Whispers in the Branches: Sarah's Shrimp Soufflé
Ingredients
- ½ lb shrimp, cooked and deveined
- 3 T butter
- 3 T flour
- ½ tsp dry mustard
- 1 shallot, minced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ tsp rosemary
- 1 cup milk
- 5 egg whites
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 T lemon juice
- Parm/Asagio mix, grated
- Tip #1: Use room temperature eggs to ensure maximum fluffiness.
- Tip #2: Measure the ingredients before you start! Soooo important!
Directions
Heat oven to 375°F. Chop shrimp. On the stove, melt butter in a medium saucepan. Sauté shallots and garlic to translucence. Add flour, mustard and rosemary. Cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly until thickened. Add milk; stir into a thick sauce. Let cool slightly while you beat the egg yolks, then beat into sauce. Add lemon juice. Butter two 14-ounce ramekins and sprinkle liberally with cheese mix. Beat egg whites in a glass bowl until stiff. (Note: This takes a looong time to do by hand!) Stir shrimp into rosemary-garlic sauce and fold in the egg whites with just a few strokes. No overmixing. (Seriously. You can ruin the whole thing in this step. Don’t.) Pour soufflé batter into the prepared ramekins. Reduce heat to 350°F when putting into the oven. Bake for 27-29 minutes until puffed-up and browned. (Note: If using a soufflé dish instead of ramekins, bake for 35 minutes.) Serve immediately with crisp-tender asparagus spears and gelato for dessert.
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There’s more than one way to be haunted . . .
AFTER A SERIES of agonizing losses, Abby Wells seeks solace with distant relatives in faraway Georgia. Maybe her great-aunt Ruby can answer the questions Abby’s mother never would.
But what begins as a search for connection quickly turns with Aunt Ruby’s claims that the old family home is haunted. Desperate to believe in something, Abby throws herself into the ghost hunt—unaware of Aunt Ruby’s schemes or that the grudges in her bloodlines run generations deep.
Her heart wrestles with the land of the living, caught between her ex’s bid for reconciliation and a growing fascination with the house’s handsome caretaker. Yet it’s the burden of mystery that woos her as she calls into the stillness—
Are you real?
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