Date Night In - Shrimp Brochettes

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Looks like we all are going to be having a ton of date nights in this month. Hope my readers and family are doing well during this time and staying safe.

JPs favorite meal out at Pappasitos or Pappadeaux is always the shrimp brochettes. Since Colorado is unlucky and does not have a Pappasitos, we decided to bring this meal home. I will be comparing this to Pappadeaux today since that restaurant is in town.

 So, like all my date night in posts, let's break down the costs.



Shrimp $12.99
Bacon $3.99
Jalapenos $0.15
Asparagus $1.99
Lemon $.25
Dirty Rice $1.00
Garlic Cajun Butter Sauce $1.00
Total $21.37
Plus ingredients not above that I already had... $23.00

This meal actually made us 16 shrimp brochettes so the next morning we were able to enjoy more of these. They were delicious. You can stuff these with cheese, seafood, whatever you want, but we chose to just do jalapenos with shrimp wrapped in bacon. We then topped it with a Cajun garlic butter sauce. The dirty rice is the boxed Zatarains and it lasts a few meals as well. 

If we had gone out to dinner and ordered this exact meal, below is an estimate of what that meal would have cost. For this meal, I chose to use Pappadeaux since we have one of those here in Colorado.

2 orders of Shrimp Brochettes $70
Total before tax and tip: $70
After taxes and 20% tip: $87.50

So, the difference for this meal is $64.50... but that is if we only ordered that. Plus, pretty sure we still got more food at home. If JP and I were to actually go eat there, we would have gotten a glass of wine or cocktail, appetizer and salad. We do it up when we eat out because we do not eat out that often.  That is one thing that I love about us, that we love to cook. We allow ourselves to cook great food at home so that we can indulge when we do eat out at a nice restaurant like our Anniversary dinner. 

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