The cupboards are getting bare. With 2yo in a cast, grocery shopping is challenging. He can't walk and he can't fit in the cart. I can push him around in the stroller, but one-handed around corners doesn't work too well, so that doesn't leave many options for where to put the groceries I want to buy. Basically, our shopping trips have been reduced to restocking milk, bread, and bananas. (My family can't live without bananas.)
But, a neighbor just told me a secret. Safeway has free delivery. I'm going to have to look into that. And really many friends have offered to help out, so I shouldn't complain. The problem I keep having is that for a friend to help out I need to plan ahead and schedule a convenient time. Although my friends are very generous, I don't think I should just show up on their doorstep every time I run out of milk.
Anyway, that didn't help me last night as I was looking through the freezer hoping to find something useful. I only had a little chicken and some shrimp. I remembered that Poor Girl frequently uses shrimp, so I took a look and found many tasty sounding options, but the one that I had the ingredients for was this one. Well, most of the ingredients. I don't usually have wine around, so when cooking I substitute broth. But since this recipe calls for wine and broth, I decided to find something that had a little sweetness in it. What could I come up with? After some scrounging, pineapple juice. Since it was a small amount, the end product didn't taste pineapple-y at all, so I guess it worked. I also only had one lonely vegetable alongside my bag of carrots in the fridge, and it wasn't asparagus as the recipe calls for. So my last zucchini made it in. The results were fantastic and filling, but unsurprisingly not too popular with the picky eaters. 7yo picked out the shrimp and left the rest, and I bet I could have sold more people on the quinoa if it didn't have other things mixed in.
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