Freshly made potato salad is the recipe hot summer days are made for. Bright scents of fresh dill fill the air while crisp crunches of pepper and carrot from the local farmer’s market make your taste buds do a happy dance. Perfect for potlucks, picnics, or any day it’s just a bit too hot to…
Chicken Waldorf Salad is a fresh and filling salad packed with vibrant flavors of apple, lemon and grapes. Perfect for a lite lunch or hot summer day dinner. Crunchy celery and walnuts pair wonderfully with the creamy homemade dressing and cold chicken or turkey meat. What is Chicken Waldorf Salad? This creamy, crunchy chicken salad…
Chicken Pesto Pasta is the perfect crowd-pleasing dinner or side. Serve it hot for a hearty pasta dinner dish, or bring it cold to your next family BBQ. Thrown together in just 30-minutes, this is a recipe you’ll come back to over and over again. The secret to the Best Chicken Pesto Pasta Recipe The…
Cold Asian Noodle Salad is one of the best ways to get a good helping of fresh veggies. This Asian salad is fresh and zingy. Perfect for both lunches and dinners. This cold Asian Noodle Salad is one of those recipes you can feel GOOD about. Don’t be put off that we call this a…
This orzo salad has bright, flavorful, and healthy summer vegetables tossed in a tangy tomato and basil vinaigrette dressing. It’s an easy pasta salad recipe without mayo, so it’s perfect for an outdoor picnic, potluck dinner, or summer holiday party! In addition to my recipe, scroll to the bottom of this post to get 15…
Apple coleslaw is a healthier coleslaw with apples, strawberries, cabbage and dried cherries. This strawberry-apple slaw has a sweet taste, without added sugar! What makes the strawberry-apple coleslaw dressing recipe healthier is that it’s made without mayo. Instead, this healthy side dish recipe has a fruity balsamic vinaigrette dressing! Disclosure: In exchange for writing this post, I received a free Chef’s…
Farro salad with citrus-basil vinagrette is one of my favorite heart healthy recipes. Once you try it, will likely become one of your favorites, too. Nutty, whole grain farro, dried cranberries, and fresh apples are tossed with a fresh and tangy vinaigrette. The texture and flavors in this salad will have you in side dish delight! During rough times in my…
Strawberry Spinach Salad is a healthy spring salad recipe, loaded with flavor and texture! Baby spinach, juicy strawberries, crispy bacon, crumbled blue cheese, and sliced almonds make this dinner salad filling and delicious. March 21st is California Strawberry Day, so let’s celebrate! Wait. Did you just say that you had no idea that today is California…
This raspberry vanilla vinaigrette dressing makes a sweet and tangy contribution to a boring salad, giving it a pop of color and fresh flavor. This recipe is part of the #vanillaweek celebration. If you haven’t entered the giveaway, click here to do so!
Quinoa fruit salad is perfect for any patriotic-themed holiday. This healthy salad recipe is vegan, gluten free, dairy free, protein-rich, and delicious! It’s my submission for day 2 of Kick Off to Summer Week, a multi-blogger event co-hosted by Lauren of From Gate to Plate and Summer of Summer Scraps. Memorial Day is less than 2…
Garden veggies will be popping up at midwest farmer’s markets very soon, so I decided to create this Garden Veggie Tuna Mac Salad, a recipe I adapted from one of my mom’s staple summer dinner recipes. When my mom made tuna mac salad (and she made it a lot), she’d add in whatever fresh veggies she…
This healthy reuben salad recipe is part of social shopper amplification that I participated in for Collective Bias and their advertiser, Pick ‘n Save. I’m a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. I was compensated for this post, but as always, all thoughts and opinions are my own. I love my local grocery…