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Tropical Shrimp Salad

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I made the yummiest salad this week using a recipe from the great cooking magazine, Louisiana Cookin’. (For the original recipe, see www.louisianacookin.com/shrimp-mango-ceviche/.) The recipe was entitled “Shrimp and Mango Ceviche,” but in my book, it wasn’t really a ceviche because it didn’t start with raw seafood “cooked” in citrus juices. Plus, it had mayo, which no self-respecting ceviche should have. I made a few tweaks to the recipe and renamed it “Tropical Shrimp Salad” to better represent what I think the salad should be called.

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Corn and Fettuccini Salad

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Last week, I had several friends over for a Crafts & Cocktails day. We made mixed media art, drank some mango mimosas, and ate this easy lunch salad. Dan the Man and I have had the recipe forever; it first came out of theĀ Houston Cronicle. It’s yummy, and it makes a perfect lunch with a side of salad (fruit salad, this particular day, but green salad would work well, too). Read the rest of this entry