This Roasted Spring Vegetable and Crispy Farro Salad is the ultimate way to enjoy the season's best produce. It's loaded with a colorful mix of roasted veggies like carrots, asparagus, snap peas, radishes, and more, which get an amazing caramelized flavor! Then it's tossed with nutty crispy farro, peppery arugula, tangy feta, and a herby...
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Hot German Potato Salad (Kartoffelsalat)
Hot German Potato Salad is the ultimate mayo-free side dish for any time of year. This recipe features a warm bacon vinaigrette, which coats the potatoes and soaks in as it sits for extra flavor. With bacon, onions, broth, and vinegar in the mix, there's no shortage of flavor in this potato salad. Did I...
Asian Smashed Cucumber Salad
Cool cucumbers, hot chili flakes, and a generous amount of garlic are just a few of the ingredients that make this flavor-forward, Asian-style cucumber salad so good. It's the perfect refreshing side dish, meal prep salad, or big-hit potluck contribution. Now that I've harvested the last of this year's cucumber bounty, I have to answer...
Lemony Orzo Pasta Salad
This Lemony Orzo Pasta Salad features fresh and tangy ingredients inspired by Mediterranean flavors. Feta cheese, briny kalamata olives, cucumbers, chickpeas, and more are tossed with a bright lemon vinaigrette that packs in some major deliciousness. Eat your orzo salad as-is for a satisfying side dish, or add grilled chicken for a complete meal in...
Southwestern Pasta Salad
This zesty Southwestern Pasta Salad features all the best and boldest fixings. Bacon, jalapeños, black beans, corn, and more are dressed in a creamy chipotle ranch dressing that will have your whole party lining up for second helpings. Since I saw real, live humans that I don't live with for the first time in months...
Greek Pasta Salad with Sun Dried Tomato Vinaigrette
This super easy-to-make summer side dish beats store-bought pasta salad any day. Loaded up with Mediterranean flavors, Greek Pasta Salad with Sun Dried Tomato Vinaigrette is bright, zesty, and delightfully briney. Best of all, it'll come together quicker than you can say "Opa!" If you caught my recent recipe for Warm Chorizo Potato Salad, my apologies;...
Warm Chorizo Potato Salad
With a whisper of smoke and spice, Warm Chorizo Potato Salad is a Mexican-inspired spin on the German classic. Served with soft-boiled eggs and a chorizo vinaigrette, this mayo-free mash-up is best served warm. WARM CHORIZO POTATO SALAD When most people hear "potato salad", they think of the American picnic classic. You know, potatoes,...
Charred Broccoli Salad with Hot Honey Dressing
Seared (but still crisp) broccoli forms the flavorful base of this Charred Broccoli Salad with Hot Honey Dressing. With toasted pecans, sharp red onion, crisp bacon, tangy goat cheese, dried cranberries, and a sweet-and-slightly-spicy homemade hot honey dressing, this side dish has a little bit of everything for your cookout, dinner party, or lunch box. CHARRED...
Antipasto Tortellini Pasta Salad
Everyone goes crazy over this Antipasto Tortellini Pasta Salad! It's a flavor-packed potluck favorite, and leagues better than anything you can get from the grocery store. This loaded pasta salad recipe features multiple cheeses, meats, olives, peppers, and more to create a hearty summer side dish. It'll definitely become your go-to pasta salad! I've spent...
Strawberry Avocado Spinach Salad with Greek Yogurt Poppy Seed Dressing
Something strange happened last week that I'm still trying to wrap my head around. James and I went to a cook-out where the hosts totally (and deliciously) went overboard with the food: there were sausages of every sort, kebabs piled so high on platters that it looked like they'd topple over, racks upon racks of ribs,...
Greek Avocado Salad with Garlic-Dill Vinaigrette
How many more times do you think I'm going to bundle up in my puffiest ski jacket before taking a step outside and realizing that the sinisterly frigid season is decidedly over-- not just "it's technically spring" over, but "I can go to the grocery store with a t-shirt on and survive strolling through the refrigerated section" over?
Honey Crisp Apple Salad with Cider Vinaigrette
Did you have a fun weekend? Yeah, I'm really asking-- you can tell me all about it in a comment or message me on facebook or get at me on twitter, which I am making a goal to actually use. Or we can just have a faux-convo and fake bond, whatever works for you. We've got to...
Southwestern Chicken Cobb Salad with Jalapeño Buttermilk Ranch
There are two types of salads in the world, you know. Some are simple, light, and healthy. They're sort that are loaded up with greens and drizzled with a light vinaigrette; the sort that leaves you the tiniest bit hungry, but in a good way; the sort that you eat at the end of the...
