meal by adding cream and pasta. So I figured I would share the recipe with you all.

Callaloo Ravioli in callaloo alfredo sauce

Independence Month!

 Here is another Jamaican staple ingredient, the callaloo. With its thick stems and large broad leaves. This is normally sautéed with other veggies and meats like salt fish, then served for breakfast. Its also the star ingredient in a vegetarian soup called pepper pot soup. However today Callaloo will be making an appearance stuffed in ravioli.

Pot of Jamaican Gold

Its Jamaica’s Independence month!!!

And in proper Jamaican fashion I will dedicate this month to all foods and drinks indigenous to my home country. But don’t expect the traditional methods; I’m still the Greedy Girl after all. So expect Jamaican dishes with a twist.

Salt and not so Vinegar chips

Cookout and BBQ Season!

The Potato chip is one of the classic summer BBQ side dishes. Second only to fries, it goes with every summer sandwich. Hot dogs and burgers would not be the same without a hand full of potato chips to munch on.

I hate salmon

 

A few months back I went on a pescaterian venture. The only form of animal protein i consumed was seafood. As a true island girl, I love all seafood with the exception of salmon and lobster (sigh, yes I said lobster, hate it!!!). For some reason the flavor of salmon is so strong and over powering I tend to eat very small pieces of it or none at all.

Blueberry butter & Vanilla bean cream upside-down cupcakes

DISCLAIMER

If you are on a diet, trying to diet, want to diet or need to diet. This is not the recipe for you; it’s pure decadence, rich, sweet, heaven on a plate comfort food. So please check out a less fatty post…You have been warned.

Shrimp Scampi like a Pro

First and foremost I have to give a shout out to Red Lobster for introducing me to shrimp scampi. It was here that I had my very first taste, one of my guilty pleasures. It’s no secret that their version is way too oily and salty, but its soooo yummy, who can resist? My goal was always to make a shrimp scampi that tasted just like theirs, minus the overdose of butter and hypertensive salt content.

'Crack' Mix

 How rare is it to purchase a ready-made trail mix, with nothing to pick out? It’s hard I know. I love having trail mix as a snack or just something “fi ketch up mi blood suga” So instead of picking through a mix of wants and want not’s I just decided to mix a batch.

Cookie cutter eggs

Woke up one weekday morning and began to browse on Facebook (Facebook first thing in the morning? Hello my name is Tay and i'm an addict). I follow a page called interesting and creative designs. They posted some food art, where someone made ring molds from green and red bell peppers which they cooked sunny side eggs inside. GENIUS!!! Breakfast was served.

Can’t cook without

There are just some things you can’t live without, can’t do without. Likewise there are some kitchen utensils you can cook without. You don’t even realize how deep this unnatural dependency is until your rummaging through a friends kitchen drawer fighting back tears and wondering how she survives without a mallet.

Ready...Set...Cook

I’m just another greedy girl with a passion for cooking. I’ve decided to extend a helping hand to all my fellow foodies who love to cook or who need to learn to cook. Why should only my friends and family enjoy my special yummies. I need to share the wealth. 

Cooking for me, is like that home town boyfriend who everyone expects you to get married to, but you feel like there is bigger and better in the world. You leave home, find a new love, get married have kids, but then comes the what-ifs, and the memories of yesteryear. I ignored my culinary instincts, moved on and married Architecture, Urban design and environmental technology :/ Somehow cooking was always in my blood, always something I did as a hobby because I truly love it...Or maybe I just love to eat...but in any case, I cook like most people read books. If I had a penny for the amount of times I’ve heard  "why didn't you go to culinary school" I would be as rich as Oprah. So I decided why not try something new and different.

So here I am world, I will post recipes I’ve created, recreated, show you my own tips and tricks, quick snack ideas, and mini vlogs of my local food finds. And to top it off  I’m kicking it chef John style and recording the recipes and posting to a youtube channel as well.  (please don’t say you don’t know who Chef John is) 

Ohhh…by the way,  I'm Jamaican…..so be prepared for some island spice!!! 

My motto: If you can’t cook you shouldn’t eat :p 

So don't worry I'm here to help 

Xoxo Greedygirl