The Food - Easy Pasta and Shellfish

Easy Pasta and Shellfish

Here's another really easy recipe for those times when you don't have time or energy for somethiing more complicated - but you do need comforting, healing food.

Ingredients:
shellfish - shrimp, mussels, scallops, whatever you love
olive oil
onion, scallions, leeks and/or garlic
mushrooms (optional)
fennel, spinach, chard or mustard greens

spagetti

Last night we made this with shrimp, leeks, and fennel.   It was light, simpole and delicious.

Here's how you do it.

Have the pasta ready.

Put about a 1/2 ich of oil in a  large skillet and turn on medium heat.  Add one leek, sliced thin and as it starts to wilt, add the fennel, also sliced thin.  Just as they begin to carmelize, add the shelled, veined shrimp and toss.  Let cook over medium heat for 5 minutes or until the shrimp are pink and opaque.  Salt to taste. We had it on whole wheat spagetti and it was delicious.

This is also great with onions and mushrooms instead of leeks and fennel and any old shellfish thrown in at the end and sometimes we have it with rather a lot of garlic added at the end as well.  If you are doing greens that only need to wilt, they go in after the shellfish at the very end as well.  And some people like to put grated cheese on it.  But the leeks and fennel were so delicate, we didn't add any garlic or cheese to it this time.