Easy, Simple,Elegant

Okay where do I start, which recipe should I start with. Let me first start by saying I never went to cooking school or anything like that. I started helping my grandma make sweet dough pies, roux and fig preserve when I was 4. I did take cooking lessons at the age of 10, 11, & 12 and thus my love for cooking emerged. I love to cook, entertain do "plating" lol; and many of my friends and husband thoroughly love it! So I will start easy I suppose. 

I made these simple yet elegant appetizers for Christmas. My Godmother allowed me to raid her dining room when I went home for Thanksgiving (home is Louisiana by the way). I found all these gorgeous port wine little glasses. I thought I could do individual Panna Cotta's for a book club get together or an intimate dinner. So I secured them all! 


For Christmas I decided on using them to make individual shrimp cocktail. Why? Because I like to double dip. Really I do, and with these I can go dip crazy! The sauce I used (I didn't make it I know I hear my friends gasping now) was Louisiana Brand Cocktail Sauce and I added a little bit of Horseradish to each little glass. I used cooked and cleaned jumbo shrimp. In in a big bowl I tossed the shrimp in salt, pepper and lemon juice (about 1 tbl for lemon juice season to taste) , and then I neatly "hung" them from each glass. . and presto an elegant appetizer where your friends will think wow she is so creative and it only took you seconds!  YUMMY!