Monday, July 9, 2018

Layered Thai Shrimp Salad: Anti-Boredom Month Blog With Friends

Today’s post is the next in our series of Blog With Friends theme collaborations. Each month a group  of bloggers get together and each publish a project based on a theme. What I love about this partnership is that it’s not bloggers with similar interests or strengths but a diverse group coming up with a variety of posts. In any given month we may have a recipe, sewing tutorial, crafts projects, book review and/or a technology post all related to the theme of the month.


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This month's theme is Anti-Boredom Month.

There will be individual project pictures and links to what everyone else has to offer at the end of my post, but here’s a peek at what we all came up with:

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Anti-Boredom Month | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


I made Layered Thai Shrimp Salad.


Layered Thai Shrimp Salad uses leftover Thai marinated shrimp, mixed with cool crisp vegetables topped with a parmesan dressing for a flavorful summer meal. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #shrimp #dinner


Let me tell you why. Anti-boredom to me means thinking up new recipes. It's my way of being creative and of keeping occupied. It's fun for me, especially when the meal is a success. When it's not, well, it ends up being a joke that just keeps on giving. "Remember that time . . ."

There's another reason I chose this recipe for my anti-boredom post. It's because in my world, in the summer, anti-boredom means a day at the beach or a pool. It means getting out there with a family and enjoying cooling off together on a hot day. And since, once at home, showered off and sitting down to relax we need to eat, this meal is both make ahead and served cold, the perfect ending to a hot day.

It's even pretty enough to serve to company, if you want to invite friends over.

As I often do, I used leftovers for the base of this recipe. I had made my Thai Shrimp Skewers earlier in the week and deliberately created the leftovers for this dish by doubling the recipe.


Thai Shrimp Skewers, a quick, light and flavorful summer meal | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #dinner

I made my dressing and popped it in the fridge until I was ready for assembly if serving right away or to pour over the salad if serving later.


Layered Thai Shrimp Salad uses leftover Thai marinated shrimp, mixed with cool crisp vegetables topped with a parmesan dressing for a flavorful summer meal. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #shrimp #dinner


Then I prepped the rest of my salad ingredients, washing and chopping the lettuce, shredding the carrots, slicing the green onions, stemming the spinach, halving the tomatoes, clipping the chives and shaving the parmesan.

Layered Thai Shrimp Salad uses leftover Thai marinated shrimp, mixed with cool crisp vegetables topped with a parmesan dressing for a flavorful summer meal. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #shrimp #dinner



Once that was done, it was a simple matter of layering the salad. If you're serving it right away, include the dressing in the layers. If, you're serving later, don't add the dressing to the layers or it will wilt the lettuce and spinach. Just layer the vegetables, cheese and shrimp, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until meal time.

Layered Thai Shrimp Salad uses leftover Thai marinated shrimp, mixed with cool crisp vegetables topped with a parmesan dressing for a flavorful summer meal. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #shrimp #dinner


I recommend rounding out the dinner (or lunch) with a homemade quick bread, a favorite is my Cinnamon Nectarine Quick Bread, also made in advance.


Cinnamon Nectarine Quick Bread, a moist quick cinnamon crusted bread filled with cinnamon flavor and chunks of nectarines. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #bread #fruit


And as a special treat, end the evening with a slice of my Lemon Raspberry Ice Cream Cake


Lemon Raspberry Ice Cream Cake, a cool summer treat | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #dessert

You guessed it, made this ahead too. 

As always, any time you make one of my recipes, feel free to post a picture of it to my Baking In A Tornado Facebook Page. I'd love to see it!


Be sure to visit all of this month's other Blog With Friends projects:

Dawn of Spatulas on Parade shares her recipe for Buffalo Chicken Celery:

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Anti-Boredom Month | Buffalo Chicken Celery by Dawn of Spatulas on Parade | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


Jules of The Bergham Chronicles shares Boredom, Boredom, Go Away, a list of simple ways to beat boredom:
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Anti-Boredom Month | Boredom, Boredom, Go Away by Jules of The Bergham Chronicles | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com



Kim of Georgia Vegan Peach shares 5 Fun Vegan Recipes to Cure Mid-Summer Boredom:

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Anti-Boredom Month | Five Fun Vegan Recipes to Cure Mid-Summer Boredom by Kim of Georgia Vegan Peach | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com



Tamara of Part-Time Working Hockey Mom shares The "Hockey Mom, I'm bored" Bottle:

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Anti-Boredom Month | "Hockey Mom, I'm bored" Bottle by Tamara of Part-Time Working Hockey Mom | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com

 
Lydia of Cluttered Genius shares how to make the Easiest Scrapbook Ever:
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Anti-Boredom Month | Easiest Scrapbook Ever by Lydia of Cluttered Genius | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


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Layered Thai Shrimp Salad
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Ingredients:
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup sweet chili sauce
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1 tsp black pepper

1/2 head iceberg lettuce, cleaned and chopped
4 carrots, shredded
2 cups uncooked spinach, stems removed
1 cup chopped green onions
1 cup shaved Parmesan cheese
1 cup grape tomatoes, halved 
1 1/2# cooked shrimp from Thai Shrimp Skewers
1 TBSP chopped fresh chives

Directions:
*Whisk together the mayonnaise, sour cream, sweet chili sauce, grated Parmesan and black pepper. You can make this ahead of time, cover and refrigerate.
*NOTE: If serving right away, layer with the dressing. If refrigerating the salad to serve later, layer without the dressing so the lettuce and spinach don't wilt, then serve when ready with the dressing on the side.
*In a large glass bowl, layer the lettuce, 1/3 of the dressing, then the carrots and spinach followed by another 1/3 of the dressing. Top with the green onions, Parmesan and tomatoes. End with the rest of the dressing, the shrimp and the chives.
*When serving, use long serving utensils to be sure each serving includes all of the ingredients.  


12 comments:

  1. ooh woman that salad sounds good but give me the lemon raspberry ice cream cake! Hey...you forgot a cocktail.

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    1. Duh, what's wrong with me? I never forget the cocktail!

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  2. This all looks amazing! Can I come over?? :)

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  3. Shrimp is so versatile for summer and of course all year too but cold in a salad it is perfect! We have a banner lettuce crop and we are eating salad every day and I am eating left over salad for breakfast. A little grilled shrimp in the salad would be very nice!

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    1. Yes, so many delicious options for salad, which is perfect for this time of year.

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  4. That salad sounds heavenly, especially if the shrimps were grilled on the barbie! I'm all for making ahead.

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    1. More and more I've been making extras at dinner time and using the leftovers to create something new, love making 2 meals at once.

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  5. Boredom? What is that?
    I don't get bored

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  6. Boredom? Cooking is also something my husband would do. My cure is to eat his cooking! Seriously, hubbie is a big shrimp lover and he would love the sweet chili sauce. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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    1. I like your cure. And I hope he tries this recipe, sounds like it would be perfect for him.

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