Happy Monday! Back to the grind 
I’m planning on having an incredibly productive week filled with tons and tons of work. I had an amazingly relaxing fabulous weekend, so I feel ready to tackle everything. Plus, Chris’s mom is coming to visit us at the end of the week! We’ve got all kinds of things planned, like a trip to Maine and a visit to our wedding venue, so she can see it Also, I’m sure we’ll involve lots and lots of good food.
I’ve mentioned it here before, but project “cut recipes out of food magazines and organize” is now going on 2+ years. I’ve successfully gone through every one of my food magazines (I had A LOT. Like over 100 that I’ve been collecting for years). I’ve been finding so many fabulous recipes in the magazine, I feel like I could plan my dinners (and desserts… and drinks) for the next couple months. Now I just need to put them all in my big recipe book. Sigh. Basically, this is what my living room table looks like right now:
This summer is most definitely going to be the summer of the shrimp. Chris and I are both pretty obsessed with shrimp and I’ve found about 50 million recipes I want to make with it. This one I spotted in Cooking Light and I have to say it’s pretty awesome. In fact, Chris actually called it the best meal he’s had since my dad made corned beef. And considering he ate about 5 lbs. of the corned beef, I’ll take that as a compliment.
This dish is perfect for the (hopefully) impending summer weather. All I want to do is sit on the deck and watch the setting sun while eating this. Also, make sure you scroll down to see the accompanying avocado, mango, and pineapple salad. It rounds out the meal quite well!
Spicy Chipotle Shrimp Salad (serves 2):
Adapted from Cooking Light
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• 3/4 lb. shrimp, deveined
• 1/8 t salt
• 1/8 t pepper
• Cooking spray
• 1/4 C celery, finely chopped
• 2 T red onion, finely chopped
• 2 T fresh cilantro, chopped
• 2 T light mayonnaise
• 1 T chipotle chile in adobo, chopped
• 2 t fresh lime juice
• 1/2 t ground cumin
• 4 Boston lettuce leaves
Start by sprinkling your shrimp with salt and pepper. I’ve always learned that it’s best to cook shrimp in its shell because much of the flavor will be retained. So, that’s what I did here. Especially since I knew I’d be cooling the shrimp before serving, which meant it would be easy to peel them.
Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat and coat the pan with cooking spray. Add the shrimp to the pan (do it in batches if it doesn’t all fit) and cook for about 2 minutes on each side.
Let shrimp cool for about 5 minutes, while you grill your fruit. The directions for preparing the rest of the salad are below as well.
Avocado, Mango, and Pineapple Salad:
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• 1/2 C pineapple slices
• 1 C sliced mango
• 1/2 avocado, peeled and sliced
• 1.5 T fresh lime juice
Heat the grill pan over medium high heat. Add the pineapple and mango slices and cook for about 3 minutes on each side, until browned.
Combine grilled fruit with avocado slices and squeeze lemon over.
Now, place the shrimp in a medium bowl and stir in celery, red onion, cilantro, mayo, chipotle chile, lime juice, and cumin.
Arrange 2 Boston lettuce leaves on each plate and top with half the shrimp salad. Put the avocado, mango, and pineapple salad on the side.
As you could probably tell, this was amazingly easy to make. You literally grill the shrimp and mix it with a bunch of things in a bowl. But as simple as it was, it was absolutely satisfying and delicious. And healthy, too!
And the grilled fruit was awesome on the side. I already have a huge mango obsession, but grilling it? My obsession has been taken to a whole new level!
It does say “spicy” in the recipe name, but you can totally control the level of spice by how much of the chipotle chile you use. Add less if you don’t like it spicy, or add a bit more if you love a good kick. Hint: I added more.
Whatever you do, just make this this summer.
Also, expect to see a whole lot more shrimp on this blog in the coming months. Let the summer of shrimp begin! Oh, and by the way, I’ve spotted TONS of drink recipes I’m excited to experiment with… So, it will be the summer of drinks, too
How about you? Fill in the blank: “I’m going to have the summer of ____”
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I’ve been trying to do the same with all of my food magazines…and my recipe binder is huge! I will say that it is definitely inspiring more creative dishes in my kitchen.
Great recipe, girls!
I need to organize the recipes I’ve dog-earred in magazines too! The stack under my coffee table is RIDICULOUS!
Love shrimp… what a perfect dish for a warm day!
I’m going to have a summer of fun, food, and fire…..got back into fire spinning as of this weekend.. plan on doing it as much as possible during the summer!!
LOVE this recipe…but I’m a sucker for anything chipotle!!
So glad to hear you had a nice weekend
I need some sleep, so I’m a little jealous 
. mmm shrimp. And the Avocado, Mango, and Pineapple Salad sounds amazing. Mango is so good. I’m going to have the summer of baby prep & arrival 
I am also really into shrimp these days! They’re just so quick and easy – and perfectly light for summer.
Oh that just looks so yummy and wonderful and perfect and I want it right now. It also makes me want summer right now!
Laura
More please.
I am pretty sure I have that same recipe pulled out in my giant magazine pile!
I went a little overboard with the buy one get one free frozen shrimp sale this weekend so this is perrrfect. A lot of favorite things on one plate and you make it look so easy!
Fantastic!
Im going to have the summer of peanut butter FROZEN YOGURT
Yum, those grill marks are fantastic. This is going to be the summer of orzo salads, white wine and relaxing on the patio!
This looks like such a great summertime dish – I especially like the looks of the mango/pineapple/avocado salad!
I tell myself every time I have have some free time that I should embark on project organize recipes from magazine, but somehow I always find far more amusing things to do!
I love grilled anything, but have never tried grilled mango! MUST TRY! Gosh, I love spicy shrimp, too. Yum.
Your enthusiasm is contagious. I want a week filled with loads of work! That sounds awesome. I also like the looks of that grilled pineapple. Yum.
Snaps to you for working through all those magazines. Whenever I vow to do that I get sidetracked and start cooking instead of clipping.
This salad looks WOW! Must try!!
I love shrimp in my salad!
I’m loooving shrimp lately too–but not the price! It was $17 at my local grocery store. Maybe over in Boston it’s less since it’s closer to the shore? Even more reasons why I miss my dear city…
This looks delicious! I brought back some dried chipotles and some green chile sugar from the Whole Foods flagship in Austin. After seeing these gorgeous photos, I’m feeling the need to make shrimp…
I’m going to have a summer full of wedding planning
And this salad! ha I just did the organizing of recipes last weekend.. it was liberating! I highly recommend it! I can’t wait to try this fabulously summery dish!
That looks sooooo good!! Can’t wait to see you guys!! Blog on!
I’m going to have the summer of ice cream!
SIgh. Pretend you didn’t hear that.
Hopefully, I’ll have the summer of zucchini or some other healthy vegetable. (But really I want to be having the summer of ice cream all day every day.)
This shrimp looks delicious! Love the smoky chipotle.
this looks fabulous….so fresh & tasty!
Another Cooking Light, I love it! I want to get a little grill for my apartment. Summer grilling is something I look forward to, and next year I’m moving into a house, so it’s about time I got a grill.
Summer of Shrimp, I’m ready for that!
I’m going to have the summer of exploratory grilling of nontraditional things fining their way to the grill. Look for them throughout the summer at http://www.starvingkitten.com