Pantry Cooking...Sparked From Financial Sparcity

I wanted to write about a type of cooking that I have truely mastered over the years. It is a type of cooking that comes about due to financial sparcity. It is economical in the fact that everything sooner or later gets used. Leftovers don't go to waste, that extra can of green beans from Thanksgiving gets incorporated into a dish, even the heels of a loaf of bread have their place. This method of cooking I have deemed Pantry Cooking.
I found myself needing to call upon my skills of pantry cooking the other night. I was playing a video game and I was starving. I looked in the fridge and it was a baren wasteland. It reminded me of the movie Fight Club when all Edward Nortan Jr has in his fridge is condements. So here is what I had to work with...
1) Some cooked shrimp from a shrimp cocktail platter
2) Some corn tortillas
3) A few cheese slices
4) Some squeezable tartar sauce.

Here's what I did with it...
First I sautéd the shrimp in a little butter and garlic powder, just to warm up the cold shrimp a bit.



Next I laid out some tortillas on a pizza pan.



I then placed a piece of cheese, some shrimp, and a squirt of tartar sauce on each of the tortillas.



Next I covered the shrimp with another piece of cheese. I also drizzled some of the warm garlic butter over the top of the tortillas.



In a 400•f oven I baked the tortillas for 8-10 min. I folded the tortillas in half and enjoyed my Easy Shrimp Tacos!!!

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