Five minute miracle

 🍤 Shrimp & Garlic Butter Egg Noodles with Cherry Tomatoes and Fresh Basil 🌿

(The five-minute miracle that makes working from home bearable)

Sometimes you don’t want to cook — you just want to eat. This is that dish.

Five minutes, one pan, zero prep, and the smug satisfaction of having made something that looks like a holiday lunch in Amalfi.

🥢 The (barely a) recipe:

1. Boil fresh egg noodles — but don’t overdo it. Think al dente’s lazy cousin.

2. In a hot pan, toss the still-steaming noodles with raw shrimp, halved cherry tomatoes, and a heroic knob of garlic butter.

3. Stir just long enough for the shrimp to blush pink and the tomatoes to collapse into a glossy sauce.

4. Finish with shredded fresh basil, and a twist of black pepper.

The result is pure comfort — buttery, garlicky, slightly sweet from the tomatoes, lifted by that fresh basil hit. It’s the kind of weekday lunch that feels like cheating… because it is.

Perfect for a working-from-home lunch or a quick midweek supper when effort is not on the menu but pleasure absolutely is.