So earlier this evening, considering it's 11:48PM as I begin this, my mother and I prepared a delicious dinner. It was pretty spur of the moment considering we were thinking about take-out from our corner Greek restaurant Ethos. Pretty delicious, but we thought we'd do our own take on their Garides Sta Karvouna, or grilled shrimp with fresh herbs in a lemon and olive oil sauce.
The dinner we prepared was probably a lot healthier as far as we knew, since we at least knew what was really going into it. To start, just grab a few jumbo shrimp from your local supermarket freezer section, OR if you're lucky enough to have your own fresh fish store like us, stop by there and pick up some (guaranteed fresher). You'll need a side dish or two. Since the side dish that comes with the Garides Sta Karvouna is usually potatoes in a lemon sauce and herbs, I did my own take on that. You'll need baby red potatoes and some rosemary, and (we used extra virgin) olive oil. Lastly, despite what they say about asparagus, we grilled it up and threw a bit of parmesan cheese on it.
You wash your shrimp, grill them up in a soy & garlic sauce (you can definitely make this yourself) and fish ALWAYS cooks quick so about 10-12 minutes, grill up those asparagus (about 10-15 spears) and then sprinkle a bit of the parmesan, and lastly cut up those baby reds and then throw them in a bowl with some olive oil and fresh rosemary. Mix that up with your hands (if you're not afraid to get your hands oily, think it's probably good for the skin) and then toss them onto anything oven friendly, sprinkle a little sea salt for flavor, and set the oven for 30 minutes. (Time varies depending on how many potatoes you cut up, we used 8 cause ours were really tiny!). And Voila! Dinner is served!! Delicious.
