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Chopped Salad with Homemade Jalpeño-Ranch Dressing

This Chopped Salad with Homemade Jalapeño-Ranch Dressing is easy and delicious. The creamy jalapeño-ranch dressing packs a flavor punch. Yum!!! The flavors are a little bit Mexican, because in addition to the Romaine lettuce, it’s filled with avocados, tomatoes, fresh corn, cilantro, Cotija cheese, and crushed sea salt and lime tortilla chips. Homemade Jalapeño-Ranch Dressing …

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Broccoli Salad with Grapes, Pecans, Cheddar, and Warm Bacon Vinaigrette

Broccoli Salad is nothing new, but this one has grapes, toasted pecans, bacon, white cheddar and a warm bacon vinaigrette. SO GOOD that if you’re like me,  you’re going to want to eat the whole bowl yourself! It’s the perfect side dish for grilling. I can’t wait till you try this recipe: your friends and …

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World’s Best and Easiest Coleslaw with Homemade Vinaigrette

 This, the World’s Best Coleslaw Recipe, is for all my friends out there who call themselves as “Bad Cooks”.   I feel your pain. I do. I once despaired of ever being as good a cook as my mama.  It is also for all my friends out there who think of themselves as “Coleslaw Haters“. …

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Mango, Feta, and Honey Toasted Almond Salad Recipe

This recipe for Mango, Feta, and Honey-Toasted Almond Salad is the perfect salad to accompany this  easy summer grilling menu: Grilled Pork Tenderloin, Cardamom-Cilantro Lime Rice, and salad. An Easy Summer Grilling Menu Our Memorial Day weekend plans are typically pretty low key: it’s often just the fam, hanging out at home, grilling and chilling. …

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Avocado and Crabmeat Mimosa: a 60’s Retro-Recipe

This Retro 60’s Appetizer/Salad, the Avocado and Crabmeat Mimosa, is a seriously yummy way to to enjoy canned lump crab meat, or fresh crab meat, if you’ve got the budget for it. And I know a secret tip I’ll share with you, that will eliminate the strong fishy smell you often find in canned lump …

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Farmers Market Salad with Spiced Goat Cheese Medallions

Farmers Market Salad with Spiced Goat Cheese Medallions is a beautiful composed salad, that makes the best of all that great summer produce that’s available. All summer long, I have been reaping the benefits of someone else’s labor, and loving every minute of it, especially with recipes like this one. I refer to the glorious …

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The Salad to Bring When They Ask You To Bring a Salad

This recipe for The Salad to Bring When They Ask You to Bring a Salad is the answer to your problem, when you’ve been invited over for a meal. Just Bring A Salad You offer to bring “something to go with the meal” when you’ve been invited over for dinner, and the host says, “Oh…just …

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Salad with Navy Beans, Goat Cheese, Cherry Tomatoes, Croutons, and Warm Bacon Dressing

My Salad with Navy Beans, Goat Cheese, Grape Tomatoes and Warm Bacon Vinaigrette is a light summer dinner recipe. It’s more of a meal than a salad. After all, in the dog days of summer, isn’t it wonderful to have a nice, cool salad for dinner sometimes? This one’s so good, you’l want to enjoy …

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Aztec Salad: Repentance Never Tasted So Good

Aztec Salad is the perfect side dish for grilling out, or a light, tasty, healthy vegan lunch. This salad packs plenty of protein, in a no-fat dressing. I thought that after my last HORRIBLY NAUGHTY post, the one on Chocolate Sour Cream Pound Cake with Raspberry Sauce, that a season of contrition, nay – repentance …

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Pioneer Woman’s Spicy Pasta Salad with Smoked Gouda, Tomatoes and Basil

Spicy Pasta Salad with Smoked Gouda, Tomatoes and Basil is the perfect side dish for almost anything you’re grilling!    Recipes for Grill Week Welcome back to Grill Week in the Boonies. I have another fantastic side dish, Spicy Pasta Salad with Smoked Gouda, Tomatoes, and Basil that I’ve discovered this summer, that I think …

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Grilled Mango and Blue Cheese Salad and the Art of Balancing Flavors

This Grilled Mango and Blue Cheese Salad is a great salad to make when you’re grilling out. You can grill the mango right before or after you grill your protein. Just takes a moment to get that beautiful caramelization! And I love a great salad! (Especially if someone else is doing all the washing and …

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Easy Cranberry-Orange-Apple-Walnut Relish

Refreshing and palate-pleasing, a bite of Easy Cranberry Orange Apple Walnut Relish is the divine soulmate to a bite of turkey. It’s also the perfect foil to so many of the *heavy* fat-laden dishes, that cause our heavily-laden Thanksgiving tables to groan under the weight thereof. An additional reason I adore this dish is because …

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Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon

This Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon is the perfect salad for Thanksgiving. Apples, pears, grapes, salad greens, with Maple Pecan Bacon, drizzled with a cranberry vinaigrette! How I Discovered This Apple-Pear Salad I went to a slumber party with my wonderful girlfriends, and came home with the salad of my dreams: Apple-Pear Salad with …

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