basil Archives - My Suburban Kitchen

Herbed Shrimp Pesto Pizza

August 25, 2014 By Shannah Coe 5 Comments

As a food lover, I am excited to be partnering with Pompeian to share with you a recipe using one of their olive oils. As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

For me, shrimp and butter are made for each. Think of shrimp scampi and how amazing it tastes basted in all that butter. I can think of very few times that I have cooked shrimp in anything but butter {unless it was shrimp cocktail of course}. August is National Olive Oil month and Pompeian is working to get people to take the Pompeian Pledge to swap butter for Pompeian olive oil in one of their favorite recipes. I recently made herbed shrimp pesto pizza and when I typically would have reached for the tub of butter!

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21 Recipes with Basil

July 23, 2014 By Shannah Coe 4 Comments

I have the world’s worst black thumb. Until recently, the only plant I have been able to keep alive is a Christmas cactus that I was given as a gift when my grandfather died years ago. That changed recently when I purchased a hydroponic basil plant because they were out of regular basil. On a whim, I decided to plant it and it has been flourishing ever since. The more it grows, the more I realize that I need to find ways to use it and I collected 21 recipes with basil.

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Strawberry Basil Scones

July 20, 2014 By Shannah Coe 5 Comments

Mathlete is a scone lover. Every time we go to the coffee shop or pick up pastries for breakfast, he always chooses scones. I had never really thought about making my own scones until I was chatting with a blog friend of mine about ways to use her awesome basil simple syrup. I decided right then that I was going to try my hand at making strawberry basil scones with a basil glaze.

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Strawberry Basil Teagarita

July 10, 2014 By Shannah Coe 24 Comments

Almost every Friday, another family and I hit the local Mexican restaurant for margaritas. Both of our schedules have changed a bit so we haven’t been able to make it there as often and have opted for food and cocktails at home instead. Jose Cuervo makes a delicious ready-to-serve margarita and they just recently introduced the Iced Teagarita. It is an yummy mix of a classic lime flavored margarita and iced tea. It is an amazingly refreshing cocktail on a hot summer night!

I have been adding fresh berries to my iced tea drinks recently so I decided to combine that new treat with the Jose Cuervo drink and make a strawberry basil Teagarita.

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