Today I’m joining some talented hostesses for their recommended soup and salad recipes. I’m sharing a delicious, lemony Shrimp Orzo Salad with Kalamata olives, bell pepper, feta cheese, and mint. It makes a great main course salad, that you can cut in half for two people or double for a crowd.
Recently, we had a simple weeknight dinner party for four and served the Lemony Shrimp Orzo Salad with warm Oatmeal, Cranberry, and Chocolate Chunk cookies for dessert.
Mayport Shrimp
Here in Jacksonville, Florida, Mayport Shrimp is caught locally at the mouth of the St. Johns River, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. Super fresh! But you can also get great shrimp flash frozen in your supermarket.
Lemony Shrimp Orzo Salad With Olives, Feta, and Arugula
Do you follow The View From The Great Island? Sue Moran writes the blog and I find her recipes to be easy and creative. You will want to pin this one!
Giada’s Oatmeal Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These are BIG cookies! You use an ice cream scoop and then slightly flatten the cookies before baking.
They actually seem sort of healthy 🙂 I took some while still warm to a neighbor who just had a baby.
And I confess they taste GREAT with coffee for breakfast.
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Let’s check out these creative recipes!
Blogger’s Best Soup and Salad Recipes
- Creamy Cauliflower and Cheddar Soup | Twelve on Main
- Easy Taco Soup Slow Cooker Recipe | Inspiration for Moms
- Lemony Shrimp, Orzo, Kalamata Salad | Classic Casual Home
- Japanese Cucumber Salad Recipe (Sunomono) | Happy Happy Nester
- Easy Tuscan Winter Soup | Most Lovely Things
- Sweet Corn Gazpacho Soup | Paint Me Pink
- Overnight Crockpot French Onion Soup | My Sweet Savannah
- Quick and Easy Tomato Soup with Salsa Verde | Make Mine A Spritzer
- The Best Peanut Soup and Salad Recpe | My 100-Year-Old Home
- Greek Lemon Orzo Soup | Eleanor Rose Home
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Mary Ann, this salad looks so refreshing and delicious! Pinning for later!
Looks so delicious Mary Ann and your table is lovely too. I need to make those cookies.
Looks so delicious, Mary Ann!
Cookies are delicious – I had to make them this very day. 🙂
Looks delicious and I love how you set your table!
Thanks, Melaine!
This salad looks so delicious Mary Ann, and those cookies look incredible! Thank you for sharing, pinning for later!!!
MA … first of all your table setting. Gorgeous. Lucky dinner guests … this salad looks amazing and I’ve pinned and printed. Hope everyone saved room for dessert. Yum! xo
I’m going to make your soup ASAP, Juliet.
I can’t wait to make this salad, every ingredient is something I love and we have a wonderful fish market here that has the freshest shrimp. I immediately signed up for Karen Morgan’s website, her recipes look delicious, especially her desserts which I have a weakness for! Looking forward to checking out all the other bloggers recipes!
I hope Kenny likes it too!
Thank you for sharing Susan Moran’s website — it’s always wonderful to find new recipes and these look right up my alley!
She’s good Carol!
Your cookies look delicious! As for the salad it looks great too, but hold the shrimp on mine. Have a wonderful week Mary Ann!
Mary Ann,
Your salad is so vibrant! Your table is gorgeous, and those cookies…yum! xx