Kristin’s Playground

On Saturday, I made potstickers, a la Alton Brown. The recipe, complete with pictures is behind the cut. Read more »

It’s Friday! Hooray! It should be a good day, too. The weather is beautiful - I didn’t even bring a jacket in to work today, and I biked in, too. That’s a whole week of increasingly nice weather and a whole week of biking in. Tonight we’re going to see Natalia Zuckerman at The Ark, and heading over to a friend’s to celebrate her birthday afterwards. Yep, should be a good day.

Anyway, I wanted to share with you my cooking adventures from last night. Now, in general, I don’t cook, so any time I have anything resembling cooking, I get all proud of myself if it ends up edible. Logan’s been grilling a lot this week, so when we went to the grocery store he encouraged me to get something to grill, too. Shrimp! So, last night, I made a marinade, skewered up some shrimp, and grilled!

The honey mustard marinade, and the food as it went on the grill.

Almost done!

Looks tasty - doesn’t it?

It was.

In retrospect, I should’ve started preparing it all sooner. It was getting a little late when we decided to grill, so we didn’t have a whole lot of time to marinate the shrimp before they hit the grill. Still, all in all, it was pretty good, and pretty easy, too. I think I’m going to try a few different marinades. I got the recipe for this one from the back of the bag of shrimp, and they have a teriyaki one too.