Garlic SHrimp & Pasta

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One of my family's favorite dishes I make is Garlic Shrimp with Wheat Pasta.  It seems they can't get enough of this one.  Its a pretty easy dinner to whip up and you can add a salad to it and garlic bread if you'd like.  We don't do much bread around here any more (too many points)

I start this dinner for us with about 2 pounds of raw divined shrimp, a pound of wheat linguini  and two cans of diced Italian tomatoes.

I boil the pasta as instructed by the box.  We have switched to using wheat pasta...you cant really tell the different, and if you have had a pasta dish at our house recently...you have probably had wheat pasta.

While the pasta is cooking, I start peeling the shrimp.  Now I must say this is the most time consuming part of this recipe.  Now you are probably thinking 2POUNDS of shrimp...that's a lot for our family, but you see we LOVE shrimp and we LOVE leftovers for lunch.  And how many times have you gone out to dinner,ordered a shrimp dish and you get 6, maybe 8 pieces of shrimp.  Not here...shrimp in every bite.

PEELED RAW SHRIMP

Cooking the shrimp doesn't take to long.  I put a bit of olive oil just to barely cover the bottom of the pan, I usually use about two cloves of garlic minced in each pan full of shrimp I cook.  I add some lemon pepper seasoning.  It only takes about 2 minutes to cook the shrimp to a nice orange'ish color, as it finishes, I add some of the can of tomatoes to the shrimp, for about a minutes and then put it into a bowl, as I cook the remaining shrimp just as I have done to the first batch.

IN the meantime the pasts has finished and i drain the water out and rinse in warm water and set aside til I finish cooking the shrimp.

COOKED WHEAT PASTA

Now since I cook for an army  (OK not really I just cook BIG portions) I add the pasta back to the big pot and add all the cooked shrimp into the pot too.  If there is any tomatoes left in the can, I add them at this time too.

SHRIMP ADDED TO PASTA

 I basically cook all of it together just to heat them up together.  And there you have it....

THE FINISHED MEAL...SMELLS SOOO GOOD!

I hope your family enjoys it as much as mine does.