If you haven’t been to visit Pioneer Woman, you must do so! I discovered her blog a few months ago & have not been able to tear myself away. She’s a city girl who married a cowboy over 10 years ago and they have 4 children. They live on a working cattle ranch somewhere out in the big vast west somewhere. I still haven’t figured out what state they are in. Anyway, her name is Ree & she is one hilarious writer. She’s only been blogging about 2 years and has already won awards & goes on speaking engagements for blogging & the advertisers are all over her site. She draws the crowds like no other blog I know! So, that being said, if you haven’t visited her yet, go on over. You will get sucked into the archives like I did & will want to read all about her & her hubby (Marlboro Man) & their interesting life on the ranch & all about their love story. It’s never a dull moment & she loves photography & takes some of the most gorgeous outdoor shots you’ve ever seen. The commentary is just a hoot too. Go on over…you won’t be sorry, but be prepared to stay & read way too long. Also, JC Penney has just enlisted her to be one of their blog contributors & she is writing about her bathroom/laundryroom renovation. That’s entirely entertaining too! She will post links periodically when she adds something new on there. She even lets her readers vote on which color stain to stain her bathroom cabinets & stuff like that. She is one fun girl! Those 4 kidlets are pretty cute too.
So, back to cooking. She also has a cooking blog too & shares lots of fun recipes. She shared this one recently & it sounded so good I had to try it. And, we were not disappointed at all. This is ONE GREAT RECIPE! If you love shrimp & pasta, you will love this one. If you click on the cooking blog link, you’ll go directly to her site, which spells out how to cook this with lots of pics & fun commentary, so I’m not going to duplicate hers…she’s way more entertaining than I could ever be! It’s basically shrimp & penne pasta in a creamy tomato sauce. I did one change from her recipe & that was to add a small (15 oz.) can of petite diced tomatoes, along with the small can of tomato sauce & I used a little more than 1 cup of cream. I wanted to have plenty of sauce to cover 1 lb. of pasta. I also added a dash of hot pepper flakes…we like a little heat. 
I absolutely LOVED it. The shrimp, tomato sauce & fresh basil was so yummy!! This is one of the best pastas I’ve ever made, so if you like all those ingredients, you MUST try this. It’s fantastic! This one is going in the rotation for sure.
Here are the basic ingredients:
1 lb. penne pasta
1 small can tomato sauce
Butter, garlic & olive oil
diced onion
shrimp
petite diced tomatoes (I added these as extra)
Heavy Cream
Fresh basil & parsley
salt & pepper
You basically saute the garlic & onion in olive oil/butter, as well as the shrimp. Add the tomato sauce & diced tomatoes to the garlic & onion, add the cream & peeled shrimp, simmer & serve over the penne pasta.
Follow along with her directions! You will love this dish!
I’m loving the cooler weather too – I thought for a while it would never come!
I think I’ve tried all of your recipes and they’re always winners so I’ll give this one a go too. I looks scrumptous!
Have fun with the kids – maybe they’ll want to go yardsailing with you!
Manuela
Yum! Looks delicious!
Thanks Rhoda..I’ve added The Pioneer Woman to my list. She is amazing!
Pat
I make this all the time and we not only eat it over pasta, but I experimented with putting over meatloaf.
I use milk instead of cream and add parmeasean cheese and roasted red peppers.
I agree, this is an easy awesome recipe!
Going to visit her site now.
Wow, Rhoda, that looks delish! I’ll definitely fix it soon. After you posted Pioneer Woman’s cooking blog, I poked around over there a bit. Did you see that olive cheese bread recipe? Looks very yummy!
I’m loving the fall weather (finally!) too. Hope you have a great weekend with your hubby and the kids!
Rhoda, I’ve been reading Pioneer Woman for a few months now, too. It’s a terrific blog! Have you seen Rechelle at http://www.countrydoctor‘swife.blogspot.com? She is really funny, too.
xoxo,
Mary
Thanks for the blog info! I am going to check her out.
I love your blog, too.
Fabulous! I can’t wait to check her out!
I discovered Pioneer Woman some time ago and her food photography and recipes just make me so hungry!
I made that cream-sauced pasta a few nights ago and loved it! Yum.
That looks yummy!
Enjoy your weekend. The weather is going to be beautiful.
Sandi
Hi Rhoda…I’m enjoying reading through your blog and I love the shrimp recipe – sounds de-lish!! It finally got a little cooler here too. We went from the 90’s at the start of the week to the 60’s today. Finally feels like fall.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog! I just love rabbits too. Have a great weekend and I’ll definitely be back for another visit. Thanks!
Erin
I’ve been reading her blog for about 6 months and feel the same way. I’ve yet to try one of her recipes, but they all look delish.
Thanks for the tips Rhoda. I will check out that blog.
Have fun with the kids this weekend.
Rosemary
Hello Rhoda! Nice to meet you! I have been seeing your lovely mug/comments as well, and have been meaning to stop by and say hi! Thanks for coming to visit! What a lovely “home” (blog) you have over here! Will get ya added so I can pop back in! Isn’t Ree just the best? Her recent chapters about meeting MM have been so hard! Meaning, that I hang on to every word and then “to be continued…” It’s killing me! Darn, Darn….
Isn’t Ree the best and Marlboro Man isn’t hard to look either! Love it when she cooks!!! Her gravy post made be crave biscuits and gravy all week! Her Guacamole recipe is fool proof.
TGIF
I have all the ingredients for that dish and I did promise my husband shrimp this weekend. I’ll be giving that recipe a try. Thanks!
Looks soooo yummy! And thank you for the link! =) Happy Weekend!!!
Rhoda, I just read the instructions you left me for the pattern background for the blog. Are you a computer genius or what? I can’t even get my mind around what you told me! Maybe I’ll try tomorrow when my brain is a little fresher. Thanks a bunch. Jacki
Thanks for the great tip…I’ll have to check out this Pioneer Woman!
Have a great weekend and enjoy those kids visiting.
Hey Rhoda!
Hope you have a great weekend. I bet it’s really getting to be nice up there.
Donna