CREAMY SHRIMP BISQUE IS THE SOUP YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING THIS FALL! IT’S LOADED WITH SHRIMP AND HAS A BIT OF A KICK COMPLIMENTS OF THE CREOLE SEASONING.

Life Lately

I have to admit that by the time school starts every year I look forward to a routine again. The one that begins with my kids getting up and eating breakfast in a timely fashion and ends with some fun laid back after school activities, cozy dinner and family movie night…hahahahahahah!!

I have no idea where my perfect idea of routine comes from but it comes around every year and every fall I am barely staying on top of it all. Things have actually relaxed a lot lately after fall soccer ended (yes I mean you 4 nights a week soccer club!) but they I still feel like we are running around constantly but it’s good cause we have been doing a ton of stuff…good stuff like motocross races, school activities, and meeting up with family.

Then comes the end of daylight savings time and I’m over here like what do I do at 5pm other than sit in my PJs and watch Hallmark movies?? Well, our Harry Potter series is soon to start (annual tradition at the Davidsons) and we are all getting pumped up. By all, I mean me and my husband because the kids haven’t made it past the first one.

Soup Season is Upon Us Among Other Things

Well, besides Harry Potter I also like to get my soup game going in full gear. If you open my fridge during the fall and don’t see at least two containers of leftover soup then you know it’s an off week because I literally live for soup season. My husband always stops himself when he asks me to make one over again because he knows another good one is coming along.

This shrimp bisque recipe is a favorite of mine because it’s my mom’s recipe and that basically means it’s a Martha Stewart kind-of-wonderful-creation. I initially posted this back in 2015. I would post a picture from then but it was pretty yellow and just minus the pretty so it’s been put away in the vault.

I made a couple teeny tiny adjustments to it as well just to make it more delicious and convenient. For instance, I just never ever use green onions in my day to day recipes and so when I buy them for this soup the remaining ones rarely get used and so I switched that up a bit. Also, and this is a little bit bigger of a deal- I swear by using raw shrimp as opposed to the pre-cooked kind! It really does make a HUGE difference for me at least.

Side note- do not and I repeat do not cook your shrimp with the tails on. I did this purely for more photogenic shrimp. I spent a good 20 minutes pulling off tails and digging out parts of tails from the skillet that fell off during the cooking process.

I have been holding off for some time on this shrimp bisque but when the temp was freezing and the wind was out of control, I knew it was time. Oh, and in case you are wondering my kids aren’t shrimp bisque fans but I like to keep the meals similar and so they had POPCORN SHRIMP!! Haha!

This soup is a full-blown winter has arrived kind of soup. It’s a bit spicy, is filling, and warms you up right away. I can attest to all of this because I have been eating it for years! I don’t bother with a side salad or half a sandwich to go with it because it’s pretty filling by itself. I just add a side of delicious toasted bread. I’m not sure it’s possible for me to eat soup without a side of bread for dunking. I live for bread dunking.

If you give this creamy shrimp bisque a go, be sure to rate it below and let me know what you think I would really appreciate it! Hope you love it!