Taste of Home

For a Christmas gift, my mom gave me a subscription to Taste of Home magazine. What a great gift! I love the magazine because I've found some good recipes in there over the years of perusing my Mom's copies (and my copies from one year she bought me a subscription before).

This is the issue I recently received...

and it was quite timely. You see, I had just thawed a pound of shrimp to make Bang Bang Shrimp and grew impatient while breading all of it. (In a pound, there are a lot of medium sized shrimp.) After breading about half of it, I decided to put the rest in a baggie in the frig. 

Sadly, I'm not the best at remembering to use items (like fresh produce or thawed meat) quickly enough. Fortunately, I picked up my new magazine and flipped through it looking at all the recipes the morning after the raw shrimp went in the frig. 

That's when I found this: 

It's a Southwestern shrimp bisque. I was thrilled to find I already had all of the ingredients. 

While Matt was out of town, I made this for my lunch: 

I must say, it was fabulous! The only thing I didn't have was the avocado that is an optional garnish. I didn't feel a thing was missed without it. The flavor was top notch. I was pleased to have enough leftover for another meal.

Next time, I may dare making it for Matt. He usually likes meals with more substance, but I think this one is so good it's worth testing it out on him...especially if I make the Cheddar Biscuits to go with it :)