Budget-Friendly Tzatziki Chicken Salad: Fresh Mediterranean Flavor Plus an Important Hack to Make the Perfect Chicken Salad Enjoy our budget-friendly Tzatziki Chicken Salad recipe that combines tender chicken, creamy Greek yogurt, and fresh cucumbers for a healthy, flavorful meal. Learn how to make this Mediterranean-inspired dish with affordable ingredients in under 30 … [Read more...]
Bruschetta Pasta Salad
All the Delicious Italian Flavors of Your Favorite Appetizer in this 5-Ingredient Bruschetta Pasta Salad Take all the lovely and delightful flavors of the bread based Bruschetta appetizer and serve as a scrumptious pasta salad. All you need is small shell pasta, tomatoes, basil, Parmesan cheese and some balsamic vinaigrette dressing. Toss it all together and … [Read more...]
Best Summer Salad Recipes
The best summer salad recipes are cool, fresh, and easy to make! These are great for a family dinner or a potluck! Eating your summer salad in the sun or shade is super scrumptious, don't be silly sally! Savor the summer salad under a sunshade while sipping a shasta and singing songs. PARDON ME, and my alliterative moment there! No matter how you say it, and … [Read more...]
Tuna Pasta Salad
The Best Tuna Pasta Salad Recipe Ever! There's something about pasta salads that make me think of my grandma. And this Tuna Pasta Salad is the BEST! Every summer growing up, my family and I would "escape the TX heat" and spend a few weeks at my grandma's lake cabin deep in the woods of northern MN. Gorgeous country. Beautiful lake. Cozy cabin where my extended family … [Read more...]
Greek Pasta Salad with Homemade Dressing
I adore the Mediterranean flavors...so much so, that a visit to the Mediterranean is on my "someday travel bucket list." This simple, tasty and fresh pasta salad is loaded with flavor and completed with a homemade Greek vinaigrette dressing. If you've never made your own vinaigrette dressing, might I suggest you start with this one! Also, double up on this and then you'll … [Read more...]
Fall Harvest Salad with Maple Mustard Vinaigrette
A magical combination of flavors and textures make for the perfect Fall Harvest Salad! I predict you will soon be as obsessed with this flavorful autumn salad as I am. It strikes just the right balance of crunch and smooth plus sweet and salty. I have a great list of topping ideas AND...the maple mustard vinaigrette is super simple to make with … [Read more...]
Homemade Cherry Vinaigrette
Jazz up your next salad with this easy, tasty homemade cherry vinaigrette dressing! I love a delicious homemade vinaigrette and this one can be made year-round - either using cherries from the frozen food section, or fresh cherries that you score on sale (in the summer months.) Enjoy! Homemade Cherry Vinaigrette A fabulous and easy homemade … [Read more...]
Bacon & Spinach Salad with Homemade Dressing
Homemade vinaigrette using bacon fat...um, yes please. If you've never made a vinaigrette with the grease from the skillet after you've cooked bacon, you are missing out on the finer things in life. ;) You've cooked the bacon, you might as well use some of the salty-goodness to make a dressing, amiright?!?! This salad is hearty and filling and great for a dinner in, or … [Read more...]
Peach, Almond, Blue Cheese Salad
One of my favorite parts of summer...all of the amazing fresh produce and fun salads that you can "build." I think of salads as being "built." There's the lettuce base. There's something crunchy. There's something sweet-ish. There's something tangy. There's something creamy. There's the dressing. Sometimes there's the protein. In this case, we're … [Read more...]
Chicken Nacho Salad
I heart salads. And I'm really crushing hard on the crunchiness of this Chicken Nacho Salad. It's all that I love in a good plate of nachos...but mixed together as a salad. Sliced tomatoes, sliced avo, little shredded mozz tossed with some shredded chicken, romaine and crushed tortilla chips. Drizzle a vinaigrette over the top and you've got yourself a great and filling … [Read more...]