Summer Garden Green Goddess Salad

Summer Garden Green Goddess Salad

Your new go-to summer garden green goddess salad. Fresh butter lettuce, snap peas, radishes, cucumbers, scallions, cherries, and torn croutons. All combined with a vibrant green goddess dressing. It’s refreshing and simple. Just the perfect salad to add on to any summer menu.

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Grilled Chicken with Garden Panzanella

Grilled Chicken with Garden Panzanella

A simple summer chicken recipe to easily whip up any night of the week when you’re craving something light and healthy: grilled chicken with garden panzanella. The chicken is marinated in a simple mix of olive oil, lemon, and garlic…then grilled until charred and juicy. Served with a panzanella salad full of garden vegetables, charred bread, vinegar, and basil. It’s one of those recipes you can make over and over again all summer long.

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Grilled Romaine Salad with Caramelized Shallot Vinaigrette

Grilled Romaine Salad with Caramelized Shallot Vinaigrette

A fun twist on your everyday salad: grilled romaine salad with caramelized shallot vinaigrette. Inspired by the flavors that typically accompany a grilled steak, this salad is definitely on the indulgent side. Smoky grilled romaine, fresh arugula, crispy bacon, tangy blue cheese, pan-fried pecans, and a sweet shallot vinaigrette. It’s a bold salad that is perfect for a special occasion.

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Spicy Grilled Shrimp Salad

Spicy Grilled Shrimp Salad with Jalapeño Lime Vinaigrette

A spicy grilled shrimp salad to bring some fun, fiery flavor to your kitchen this summer! Juicy, spiced shrimp grilled until charred and tender, mixed with sweet grilled pineapple, arugula, creamy avocado, shaved radishes, cherry tomatoes, and fresh basil. Everything is drizzled with a charred jalapeño lime vinaigrette. It’s summer in a bowl with a little kick and lots of fresh ingredients.

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Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Salad

Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Salad with Chimichurri Vinaigrette

Sharing a loaded mediterranean grilled chicken salad today. It’s the kind of salad that’s without a doubt a complete meal – full of grilled & fresh vegetables, hearty bulgur, spiced chickpeas, cucumbers, feta cheese, olives, and walnuts. Everything’s tossed with a vibrant chimichurri vinaigrette for a final pop of flavor. This is definitely the kind of salad you can prep one day and mix up all week long.

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Busia's Sour Cream Cucumbers

Family Classics: Busia’s Sour Cream Cucumbers

Sharing my grandma’s sour cream cucumbers today, the easiest side dish that we grew up eating with all of her spring and summer meals. It’s a fresh cucumber “salad” with scallions and chives, seasoned well with salt & freshly cracked black pepper, and marinated in tangy sour cream.

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Roasted Potato Salad

Roasted Potato Salad with Pistachio Orange Vinaigrette

My new go-to spring side dish: roasted potato salad. It combines crispy potatoes, greens, caramelized spring onions, fresh asparagus, shaved radishes, goat cheese, and fresh herbs with a really vibrant, tangy pistachio orange vinaigrette. It’s an all-in-one type of dish that can be served simply with a main course or added to a larger spring spread.

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Arugula Salad

Arugula Salad with Harissa Chickpeas & Pomegranate Vinaigrette

There are SO many good things I have to say about this arugula salad. It’s intriguing and quite unique – full of shaved fennel and celery, sharp crumbles of manchego cheese, briny olives, a sweet pomegranate vinaigrette, and a wildly delicious mixture of harissa-spiced chickpeas + pecans + juicy golden raisins. It’s got a middle eastern vibe and is perfect for any dinner party or meal at home.

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Steak & Egg Salad

Steak & Egg Salad with Caper Vinaigrette

Sharing a very flavorful steak & egg salad with caper vinaigrette today. I’d call this my go-to lunch entree salad. Perfect for entertaining or making for a simple weekend lunch with family. It’s hearty and satisfying, made with seared steak and hard-boiled eggs. Tossed with feta, garlicky roasted tomatoes, radishes, dill, and a tangy caper vinaigrette.

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Chicken Salad

Everyday Roasted Red Pepper & Chicken Salad

Sharing a fresh new salad for our January healthy kick! It’s my everyday roasted red pepper & chicken salad with crunchy fennel, watermelon radish, briny olives, roasted walnuts, fresh chives + oregano, and tossed in a simple dijon vinaigrette. It’s a salad you can make for a crowd, or prep all of the ingredients and eat a few salads yourself all week long. It’s also really simple to make and one of the tastiest combinations.

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