Another simple, yummy salad that is great for summer nights. Make a big batch of BBQ chicken and then enjoy the leftovers for this salad. Of course you can experiment and add whatever fixin’s you like! Continue reading BBQ Chicken Salad
I have been a bad blogger. It’s been almost a month since I posted something. It’s not that I haven’t been cooking, I have! It’s just the combo of being really busy and enjoying the summer. Spending nights eating outside on the pool deck and taking advantage of hot summer nights. Continue reading BBQ Chicken
Here is my newest favorite lunch obsession. I make a batch and eat it for lunch for a few days. It’s soooooooooooo yummy and also low calorie and healthy, but honestly do you care if it’s healthy if it doesn’t taste good? I sure as hell don’t! Continue reading Zucchini Succotash with Chicken & Pesto
This is one of my favorite summer go to recipes, from my all-time favorite Summer grilling cookbook, Boy Meets Grill. Have you ever fallen in love with a cookbook so much that the pages are all dirty, the binding breaks and you have sticky notes on every other page of all the recipes you just have to try? Well, this is that cookbook for me, no lie see below! Continue reading Grilled Shrimp with Grilled Tomato Cocktail Sauce
I <3 this salad! Corn, tomatoes, blue cheese, bacon? Hello! It’s a great side dish for the summer grilling season. Sometimes I like to add avocado too. Super quick and easy, this ia a must make! Continue reading Tomato Corn Salad
I have mentioned many times how much I love pasta. Pesto is just another excuse to eat pasta (not that I need to work hard to find an excuse to eat pasta!~). Once you get the hang of making pesto, you can easily create your own recipe anytime. The basic premise is herbs, a little garlic, some type of toasted nuts, olive oil and a little cheese. I have also found that a tiny drizzle (I do mean tiny!) of very good sherry vinegar adds a nice touch. Continue reading Pistachio Pesto
Is it over dramatic to say this dressing will change your life? Ok, fine, this dressing will change your salad greens for life! This dressing will turn you into a salad lover? Continue reading Shallot Vinaigrette
I love salads. This is one of my favorites and I make it a lot in the summer. You can work with whatever you have on hand. If I have left over corn on the cob in the summer, I will slice it off the cob and add it to salads. I also like to have some black beans in as well. You can add any vegetables you like, use up what’s in that produce drawer!
You want to make sure you season the chicken really well so that each bite has some of the Cajun seasoning on it. Enjoy! Continue reading Southwest Chicken Salad
I love homemade salad dressings and I am here to tell you, it is so easy and no big deal to make your own homemade dressing. Most will keep for up to 3 weeks in the refrigerator and when you make it yourself it isn’t going to include all kinds of weird chemical ingredients that you cannot pronounce!
This is one of my favorites. Feel free to work with it a bit. Maybe you like a little more mustard, or a little more cumin. Whatever. Make the recipe as is, then add a little more of whatever you fancy! I love making and keeping my dressings in mason jars. It’s the best way to really bring it together and makes it easy to use it the 2nd and 3rd time. Continue reading Honey Mustard Dressing
So, my latest sandwich-kick idea is an Italian Panini. A Panini is an italian sandwich, that is cooked and pressed, so that the outside of the bread is a little crunchy and the inside is warm and gooey from melted cheese. Is there any way that you could put melted cheese inside foccacia rolls, melt it and it wasn’t going to taste good? I think not.
There’s a lot of different things you could do here. Add some chicken. Fontina instead of provolone. Mix pesto into a little mayo and have pesto mayo. Add soppresetta. Add hot peppers. You get the drill. Continue reading Italian Panini