Steve Made Dinner

So I finally made the shrimp and potato that I've been wanting. I used Greek seasoning on the shrimp, and it was so good! The first night I ate it with a baked potato with butter and sour cream, and it was heaven! Then I used the leftover shrimp and ate it with a sweet potato, like I saw on Civilized Caveman....it was ok. The baked potato was far superior, though! (Although butter and sour cream aren't very "caveman.") Still, once you defrost the shrimp (which I did the lazy way, by running warm water over them in a colander), they cook up SO fast, and they're SO good! (And they impress guests! Really!)

Steve had some leftover chicken, but I ate his sweet potato (See above. Oops), so he used the Vegetti (spiral slicer) to make sweet potato "noodles." He said it wasn't too hard to spiral the potato, except for the last inch or two. I was afraid it would take a lot of strength, since I've only done zucchini so far and they're soft. He had a recipe that called for figs and prosciutto and goat cheese (I think) but he skipped the cheese and meat and just added the figs. He said you couldn't really taste them. Here are the noodles: 

The "recipe" with the slicer says to heat them in a pan with some olive oil, salt, pepper, and cinnamon for 5-7 minutes until soft. Steve said it took closer to 15-20 (which seems about right to me. Sweet potatoes always seem to take FOREVER, although I think it would have been faster if he covered the pan). I think they'd be really good with a brown butter sauce, or maybe some cinnamon and brown sugar! We'll have to try it again sometime. I'm not sure about regular marinara sauce, although that could be good, but I think enchilada sauce might good, like the Mexican casserole we make. It's a good way to sneak veggies in.