Tropical Kitchen Island Breezes: Seafood Stew

On June 16, 2009, In Food, Home, Recipes, By LisaT

After wrestling with the instructions and millions of bits and pieces in which my kitchen island from Target arrived, I triumphantly took a long, hard look at the vast acreage of counter space I had acquired. Success!

The purchase was a special treat to myself, for cutting back on my restaurant outings. Also, the free shipping and online discount made it a no-brainer. Especially when I heard the UPS guy lugging the box up the stairs to my apartment front door. “I thought someone was dragging a corpse,” I told him after thanking him and subsequently ripping the box open virtually immediately.

To celebrate, I’m preparing a seafood stew for dinner this evening. It’s one of those grab-bag-type recipes I love so much. In case you’re interested:

Ingredients:
-A handful of frozen shrimp
-1 bag of Trader Joe’s mixed seafood: shrimp, calamari rings and sea scallops
-1 cup of frozen sweet corn
-1/2 cup of white wine
-1 can of Select Harvest Light Maryland-Style Crab Soup
-Handful of chopped red onion
-Handful of chopped cilantro
-Pat of butter

Directions:
Simply toss the whole business into the Crock Pot and let cook for a few hours. You can cook about 1/2 a cup of rice to go with the whole business once the stew is done. Make sure to invite over friends to help enjoy the bounty.

Calorie-counting folk neither allowed nor welcome! Sorry, but this ain’t a fat-free kitchen, y’all.