Cornbread Salad with Jalapeño-Browned Butter Vinaigrette
Usually when I hear the words "cornbread" and "dressing" together, I have Thanksgiving flashbacks. But not today. Today, I'm having flashbacks to a weekend barbecue when I served up some Cornbread Salad with Jalapeño-Browned Butter Vinaigrette, which-- with its ton of toasty sweet cornbread, creamy avocado, melted cheddar cheese, fresh corn, juicy popped tomatoes, and sweet,...
Smoky Shrimp Pasta Salad with Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette
This Smoky Shrimp Pasta Salad with Chipotle Dressing is about to make a lot of people reaaaal popular this summer.
Indian Spiced Rice & Lentil Salad
Last year, I discovered that rice salad was an amazingly wonderful thing. It's replaced pasta salad as my favorite binge-on-at-barbecues-until-the-shame-kicks-in dish. Actually, being perfectly honest, shame doesn't even stop me most of the time. I will eat rice salad until I can't physically get up to get more. You think I'm exaggerating, don't you? It...
Cuban Caesar Salad
Do you have one classic dish that you simply can't get enough of? One that you will order, without fail, every time you go out? If so, welcome to the club. James and I have eaten Caesar Salad at least once a week for the past... I don't know... two years? Yeah, I'm serious. In fact,...
Easy Greek Tzatziki Chicken Salad
Is it too late for me to start working on getting a bikini bod in time for summer? Yes? Probably? But I mean I have this Easy Greek Tzatziki Chicken Salad, and that has to count for something. You see, this spin on chicken salad fulfills some pretty difficult criteria: it's healthy, it's simple, and it...
Warm Brussels Sprouts and Kale Bacon Caesar Salad
Last night I went to the Vendor Summit for Kitchen Kapers, so I'm in an especially good mood today. If you've ever seen "Oprah's Favorite Things", then imagine that, just with kitchenware. Instead of cars, it's like "YOU GET A VEGETABLE PEELER, YOU GET A VEGETABLE PEELER, EVERYBODY GETS A VEGETABLE PEELER!" It actually is...
Fig, Blue Cheese, and Walnut Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing
I'm getting panicky because fig season is almost over and that means that I'm not going to be able to make my absolute favorite salad again for another 8 months. Even worse, I nearly didn't have enough time to share the recipe for Fig, Blue Cheese, and Walnut Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing with you, and now...
Creamy Pesto Pasta Salad
This Creamy Pesto Pasta Salad is everything you always wished your cookout side dish could be. It's loaded up with flavorful ingredients like sun-dried tomatoes, peppery arugula, and fresh mozzarella balls, and tossed in a creamy pesto dressing that will make your mouth water just thinking about it. I first made this recipe as a...
Roasted Red Pepper Salad
While nearly everyone I know is lamenting "the end of summer", I've got to tell you, I'm pretty excited. Not because I'm glad that weather no longer permits us to float in the pool, drink in hand, and take in all of the sunshine, but because we're moving away from hot and humid weather into...
(Esquites) Mexican Street Corn Salad
It's likely that I've been staring at an empty blog post box for an hour or so now. I can't be sure. It's almost 9PM [Edit: 11PM], and I'm absolutely out of it, guys. I really hate to be a complainer, but yesterday's hopefulness for better luck in May has disintegrated. Sunday was the car break-in....
Omi's Wurstsalat (German Bologna Salad)
"Let's make Wurstsalat," my Omi (German for Grandma) said through her thick accent over the phone, as we tried to decide what we would cook together when she visited. "Okay, what's in that?" I asked her. Wurst is German for sausage, and salat, obviously, for salad. I was expecting a big bowl of bratwurst with...
Mango and Blue Cheese Salad
“This piece is ugly. Eat it,” my boyfriend demanded as he cut up a fresh mango for me. “I don’t like mangoes,” I told him, and the ugly piece was offered to guests at my house until finally someone eagerly accepted—the only person who liked mangoes at all. Why was I adding mango to a...
Green Goddess Dressing
Bright and herbaceous Green Goddess Dressing is a tangy, creamy dream! Brimming with fresh basil, dill, and parsley (or whichever tender herbs you need to use up), this dressing is bursting with vibrant flavor. Use it on salads, drizzle it over proteins, dunk your veggies in it, or pour it over all your favorite dishes....
How To Make Balsamic Glaze
Homemade balsamic glaze is the easiest way to take all of your dishes to the next level-- and if you can boil water, you can make it. This rich, syrupy sauce highlights the complex sweet and sour flavors of good balsamic vinegar. Drizzle it over everything from steak to strawberries for an instant flavor boost!...
