My maiden voyage into my food blog… yum!
Tonight’s meal is inspired by a dish that I had at Kefi in NYC shortly before I moved back to Toronto.
It’s one of those meals that I tried that was a.) ridiculously delicious and b.) ridiculously easy to make. Pretty much just shrimp, orzo, tomatoes, feta, spinach, garlic and some herbs. And wine, of course a splash of vino! It seemed almost TOO easy so I hit some of my usual internet recipe collections to see if it really was that easy. And it was.
I started out by cooking the orzo. I cooked it until about a minute or two until it was perfectly done because it was going in the oven. Then I tossed the orzo with some olive oil, feta, basil and a shaving of fresh Parmesan and dumped it into a baking dish. Then I sauteed the shrimp for about two minutes until they were JUST starting to turn pink and added them to the orzo. I topped the shrimp and orzo with some fresh Ontario spinach and some more feta and lightly combined.
For the tomato sauce I sauteed some garlic in olive oil and then added diced tomatoes in the can (with their juice), dried oregano, hot red pepper flakes and white wine. I simmered until it reduced a bit and then poured that onto of the shrimp and orzo mixture. Topped everything with some feta and put the dish in the oven to bake for about 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes I had this…
Tomatoey goodness…
It turned out GREAT. Almost as good as Kefi. Next time I think I would use some fresh basil and buy some REAL Greek feta cheese. This time I was being thrifty and bought Canadian feta from Kensington Market. I would probably use a bigger splash of wine as well.
One thing to note… I wouldn’t add salt other than when you salt the water for the Orzo. The feta cheese has enough saltiness to it that you don’t need any more.
Bon Appetito!
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