Hopes Recipes

01/08/2025

Fried catfish and grits with a drizzle of hot sauce 🤤

10/25/2024

I love a good pasta dish!! 🤤

02/11/2024

My new favorite side dish 🤤

Spinach, Strawberry, and Blueberry Salad with Feta

Ingredients:
* Fresh spinach
* Strawberry (cleaned and sliced)
* Blueberries (handful)
* Feta cheese (crumbled)
* Honey
* Balsamic vinegar
* Pecans (chopped) optional

Directions:
* In a large salad bowl, combine spinach, strawberries, blueberries, honey, and balsamic vinegar. Toss.
* Serve the salad topped with pecans and feta cheese. Enjoy!

01/25/2024

Shrimp and Crab Scampi 🤤
Here’s the recipe 👇🏽

Ingredients:
* Spaghetti or linguine
* Shrimp peeled, deveined and tails removed
* Cooked crab meat pieces
* Olive oil
* Butter (I used plant based butter)
* Red onion (diced)
* Red bell pepper (diced)
* Garlic (minced)
* Fresh parsley
* Red pepper flakes
* Chicken stock or vegetable stock
* Lemon juice
* Garlic salt
* Seasoning salt of your choice
* Garlic, and onion powder
* Parmesan cheese (optional)

Instructions:
* Add garlic salt and oil to water, and boil. Cook the pasta according to package directions. Drain, and reserve some pasta water.
* Season shrimp with seasoning salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. Add oil to a large skillet on medium-high heat. Once the pan is hot, sear the shrimp 1-2 minutes on each side, and remove from the pan.
* To the same pan, add butter, garlic, red onion, and red bell pepper, and sauté for 2-3 minutes, until caramelized. Add the chopped parsley, and red pepper flakes, and cook for an additional 2 minutes. Gently pour in the chicken or veggie stock, and lemon juice. Stir. turn off the heat after most of the liquid is gone, and stir in more butter.
* Add the cooked shrimp, crab, pasta, and reserved pasta water. Cook for 2 minutes, then plate. Top with Parmesan cheese, if using and enjoy!

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving from Hopes Recipes!

If you love shrimp just as much as I love shrimp, these Tasty Keto Shrimp Cakes are for YOU! They are juicy, tender, and packed with flavor. These Tasty Keto Shrimp Cakes always seem to disappear fast in my household. My guests have no idea…

09/28/2023

08/29/2023

Cheesy Broccoli Tortellini 🤤

04/28/2023

Before the weather changes, I must have a bowl of chicken with homemade dumplings!
Here’s my recipe 👇🏽

Ingredients:
rotisserie chicken (chopped)
butter
onion (diced)
celery (diced)
carrots (diced)
garlic (minced)
4 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
better than bouillon chicken base
all purpose flour (for roux)
Seasoning: salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, red pepper flakes (optional), italian seasoning, thyme and 1 bay leaf.

Dumpling ingredients:
1 1/3 cup all purpose flour
2 tsps baking powder
Pinch of salt
2/3 cup milk
2 tbsps melted butter
2 tbsps parsley flakes

Directions:
* Add oil to a large pot. Once hot, add celery, carrots and onion. Season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder. Sauté for about 3 minutes.
* Add minced garlic, and sauté for another 30 seconds. Add better than bouillon and stir. Add butter, and flour and stir well for 1 minute to form a roux.
* Stir in the chicken broth, scraping up anything stuck to the bottom of the pot, and bring mixture to a boil. Add the thyme and bayleaf.
* Add the chopped rotisserie chicken and stir. Cover the pot with a lid, reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through. Add seasonings and season to taste. Add heavy whipping cream, and stir.
Dumplings:
* Combine flour, baking powder, parsley flakes, and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Make a well in the center and add milk, and melted butter. Use a spatula to stir until combined, and form a dough, but don’t over mix.
* Bring soup to a simmer and then use a small spoon or ice cream scooper to form a small oval or circle dumpling. Drop the dumplings in to the simmering soup (the dumplings will double in size as they cook).
* Cover the pot and simmer on medium low for 15-20 minutes. Once done, add parsley for garnishing and enjoy 🤤

02/21/2023

Homemade Butter Pecan Cookies 🤤