How To Pit Cherries
Is a recipe chock full of fresh cherries calling your name? Here's how to pit cherries without the fuss (or cherry pitter)! You're going to be using these methods all cherry season long. Sweet, tart, juicy cherries are way up there on my list of favorite fruits. But if I'm honest, there is one thing...
How To Make Roasted Garlic
Roasted Garlic is the slightly sweet, deeply-flavored, creamy and spreadable upgrade to your typical minced garlic. Learn how to easily roast entire heads in the oven, and then eat the cloves whole (seriously!), spread them on crostini, or mix them into your favorite weeknight dinner for a major boost of flavor. What is Roasted Garlic?...
Upside-Down Onion and Gruyere Tarts
Upside-Down Tarts are taking the internet by storm, and for good reason. Just place your favorite fillings on a baking sheet, top with puff pastry, and bake 'til golden for the perfect party treats. Most often, you'll see tarts made this way using sweet ingredients like sliced fruit, but this version uses thinly sliced onion...
Homemade Hot Honey Recipe
Say hello to your new favorite flavor-booster: Hot Honey. This simple, 4-ingredient recipe takes no time to make, is fully customizable to your preferred heat level, and can be drizzled on everything from pizza to fried chicken. Soon you'll be swapping out all of your old peppery sauces for this sweet, spicy, and just slightly...
Easy Candied Pecans (10-Minute Stovetop Recipe)
It takes less than 10 minutes to make delicious candied pecans thanks to a simple stovetop shortcut. Use this versatile glazed pecan recipe in salads, cheese boards, baked goods, and more. CANDIED PECANS IN JUST 10 MINUTES The simplest tip I have for making everything taste better - especially throughout the holiday season - is...
One Pot Creamy Hummus Pasta
This One Pot Creamy Hummus Pasta takes only a few simple ingredients, one pot, and 20 minutes to prepare! The instant silky sauce is so satisfying and full of flavor, you'll have a hard time believing you whipped it up yourself. As someone who must, at all times, have a gargantuan tub of hummus within...
No-Knead Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia
This EASY No-Knead Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia is all about letting time do all of the hard work for you. With just 20 minutes of easy active prep time, you can make an amazingly chewy, creamy garlic-studded, crisp-crusted, tender bread. Who knew that the key to the tastiest bread you've ever sunken your teeth into...
Garlic Confit (and Homemade Garlic Oil)
Garlic lovers rejoice: You can make homemade garlic confit and garlic oil with only a few minutes of prep time. Slowly roasting garlic cloves in olive oil allows them to become mild, caramelized, and tender enough to spread with a butter knife. WHAT IS GARLIC CONFIT? The term "confit" (pronounced con-fee) is used to describe food...
Foolproof Ricotta Gnocchi (Gnudi)
Did you know that you can make tender, restaurant-quality gnocchi at home in less time than it'd take for takeout to arrive? It's almost unbelievable that something as tasty and impressive as this ricotta gnocchi recipe could be so easy to make from scratch, but the ricotta base makes it foolproof, even for novice cooks....
Pretzel Crusted Chicken with Honey Mustard Sauce
Pretzel crumbs are the key to crispy, crunchy chicken cutlets that everyone will love. The homemade honey mustard sauce makes this Pretzel Crusted Chicken recipe even tastier. If breaded chicken cutlets didn't already resemble grown-up chicken nuggets enough, a big bag of Rold Golds is here to double-down on your childhood dinner fantasies. I'm talking...
Homemade Pita Chips
Learn how to make pita chips that crisp, golden brown, and delicious! These baked pita chips make tasty snacks on their own, or are fantastic for dunking in dips like hummus. I'll teach you how to make 4 varieties: Sea Salt, Garlic & Herb, Za'atar Seasoned, and Cinnamon Sugar! QUICK, EASY & DELICIOUS HOMEMADE PITA...
Oven Roasted Red Potatoes
These easy-to-make Oven Roasted Red Potatoes are tossed with garlic, herbs, and parmesan cheese, and then baked until beautifully golden and crisp. Serve them as-is. or finish with butter and extra fresh parsley for a truly decadent and drooled-over side dish. I'm not going to tell you that these are the perfect potatoes. Because in...
Pesto Pasta
Pesto Pasta is one of those restaurant-worthy recipes that couldn't be faster or easier to whip up at home. But it also takes a tiny bit of know-how to do it the right way. Learn how to get the perfect coating of pesto to cling to your pasta without resorting to excessive amounts of oil...