Mom turns gourmet...

OK OK So I am slightly intimidated by my husband and his roots in the restaurant business. He is a gourmet chef and I am married to him! It is a wonderful thing, but on occasion Chili , beef enchiladas or tacos are good, but not gourmet. I feel like my cooking is inferior, and truth is... IT IS!!! So I need to spruce up my menus. I wasn't raised around gourmet food, we did not even have garlic in the spice rack for heaven's sake. Last night I copied a few ideas and came up with a, what I thought was, pretty for a Tuesday.

Saffron Risotto below fresh garlic spinach, and topped with a spicy BBQ pesto shrimp. I used Nicholas' trick with the PVC pipe, Mandola's idea of the seafood/spinach and Marcia's cajun BBQ shrimp plus Chris' homemade pesto.

Ashlynn thought it was so pretty she took a picture.

WHAAAAAA LAH!!!