First Meal in Our New Home

For the first meal in our new home, we decided to go a healthy, but very delicious way. We had a lot of quinoa in the cupboard, so we automatically knew we would be incorporating that in some manner. The next decision was the protein. After a little bit of pondering, we decided to choose shrimp - which turned out to be a great decision.

We started off by bringing beef broth to a boil and adding the quinoa in.

We also chose to add in dried apricots, cranberries and raisins - giving it a little bit of sweetness.

We also had the chance to break out our new Jamie Oliver T-Fal pans. We started off by heating up some extra virgin olive oil, adding fresh garlic and red onions. After letting that simmer, we tossed in our shrimp and added some Blue Menu (R) roasted garlic spice.

While all this cooking was going on, we treated ourselves to some nice French baguette with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. A great appetizer before jumping in to the main course.

Once the quinoa was ready, after about 15 minutes, we added in the dried fruit and folded in the shrimp. We let the entire meal cool for about 5 minutes before we dug in!

It was a great way to break in the new kitchen and mark the first ever home-cooked meal in our new condo in the heart of Toronto. The portion size was great and gave us ample left overs. We only made 1-cup of quinoa, but it filled us up and then some.

A great dinner for two!