FoodB

So much for that whole record of posting every 3 days or so. I do have an excuse though. Someone killed my car.

About a month ago, Jen's mom put her house up for sale. She is planning on moving up to Oregon and hopefully someday soon, we shall follow. We both really miss a lot about Oregon (the food selection is top notch up there) and want to really make that area our future home.

With the sale of the house comes open houses. For the first open house, we invited the family and dogs over so the realtor could do his business and we decided to cook up some ribs. The ribs were smoked and I have to say that it has been awhile since I have had ribs that good. One of the other things that we threw on the grill were some shrimp marinated in a sauce that Jenn whipped up. She got the inspiration for the sauce from watching Iron Chef and decided what better time to experiment. Here is the recipe for the sauce:

Mean Green Dressing

1 bundle of flat leaf parsley (Italian Parsley)
1/2 bundle of cilantro
1 bundle of small scallion tops (you can find these in the herb section of your grocery store)
5 sweet basil leaves
1 lemon
1 clove of garlic
Kosher salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Olive Oil, about 1/2 a cup

• Squeeze half the lemon into a blender, the add the bund of parsley, cilantro, scallions and basil, garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Start to blend in the blender slowly adding the olive oil as you go. You may or may not need all the /2 a cup just make sure to eyeball and taste as you go to get the consistency you like. If you need to, add more salt or lemon juice.

Man that was good on the shrimp. The flavors really came out. Grilling the shrimp was pretty easy with this on it because they were pretty much coated with olive oil. There was some leftover sauce the next day and Jenn tried throwing it on a salad. She enjoyed it yet I did not. I am finding that I still like my salad with no dressing so don't take this as a negative review of it. Just not my cup of tea.