My Weight Watcher's Cookbook had an appealing recipe along with a lovely picture to entice all the fatties. The recipe is called Pappardelle with Shrimp. Apparently, pappardelle is the elitist name for what here in reality call "egg noodles." So. Recipe includes: pretentious noodles, olive oil, garlic, shrimpers, dry white wine, chicken broth, eggs (oh yes, we will explore this in detail), parm cheese, pepper, and mint. Yes, mint. To start with, I omitted the wine (why waste money on something like that? Dry white wine? Bleck.) and the mint, because, well, mint? Really? Yech. Then I decided there needed to be some veggies, so I added to this recipe portobella mushrooms, zucchini, and fresh roma tomatoes.
I was a little bit excited. Then I wasn't. Here's why:
1. the shrimp I got? Not peeled. So after cooking them I had to peel them while they were still hot. No me gusta.
2. The mysterious eggs? Following the directions to a T (or a t), I proceed to add the egg, parm, and pepper mixture at the appropriate moment, only to have my eggs immediately scramble. Nice. Dirty looking bits of scramble aborted chicken fetuses are now sticking to all the shrimp and veg. Gross to look at. Gross to eat. The more you know!
3. My extra healthy veg additions? The zucchini became mush. The mushrooms were good, but not enough. And the tomatoes were a bust.
Overall? LAME. If you get a wild hair (hare?) and decide to make this crap, I mean "dish,"
1. Omit the eggs. There is no logical reason to put eggs in this.
2. Don't overcook you zucchini.
3. Ignore my tomato suggestion. More mushrooms!
4. Pasta, the shrimpers with veg. No broth.
5. Buy a pizza from Little Caesar's instead and be happy you are not on a diet (I mean "way of life").
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