Sloshed Shrimp and Tortellini

Shrimp sauteed with tomatoes and mushrooms in a red wine sauce, with cheese-stuffed tortellini.

Make your own tortellini if you want, but that's way too much grief for me. I just get the good fresh kind they keep in the chilled-shit section at the grocery store. Actually, I have a bad habit of eating those right out of the package.

5-7 medium raw shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 cup cheese tortellini, cooked and drained
4-5 grape tomatoes or 1 Campari or Roma tomato
A handful of chopped portobello mushroom
1 clove minced garlic
1 tbsp. olive oil
1/3 cup or so shiraz (or other red wine you happen to have around the house, but damn portobellos and shiraz do go well together)
Sprinkle of basil
Salt to taste

Chop up tomatoes and shrooms. Throw in saute pan with olive oil and garlic. Once tomatoes start to soften up, pour in the wine. Cook it down until you can sniff the steam rising from the pan and not get hit in the face with alcohol vapors. Add the shrimp, cook just till pink. Add tortellini, toss and saute just till the pasta gets sauce all over it. Dump into bowl, sprinkle a little basil and maybe some fresh grated parmesan on top, put in piehole.

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