How To Make A Proper Salad

A chopped salad in a bowl filled with colorful vegetables

Learn how to make a proper salad! This guide goes over all the components of a great salad and offers recipes for you to try yourself! Season For Salad In my opinion, a salad isn’t a seasonal dish. It evolves with the changing weather, ingredient availability, and flavor cravings that each season brings. It can be cool and crisp, warm and indulgent, or satisfying andRead more ->

Peach and Goat Cheese Salad with Walnuts

Two plates of salad topped with peaches, goat cheese, and walnuts

This Peach and Goat Cheese Salad with Walnuts is the perfect combination of sweet and savory. Juicy peaches and tangy goat cheese combine in this mouthwatering salad. This Salad’s A Peach Sweet, sweet summertime. Markets are brimming with fresh fruit and vegetables, best enjoyed as quickly after they’re picked as possible. There are so many wonderful ways to prepare all this fresh produce, but oneRead more ->

Southwest Quinoa Salad with Pickled Jalapeño Tahini Dressing

A Southwest salad topped with quinoa, tomatoes, black beans, avocado, cilantro, and red pepper

This Southwest Quinoa Salad with Pickled Jalapeno Tahini Dressing is flavor overload! Quinoa, fresh tomatoes, avocado, cilantro, and cotija cheese top a bed of greens and is drizzled with a spicy and tangy pickled jalapeno tahini dressing. Lunchtime With A Kick This salad is the exact thing I make when I’m craving something lean but satisfying and spicy but flavorful. It’s a complete meal filledRead more ->

Antipasto Salad with Pepperoncini Vinaigrette

This Antipasto Salad with Pepperoncini Vinaigrette packs major flavor! All the deliciousness of an antipasto platter on top of a salad and drizzled with a zesty pepperoncini vinaigrette! Antipasto, In Salad Form! There’s nothing I love more than a solid antipasto platter. Cured meats, cheeses, pickled things: it all speaks to my heart (and stomach!) in a very special way. However, eating a platter ofRead more ->

13 Zucchini Recipes To Make This Summer!

Multiple zucchini on a cutting board

13 recipes to try with all that summer zucchini! Casserole, bread, zoodles, and skewers: this collection has a variety of delicious dishes! It’s Zucchini Season As summer makes its slow departure, one thing’s certain: it’s prime zucchini season. Markets and gardens are practically bursting with the summer squash, with shoppers happily toting their summer produce home to enjoy. But one question lingers as we enter thisRead more ->

Grilled Zucchini, Halloumi, and Prosciutto Skewers

Grilled Zucchini, Halloumi, and Prosciutto Skewers on a platter

These Grilled Zucchini, Halloumi, and Prosciutto Skewers are the perfect tasty nibble. Marinated zucchini is grilled until tender along with salty halloumi cheese. Both are threaded with prosciutto and served as a delicious appetizer. If I had it my way, most meals would be served as appetizers. There’s nothing I love more than having a bite of this, and a nibble of that. Variety isRead more ->

Herbed Zucchini Rollups with Marinara

A pan of herbed zucchini roll ups with marinara

These Herbed Zucchini Rollups with Marinara are a delicious vegetarian meal! Zucchini is thinly sliced and rolled up with an herbed ricotta and mozzarella mixture and cooks directly in zesty marinara sauce. A Beautiful Summer Meal When I want a comforting but light meal during the summer, I normally opt for dishes where vegetables take center stage. These Herbed Zucchini Rollups with Marinara are theRead more ->

Zucchini Casserole

A spoon dishing up zucchini casserole

The perfect recipe for all that summer squash, Zucchini Casserole is a family favorite! Tender and creamy, this lightened-up version includes homemade condensed soup mix. The best summer side dish! Zucchini Casserole: A Favorite! Here are few dishes out there that elicit nostalgia as much as zucchini casserole does. Growing up this mouthwatering side dish adorned plates alongside ribs, chicken, steak, burgers, and the like.Read more ->

Moroccan Salad with Curry Lime Vinaigrette

A morroccan salad topped with colorful vegetables and ingredients

This Moroccan Salad with Curry Lime Vinaigrette is outrageously flavorful and packed with feel-good ingredients. Kale, grapes, saffron pearl couscous, carrot, and cilantro all contribute to this delicious salad! A Lunchtime Favorite Alright, everyone. Today’s recipe is a special one. When I worked downtown Minneapolis regularly (as opposed to my current state, working remotely), the lunch rush was real. In Minneapolis everything is connected byRead more ->

Fresh Blender Salsa

A bowl of homemade fresh blender salsa

This Fresh Blender Salsa is simple to make and easier to devour! Fresh summer vegetables are blended into a lightly textured dip, perfect for tortilla chips. You Dip, I Dip, We Dip If there is one universally pleasing snack, what is it other than chips and salsa?! Salty, tangy, spicy: the perfect trio. There are endless options out there when it comes to the jarredRead more ->