Surprise your guests with unique menu options during summer grilling season

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Kath Surprise your guests with unique menu options during summer grilling season
July is National Grilling Month, and what better way to celebrate than to invite friends and family over for a low-key backyard barbecue this summer. Grilling makes food [...]

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Chicken Wild Rice Salad With Dried Fruits and Peanuts

If you are looking to cut back on heavier foods and eat more salads, this is a great recipe for you.  Do you enjoy salads but they leave you hungry (and wanting to snack!) a couple of hours after your meal?  If so, this is a perfect salad recipe for you.  It is healthy, much [...]

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Showy Bacon and Egg Layered Salad

Are you looking for a salad recipe that is quick, easy, and impressive as well as delicious?  If so, you have come to the right place!  This Bacon and Egg Layered Salad is perfect for taking to a work luncheon, church pitch-in, family reunion or holiday meal because it serves twelve.  It is also perfect [...]

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Cucumber Salad Recipes and They are Diabetic Friendly

We are all encouraged to get more vegetables into our diets. One of the easy ways to do this is with salads. Here are two different salad ideas and both feature cucumbers, one of the healthy vegetables we can eat without remorse. For those who like a crunchy salad, this Thai salad is perfect with [...]

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Favorite Summer Salad Recipes

Warm weather brings thoughts of cool food and recipes that don’t require a lot of indoor cooking. Who wants to tend a long, slow cooked meal when the sun is out and the warm weather beckons?
Here are three warm weather salads that have become some of my favorite summer salad recipes.
None of them require you [...]

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3 Great Summertime Cole Slaw Recipes

When it comes to Summertime picnics and family gatherings, I always look forward to eating some great Cole Slaw.
The word Cole Slaw (also spelled as coleslaw), basically means raw cabbage salad. It can be made from white or red cabbage. The slaw can be eaten as a side dish or as a food topping, such [...]

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Old Fashion Salad Recipes: Molded Egg Salad and Vinegar Vegetable Salad, Both Diabetic Friendly

Looking for a different idea for a luncheon salad or a salad to take to a pitch-in at work or church?  Give this old-fashion Molded Egg Salad a try.  Served on a bed of lettuce leaves with or without red ripe tomato slices, it is a colorful and tasty choice.  Serve with some whole-grain crackers [...]

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Spicing Up The Everyday Summer Garden Salad

Summer is the perfect time to have fun and get creative with salads, as they supply good nutrients without the extra-full feeling and calories. And who wants to feel stuffed on a hot summer day? Summer and salads just go well together. They also DON’T heat up your kitchen while preparing.
Garden salads are excellent appetizers [...]

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Recipes so as to spirit tickle your flavor

Eat your veggies - especially your lettuce. But don’t confine yourself to iceberg lettuce or salads! Darker greens have about the same number of calories and carbs -very low! - but pack a lot more punch in the vitamins and other nutrient categories. By substituting radicchio, watercress, escarole or spinach for the iceberg lettuce, you [...]

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Insalata Caprese - Truly Authentic Italian Food

By now you should be aware that simple food with fresh ingredients can be the best food.

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