Cucumber Tomato Salad – Easy summer salads are the perfect side dish and great for potlucks. This cucumber salad is full of cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, and avocado tossed with a light vinaigrette dressing. I love summer salads. They can be pasta salad, like taco pasta salad, or a lettuce based salad, or even a corn…
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Guacamole
Homemade Guacamole – super easy guacamole recipe with ripe avocados, tomatoes, onions and a couple spices. Perfect with quesadillas, tacos or just with tortilla chips. I have loved guacamole as long as I can remember. When I was growing up, we always had Mexican food on Sunday. And homemade guacamole was usually on the menu. …
Avocado Chicken Bites
Avocado Chicken Bites – Need a fun chicken appetizer for a party or get together. These are filled with fresh avocado, spicy salsa chicken, and topped with cilantro. Great for snacking or entertaining! It is hard to believe that Mother’s Day is this weekend!! Are you ready? Did you remember to order mom a present…
Shrimp Cakes
Shrimp Cakes Shrimp Cakes with Corn and Avocado Salsa – Put a twist on classic crab cakes by using shrimp! Top with corn and avocado salsa for a buttery and slightly spicy kick! When I was a kid I loved shrimp! I mean, went crazy for popcorn shrimp. Then something happened around age 13 and…
Chicken Skewers
Chicken Skewers Chicken Skewers – tender pieces of chicken marinated with lots of lime juice and chipotle, then grilled and served with an avocado dipping sauce. I love grilling out in the summer. If I had my way I would grill out pretty much every night. No need to ever turn on the oven. Maybe…
Corn and Radish Salad
Corn and Radish Salad – An easy radish and corn salad topped with an avocado dressing. Great use of summer produce! What a busy weekend! It was our first weekend in forever that we didn’t have plans. But it turned into a busy and exhausting weekend! We wen up to Rocky Mountain National Park and…
Southwestern Cobb Salad
Southwestern Cobb Salad – A classic Cobb salad with a Southwestern, tex-mex twist! Topped with a creamy cilantro lime dressing for a hearty, filling, and delicious salad. Summer is all about eating better and not trying to heat up your house. Thankfully, you can use the grill and achieve both of these goals at…
Southwestern Chicken Pasta
Southwestern Chicken Pasta – A creamy southwestern style pasta with black beans, corn, chicken and tons of flavor. All made with a gluten-free pasta (trust me, you would never know). I think things are finally back to normal around here, after being gone for 6 weeks. The hardest part of me is getting back…
Bacon, Corn & Avocado Pasta
We are in the last few days of August. Hard to believe how fast the summer flew by. This weekend my husband and I celebrate 13 years of marriage. We actually have a friend who is going to watch our 9 year old so we can go out! Not sure what we are doing yet,…
Southwestern Corn Salad
Southwestern Corn Salad – Corn with bacon, avocado, and tomatoes in a creamy Southwestern style dressing. Great side dish with almost any summer meal! Apparently summer days are hard when you are 9 years old. You have all this stuff in your head that you want to do, but within a couple hours of waking up…
BLT Bacon Wrapped Hot dogs
BLT Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs – Crispy bacon wrapped hot dogs topped with lettuce, tomato, avocado, and a spicy Sriracha ranch. Hot dogs are kind of a staple at most American barbeques in the summer. Often times there are choices between hot dogs, hamburgers, and brats. At least in Wisconsin brats are always on the…
Avocado Chicken Salad Wrap
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sargento Foods, Inc.. All opinions are 100% mine. What do you normally do for lunch? Do you go out everyday? Do you bring leftovers? Do you skip it? According to a survey by Right Management, only a third of American workers say they actually…
Chicken Club Eggrolls
I must admit I am not really a fan of eggrolls. At least the traditional Chinese version. I like the idea of them, I just can’t find one that I like. We have a friend who makes traditional Vietnamese eggrolls, and those I like. Apparently I like lots of meat 🙂 Those are mainly ground…
Avocado Scrambled Eggs
It may surprise you to know that breakfast is my least favorite meal of the day. I love a good muffin or pastry, but realistically I can’t eat that every day. So finding a healthy breakfast each morning frustrates me sometimes. I tend to find one thing I like, and then do that every day…
Avocado Bruschetta
I could pretty much live on avocados. I eat them on or in just about anything. So the other day when we were trying to think of a light dinner and my husband suggested Bruschetta, I knew exactly what I was going to do. We had lots of tomatoes from the garden that needed to…
Carnita Pizza
We are slowly getting out for underneath the boxes. Half of our stuff never got unpacked in the townhouse, because we knew we were moving within 9 months. It is nice to find some of this stuff again! My in laws get here in a couple days, so there is still lots that needs to…
Mexican Quinoa Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing
I am happy to be back with #SundaySupper this week. This is only my second time joining them, but it is such a supportive and great group to be a part of. Today we are celebrating the 4th of July. Seriously, check out all the amazing recipes at the end of this post. I am…
Bacon Avocado Grilled Cheese
We are driving back to Colorado today. It has been a great trip. We were able to spend lots of time in Wisconsin with our parents. Then we stopped in Iowa for a couple days and spent some time with friends. I am very glad we were able to make this trip this summer. Today…
Baja Shrimp Tacos
Baja Shrimp Tacos – a fun twist on taco night based on Red Robin’s recipe. Slightly spice shrimp with a chipotle lime sauce! A couple weeks ago we went out to lunch to celebrate my husband’s birthday. We were at Red Robin, and they had a display for baja shrimp tacos, that sounded interesting….
BLAT's and Award
BLAT’s are one of my favorites in the summer. It isn’t traditional I know. People think I am strange, and don’t know what I am talking about. But the A is for Avocado! It goes perfect on a BLT. But then it really isn’t a BLT anymore is it? So I have to call it…