Evan Longoria crowdsourced his grocery list and the results looked delicious

What is captivating about so many cooking competitions is how the chefs are able to create a beautiful and tasty dish -- if the judges are to be believed -- in a short amount of time with ingredients and constraints that they can't plan for in advance. For the rest of us, it is sometimes a struggle to get an edible meal on the table even with days of planning and unlimited prep time.
Evan Longoria is not like the rest of us. On Saturday, the Giants' third baseman decided to turn his dinner into his own personal cooking competition. Instead of being given a basket of mystery ingredients, he crowdsourced his grocery list on Instagram:

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Gimme some ideas!

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This process delivered a promising array of ingredients, which Longoria presumably pondered over in his subsequent trip to the batting cages:

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Ok, here’s everything I picked up. Now is where we get creative. I took all the ideas and this is what talked to me as I was walking around. I’m gonna go hit some baseballs now and I’ll be back in an hour to see what we can come up with!

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It was from those beginnings that Longoria worked his magic. The result was a three-course meal complete with appetizer, soup and a main dish.

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Ok so here’s the finished products. Nash and I crushed the blistered shishito peppers as an appetizer, I add salt, pepper, fresh lemon juice, ponzu, and sweet chili sauce to flavor them a bit. The shrimp are separate bc not everyone likes them. They have a lemon butter, white wine coconut broth over them and then I sprinkled the dried lime over the top after to keep with the Thai style theme. The soup is coconut curry broth w chicken, onion, carrot and dressed w everything you see. Thanks for following along!

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Next time you open your pantry to figure out what to make for dinner, it might be a good idea to seek inspiration by putting yourself in Longoria's shoes. From Saturday's exercise, it's clear he could come up with something scrumptious.