Random Tasks

I got hungry at around 11pm tonight and decided that a rice cake or a piece of string cheese just wasn't going to do. It took me about five minutes worth of digging around in my pantry to decide what I was going to make for myself.

I ended up with a Butternut Squash Soup with Lime Pepper Shrimp, Caviar, and Herbs de Provence.

(Yes, I had just finished watching Top Chef. Why can't Howie go home?)

Anyway, my logic in creating this monstrosity was as follows:

I had the squash soup ready-made in a box, frozen shrimp in the fridge, and caviar I'd yet to open (lumpfish, so not expensive caviar).

I was originally going to just use the shrimp and soup, but I tasted some of the soup cold and decided that it could use salt, and why use salt to add saltiness to something when you can use caviar! At any rate, the "lime pepper" seasoning was arrived upon simply via thinking that lemon pepper is good with any seafood and then realizing that while I didn't have lemon juice, I had plenty of lime.

In all honesty, the herbs de provence were included because I thought it needed something green and because the seasoning on the shrimp wasn't as strong as I'd hoped, so it needed some more kick.

At any rate, it made for a pretty tasty near-midnight snack. Here's a picture of the dish sitting on top of my messy just-utilized cutting board:

















NOTE: I cooked/wrote this after 3.5 Johnny Blacks on the rocks, so it may well be crap, both post and dish. I guarantee nothing!