quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

Broiled lemon, garlic shrimp

This is fast and easy. You can do your favorite carb, but choose a fast one, maybe potatoes/sweet potatoes in the microwave and some salad made before you start the shrimp. Or, maybe you have some leftover aglio e olio!

About 1 lb large shrimp, peeled and deveined or as many as you want to serve. This recipe will serve 2-3
3/4 cup butter
2-3 cloves garlic minced
1 lemon cut in half
some grated Parmesan cheese
1 Tbsp. dried basil

Preheat oven on broiler setting. Remove tails from shrimp and with a sharp knife butterfly them. Arrange them on cookie sheet that has been sprayed with pam..

In a small saucepan, melt butter with garlic and juice squeezed from the lemon. Add the basil. Brush onto shrimp. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese over shrimp.
Place pan on top rack, and broil shrimp for 4 to 5 minutes turning with a fork or tongs once, until done. Serve with remaining butter mixture for dipping.

SERVE IT UP!! With some crusty Italian bread and some white wine. Try soave or pino grigio or Chablis or montrachet ($). Serve the wine real cold.