Imitation Low Country Boil Recipe

Hello, folks! Today we're bringing you another quick and easy recipe!

Here's what you need to get started:
Shrimp: peeled, deveined, cooked
Sausage: the long tube kind, not the kind that looks like ground beef
Potatoes (as many as you feel like eating. On this occasion I used 4--2 medium and 2 very small.)
Cajun Seasoning
1/2 stick Butter
pinch of Salt and Pepper
1/4 Onion
optional: Corn, Peppers

To prepare:

Chop the onion into desired size pieces. I don't like biting into a huge chunk of onion so I cut mine fairly small.

Slice sausage into disks. I usually aim for disks about half an inch thick.

Peel and chop potatoes. I have several notes about this. 

1. You do not have to peel the potatoes if you like potato skins. I don't prefer it, but if you do--go ahead and leave it on!

2. If you use a less starchy potato, like a red potato, you will not get a mushy product. It will still taste great, it just won't look like the final pictures below!

3. The larger the potato slices, the longer it will take to cook. The size of the potatoes below had to boil about 10 minutes longer than usual because I left them so big.

To cook:

Dump all your cut up ingredients and the shrimp into a pot of water. 

Bring water to a boil.

Wait about 15 minutes.

To check to see if your food is done, pull out a potato wedge. Cut a portion off. If it is extremely soft, it is ready. You can also taste it. It should have the texture of...a potato. What's so great about this recipe is that the only portion that is not cooked is the potato and onion. You really only have to boil the ingredients as long as it takes to soften those two things up. The rest is already cooked--you're just heating it up!

Waiting for the food to boil. 

Once the potatoes are cooked all the way through, drain the pot into a colander.  Put all the food back in the pot. We still have to add butter and seasoning!

Add the half stick of butter and seasoning. I have no exact measurement for the seasoning--it's just to taste. I like to lightly cover the whole thing with a thin layer of seasoning. Then add a pinch of salt and pepper.

Finally, mix it all together, serve, and enjoy!

It's warm and delicious for these cold winter days. My husband hates soup so this is a great alternative for when I'm feeling like cozy foods!