Shrimpy Pasta

Happy Thursday! I decided to take tomorrow off work so I guess today is my Friday! After work today, I taught Body Step. Class went much better than Turbo yesterday :). For dinner tonight, I took inspiration from this Giada recipe, but made quite a few adjustments:

Shrimpy Pasta

Ingredients:
1 lb shrimp (uncooked, peeled, deveined, and tails removed)
1 lb whole wheat pasta
1 15-oz can mandarin oranges (stored in water not syrup)
desired amount of fresh spinach
desired amount of Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
Favorite seasoning (salt, pepper, whatever you like- I used Cavenders seasoning)

Directions:
Boil two large pots of water. In the first pot, add the pasta and cook as directed, reserve 1/2 cup cooking liquid, drain pasta. In the second pot, add the shrimp and cook until fully pink, drain. Meanwhile, in a large bowl whisk together olive oil and lemon juice, add in desired amount of seasoning, add in pasta, shrimp, fresh spinach, mandarin oranges, reserved cooking liquid and mix until everything is fully coated with the dressing. Top with Parmesan cheese! Enjoy!