Seafood Pasta in a White Wine Sauce

I love white wine sauce. It's easy and delicious.

What you'll need

1 lbs Trader Joes seafood blend (or 1lbs of shrimp/scallops/calamari)

1/4 cup dry white wine (if you'd drink it, cook with it)

2 Tbs butter

2 garlic cloves minced

1 lbs orecchiette pasta (or another funky shape)

4 fresh thyme sprigs (or 1/2 tsp or the dry stuff)

Handful of frozen peas (I realized I didn't have any, but I did have edamame, that works!)

1 Tbs of chicken soup base

1 chopped green onion

First thaw your seafood in cool to lukewarm water. This could take 15 minutes or more.

I thought this pasta shape looked cool. A funky shaped pasta just adds that little something extra to a meal. Plus I haven't learned how to make funky shaped pasta yet, so I'm going with the dry stuff.

Now melt the butter. Go for medium-low heat and keep an eye on it. You don't want to burn your butter. This is what it looks like melted.

Start boiling your water to cook the pasta.
Now add the garlic.

 Add the peas/edamame and turn the heat up a small amount. Add your wine.

Then add your seafood. It will cook pretty quickly. In my opinion, it's better to have these guys a little on the under done side vs too done. Stir it to make sure it's cooking evenly.

 Pasta's done!

 Drain the pasta and add it to your seafood mix.

For a boost of flavor, I add some chicken soup base.
You'll know the shrimp is done when it turns pink.

Mix it all together and make sure the soup base melts evenly in the pasta-you don't want to bite into just a chunk of that on it's own.
Sprinkle with some green onion and smile because octopus is delicious.