These Strawberry Avocado Mint Salad Spring Rolls are great for serving a portable salad at a picnic or party! (Or just noshing on for lunch!) Last week I shared my Fig and Pig Flatbread and talked about the foodie picnic I put together with my friend Meghan from Cake n' Knife. This week I want to share my favorite new way to chow down on a salad - spring rolls! You may have seen these rice ...
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5 Allergy-friendly Potluck Themes for Your Next Get-together // Simple Hospitality
These 5 Allergy-friendly Potluck Themes are sure to be a hit the next time you have friends over for a meal! Welcome to the first post in a new series I'm doing called Simple Hospitality! In a Pinterest-filled world it's easy to think you have to go overboard and become Martha Stewart in order to have people over to spend time with you in your home. That is definitely not the case! ...
20 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes + Meal Plan Monday Week 26
Today I'm bringing you a roundup of 20 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes along with today's Meal Plan Monday! (Pictured clockwise: Herb and Yogurt dressing - Lauren Caris Cooks, Poppyseed Dressing -The Kitchen McCabe, Pomegranate Dressing - Feast + West, Beet Basil Pesto - Sustaining the Powers, Red Wine Peach Vinaigrette - Dine and Dish. See links below.) This summer I've been ...
Roasted Beet Salad With Goat Cheese and Beet Pesto Vinaigrette + Meal Plan Monday #2
Roasted Beet Salad: Sweet Roasted Beets, Creamy Goat Cheese, Toasted Pine Nuts, and a Beet Basil Pesto Vinaigrette + Meal Plan Monday #2 You know how much I love recreating recipes I've tried in restaurants. This recipe comes at the request of my hubby. It's a recreation of a dish from an incredible local restaurant called Root Down that's in both the Denver Airport and downtown. There are ...
Mexican Corn Salad (Esquites)
A hot, cheesy Mexican Corn Salad adapted from the popular Mexican street corn, elote. A few weeks ago I got stuck without eggs and made a run to our closest grocery store. I typically avoid this particular because their prices are crazy and they only have what I need half the time. It happened to be a Friday when they were running one of their TGIF specials and corn on the cob was 10 ...
Jicama Strawberry Summer Salad
Crunchy, raw jicama and fresh strawberries take center stage in this bright Jicama Strawberry Summer Salad. Last week I shared about how to buy, prepare, and roast a jicama into my favorite Jicama Fries with Balsamic Ketchup. The jicama I found in Denver are ENORMOUS, so this week, I wanted to share this recipe for a jicama strawberry salad you can make with all the leftover jicama. Now ...
Carrot and Raisin Salad
Every Sunday in our house involves zombies. A while ago, we invited a couple friends over for dinner and to watch the Walking Dead on a Sunday night. The simple "post-apocalypse potluck" meal of whatever we had leftover in the fridge has now morphed into a weekly Sunday night event with 8-10 people over for dinner and a watch party each week. We watch it like many people watch football- ...