Day 21 of 30 - A recipe

From the Unibroue beer website.

Sautéed Shrimp with Beer and Cilantro

Beer : Blonde de Chambly
Ingredients
- 1½ cup peeled shrimp (fresh or thawed)
- ¼ cup Blonde de Chambly
- 1 red onion, finely chopped
- 1 red pepper, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp. butter
- Fresh cilantro
- Lime (optional)
Directions
In a skillet, fry onion, garlic, and pepper in 1 tbsp. of butter for about ten minutes. In another skillet, sauté shrimp in the other tbsp. of butter. Once shrimp are fully cooked, add beer and reduce slightly. Add sautéed veggies to shrimp and beer mixture. Serve with fresh cilantro and a squeeze of lime juice.

Time for a *hic* celebration!

Today I just passed a major milestone for work, and might have some room to breathe for awhile. There is just so much to celebrate in this world and one of the better ways to celebrate is to drink heavily.


And what a surprise because today I received my quarterly Wine Club shipment from my favorite winery, Humanitas Wines. For those of you who haven't been around me after I have a sip of wine and become a completely insufferable know-it-all, Humanitas Wines is a non-profit winery that donates a portion of each sale to a food bank based on your ZIP code.

So while I'm chugging away this delicious wine, hugging strangers, and telling them how much I love them and how freakin' beautiful they are, a portion of my money goes to a North Texas food bank.

So I feel good.

Anyway, bundled in with today's wine shipment was a nice little note from the Proprietor of Humanitas Wines, Judd Wallenbrock, telling me that he now has a blog. A blog about whatever he wants to talk about, which includes wonderful, wonderful wine.

So here it is:

www.drinkcharitably.com

In case you hate wine and think it is strictly for snooty snoot snoot snobberbums, I will also let you know that I also mail order beer. Beer not available in North Texas. Specifically, Moose Drool.

I drank Moose Drool on a vacation to Portland once and absolutely fell in love with it. Unfortunately, the distributor does not deliver to Texas. So I mail order it from a place called Liquid Solutions. You, too, can order it here.

And, wouldn't you know it, Liquid Solutions also has a blog.

I think this is a wonderful idea - booze and blogs. I now follow both of these blogs.

The only downside is that now I will be tempted to drink and comment.

So if you decide to follow these same blogs and see a comment from me to the effect of, "YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE YOU!!!! LOOOOOOOVVVVEEEE!!!! Um.... uh... BLLEEEEEAAAARRRGH!" you will know I am in my happy place.