Soups, Salads and Sides
Spicy Tuesday – Southwestern Shredded Salad – Smoked Paprika
A shredded salad is a super way to create a one-platter meal full of veggies and color. When you toss up this salad, you’ll have rave reviews at dinner, and then you can tuck any leftovers in a pita pocket for lunch tomorrow. This salad’s easy dressing is made with...
Friday Four – Not Your Average Greek Inspired Salad – 081420
A yummy summer salad with a secret ingredient – that makes it yummy!
Spicy Tuesday – Green Goddess Dressing with Summer’s Best Tomatoes – Anchovies
We’ve been seeing SO many beautiful tomato photos on social media lately. So, this week we can’t resist passing on an easy recipe for one of tomato’s favorite partners, Green Goddess Dressing. When you read the recipe, you may say: “Anchovies…No Way!” But don’t be...
Spicy Tuesday – Grilled Summer Veggies with Lemon Tarragon Dressing
Summer is full of a bounty of veggies that are so good roasted or grilled! Squash, peppers, onions, eggplants, tomatoes…almost everything tastes better off the grill! Simply slice your veggies in long strips or pieces, trying to make sure they are approximately the...
Friday Four – Cool and Easy Roasted Red Pepper Gazpacho – 073120
Happy chilled soup for summer! I use roasted red peppers for this riff on gazpacho where they create another layer of flavor to the rich-ripe goodness of the soup.
Spicy Tuesday – Chilled Peach Soup – Mint
Wow - Its summer time and the living is HOT! Here’s a chilled soup that is cool and lightly sweet and fragrant with in-season peaches and the pop of mint. Easy to make, this soup will keep well in the fridge for 3 or 4 days. Not only is it fun as a soup for the...
Friday Four – Georgia Peach Chicken Salad – 072420
Woohoo – Its peach season – one of the most delicious times of the year!
Spicy Tuesday – Italian Bean Eaters Salad – Basil
If we were eating this salad together in Italy today, we would be called “mangifagioli” or bean eaters. You’ll be happy to be called a bean eater when you taste it - full of creamy white beans, bright basil flavors and a zesty lemon dressing. All these flavors add to...
Friday Four – Cherry Cashew Farro Salad – 071720
Sweet Cherries and Crunchy Cashews Combine in this awesome, easy salad!
Spicy Tuesday – Crisp and Crunchy Orange Coleslaw – Basil
There’s nothing like warm weather to inspire the “coleslaw” in us! This one is a yummy blend of cabbages, radishes, carrots and orange. And the perfect partner to zesty orange is basil. Basil has many health benefits to it. It has calcium and Vitamin K as well as many...
Friday Four – Summery Light Shrimp Salad – 071020
Light and fresh summer salads are what we all crave this hot and muggy time of year!
Spicy Tuesday – Cashew Ranch BBQ Dressing and Dip – Tarragon
Rich, smooth and delicious, this ranch dressing is one to “dip and dress” the summers best fresh produce. Doesn’t everyone love Ranch Dressing? We certainly do! But only when we make it ourselves because the “store-bought” brands typically have lots of unhealthy...
Friday Four – Happy 4th! Easy, Yummy Pickled Blueberry Salad – 070320
Not only is this salad pretty on the table…its OH so delicious, too!
Spicy Tuesday – Summer Berry Salad with Blueberry Balsamic Dressing – Arugula
Summer is here, and with it comes wonderful blueberries. Whether you pick them yourself, find them at the grocery store, or your farmers market, this is the season to enjoy them. We often think of these blue balls of juicy berries as just sweet – but they are awesome...
Atlanta & Co – Super Summer Salads!
Loved appearing on Atlanta & CO today to share some yummy, easy and fun summer salads - using the best of the season's produce! Here's the recipes for the two salads. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Thanks for joining me in my kitchen. If you like recipes...
Spicy Tuesday – Summer Berry Salad – Mint
Have you seen all the beautiful berries in the grocery store recently? We certainly have been taking advantage of the abundance of them, from strawberries to raspberries, blackberries to blue! Of course, its fun to enjoy them right from your hand, but this salad won’t...
Friday Four – Vidalia Onion, Corn and Tomato Summer Salad – 052920
Memorial Day kicks off the summer, and all the delicious summer produce. Here’s a way to use our Georgia Vidalia onions in an easy salad that can play a star role at dinnertime.
Spicy Tuesday – Farro Pesto Salad in a Tomato – Basil
Memorial Day kicks off the summer, and all the delicious summer produce! We are using the first tomatoes of summer to make a fun and delicious dish that is easy to make and looks impressive. We don’t often call for you to buy packaged items, but if you are pressed for...
Friday Four 051520 – Strawberry Ginger Almond Salad
Since spring is here that means so are fresh sweet strawberries – I am declaring spring Strawberry Salad season! There are so many great things you can do with strawberries and now is the perfect time to start.
Spicy Tuesday – Kale Caesar Salad with Easy Caesar Dressing – Basil
Spring is rolling in, and that means its Spring salad season! We’re sharing a traditional salad that we have changed up by using kale instead of the more traditional romaine lettuce – and we’re lightening up the dressing as well! Among the ingredients in the dressing...