Cranberry Apple Coleslaw – an easy homemade coleslaw that you can make ahead of time, and bring to any summer get together. Or serve at home with just about anything! If I ask you to think of a few summer side dishes, a few things come to mine; corn on the cob, pasta salad and…
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Cucumber Tomato Salad Recipe
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…
Best Potato Salad Recipe
Best Potato Salad Recipe – an easy and over the top potato salad that is perfect for summer cookouts, pot lucks, or just a weeknight side dish! Summer is here and that means all sorts of potlucks, backyard barbecues, grilling out, and just fun foods. I am always looking for Grilling Ideas for Dinner, because…
Asian Salad
Asian Salad – the classic Asian ramen noodle salad using a homemade dressing – no seasoning packet necessary! Quick, easy, and great with any meal. In the summer it seems like every weekend is filled with a get together of some kind. You always need to come up with a dish to bring to a…
Fall Couscous Salad
Fall Couscous Salad – Israeli couscous, spinach, butternut squash. cranberries and pecans all tossed with a balsamic vinaigrette. Great fall salad for the holidays, potlucks, or just because. I love squash season. As soon as fall hits, and squash is available in the store, I start to stock up. My family usually likes butternut squash…
Apple Broccoli Salad Recipe
Broccoli Salad Recipe – roasted broccoli salad with bacon, apples, cranberries, almonds, sunflower seeds and a creamy poppy seed dressing! I am going to be honest with you and say I have never really liked broccoli salad. But all that changed about a few months ago, when I tried Barefeet in the Kitchen’s Irresistible Mandarin…
Southwestern Chickpea Salad
Southwestern Chickpea Salad Southwestern Chickpea Salad – chickpeas and black beans with corn and avocado in a Southwestern style dressing. A great healthy and fresh summer side dish. I think by now everyone knows that I am in love with Southwestern and Mexican flavors. They are pretty much my go to any night of…
Garlic & Herb Mediterranean Salad
The Only Mediterranean Salad Recipe You Need This Summer Garlic & Herb Mediterranean Salad – A crisp salad with garlic & herb tilapia and lemon garlic vinaigrette. Do you eat a lot of salads? I should probably eat more than I do. I always think salads are better when I order them at restaurants, but…
Chicken Fajita Salad
Chicken Fajita Salad Chicken Fajita Salad – a hearty salad topped with grilled chicken, peppers, onion, avocados, and a salsa vinaigrette dressing. Definitely not your average salad! Summer is here, and with that comes swimsuits, tank tops, shorts, and all sorts of time outdoors. I love all the time outdoors, parties with friends, and the…
Taco Pasta Salad Recipe
Taco Pasta Salad – a creamy pasta salad with all your favorite taco toppings! Great to make ahead and have in the fridge for dinner or to take to any get together. Summer seems to be the season for entertaining. Maybe even more so than the holidays. It seems that every weekend we have a…
Asian Napa Cabbage Slaw
Asian Napa Cabbage Slaw – a crunchy cabbage slaw salad with lots of veggies and a creamy Asian style soy dressing. Great for lunches, get togethers or with your next barbecue. I can’t believe that we are at the end of April already. This year is just flying by. Only one month of school left!…
Balela Salad (Mediterranean Chickpea Salad)
Balela Salad (Mediterranean Chickpea Salad) – a Mediterranean salad made with chickpeas, black beans, lots of fresh herbs and lemon juice. Super healthy and great as a dip or side dish. Today my 11 year old and I are flying back to Colorado. We have spent the last week and a half in Wisconsin visiting…
Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
Mediterranean Quinoa Salad – a light and fresh quinoa salad with tomatoes, green olives and tossed with a lemon vinaigrette. Great warm or cold all year round! We have talked side dishes before, and how I struggle with what to make. In the summer I am all about making pasta salad or some kind of…
Grilled Chicken Antipasto Salad
Grilled Chicken Antipasto Salad – An easy salad that comes together in minutes thanks to Tyson® Chicken and Wish-Bone® Italian Dressing. This weekend was my husband’s birthday. We spent the weekend doing some of this favorite things, and eating lots of his favorite foods. This is his last year in his 30’s, so I…
Potstickers Asian Chopped Salad
Potstickers Asian Chopped Salad – A chopped salad topped with potstickers and an Asian peanut dressing. A fun twist on an Asian Chopped Salad! We are supposed to get snow today. I realize we are almost to mid November, but I am still not really OK with this. I am a wimp when it comes to…
Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette
Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette – Dress up your salads by turning classic balsamic vinaigrette in a healthy creamy balsamic dressing. Today is my 14th wedding anniversary!! We went out to dinner last night to celebrate. I have to say, I can not believe it has been 14 years. I have known my husband since I was…
Cafe Rio Dressing
Cafe Rio dressing you can make at home! Get excited, because it is SO good! Are you a fan of Café Rio? If you have one in your town or have ever been, then you know exactly what this recipe is. And I bet you’re excited about it. Café Rio has somewhat of a cult…
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…
Thai Chicken Salad
Thai Chicken Salad – turn up your salad game with a Thai style chopped salad. Topped with chicken, veggies, and a peanut dressing make for a filling salad. The weather is finally warming up and feeling like summer here in Colorado. We had a very wet and cold spring. Hard to believe that 10 days…