Blue Ribbon Summer Recipes

From summer side dishes to healthy salads and more, stay cool with light and easy summer recipes!

Yummy Fruit Salad Dressing poured over fruit when serving.

Yummy Fruit Salad Dressing

My grandchildren love a fruit salad, yummy yummy, and this dressing is simply marvelous.

A bowl of Asian Chicken Pasta Salad.

Asian Chicken Pasta Salad

Great to make ahead on busy days when everyone has a different dinner schedule!

Nana's Melt In Your Mouth Blueberry Cake on a cake plate.

Nana's Melt In Your Mouth Blueberry Cake

This recipe was handed down by my grandmother, and it is the absolute best blueberry ...

Zucchini Casserole baked until golden brown.

Zucchini Casserole

For those with a garden, you probably have a ton of zucchini from your harvests. ...

Marinade for Smoked Sausage Kabobs.

Marinade for Smoked Sausage Kabobs

This marinade is great for any kind of kabob. I use sausage with onion, pineapple, ...

A platter of Zucchini Fries with pizza sauce.

Zucchini Fries

This recipe is a great way to get the kids to eat their vegetables because ...

Small bowls of Cottage Cheese Jell-O Salad with pineapple and a cherry on top.

Cottage Cheese Jell-o Salad

Wow, talk about an easy salad to make this is it! Now, my Grammie didn't ...

A slice of Death By Chocolate Ice Cream Cake on a plate.

Death By Chocolate Ice Cream Cake

This wonderfully sinful luscious cake was created for my 13 year old daughter's birthday. She ...

A bowl of Grilled Potatoes.

Grilled Potatoes

These potatoes are so easy to make and delicious! The secret is to microwave them ...

Cold Spaghetti Salad ready to serve.

Cold Spaghetti Salad

You can add black olives, you can add pepperoni, or also change to bowtie pasta... ...

A bowl of Easy Cowboy Caviar.

Easy Cowboy Caviar

I changed the typical Cowboy Caviar to make it a quick and easy appetizer. Chop ...

Grilled Pork Tenderloin With Blueberry Sauce on a platter.

Grilled Pork Tenderloin With Blueberry Sauce

This is an unusual but attractive pork tenderloin recipe.

Homemade Peach Cobbler in a bowl with ice cream.

Homemade Peach Cobbler

I love a nice and juicy peach cobbler with some good crust on top and ...

Blue Ribbon Red Potato Salad in a serving bowl.

Blue Ribbon Red Potato Salad

I came across a red potato salad recipe about 8 years ago. Since that time, ...

Platters of Honey-Glazed Chicken Thighs.

Honey-Glazed Grilled Chicken Thighs

This was great. We all loved it and will make it again. We used skin ...

Pasta Salad for Leanne in a serving bowl.

Pasta Salad for Leanne

My niece always makes a request for my pasta salad and it has become a ...

Broccoli Salad for your next cookout.

Broccoli Salad

We make this a lot for summer BBQs, but it's good any time of the ...

Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch Pasta Salad in a serving bowl.

Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch Pasta Salad

This is a pasta salad I have been making for at least 15 years. So ...

Fettuccine Chicken & Tomato Dinner on a plate with bread.

Fettuccine Chicken & Tomato Dinner

Made this recipe from what I had in my fridge and pantry. Very good, ...

A platter of Mom Josette's Corn Fritters.

Mom Josette's Corn Fritters

Serve with warm maple syrup, sour cream, or my favorite, applesauce. You can make them ...

Bacon Onion Tomato Pie ready to be sliced.

Bacon Onion Tomato Pie

It may sound strange, but believe me it is to die for!

A big bowl of Mama's Old-Fashioned Potato Salad.

Mama's Old-Fashioned Potato Salad - Dee Dee's

This is the way my mother and my grandmother always made their potato salad. A ...

Strawberry Fields Salad With Poppy Seed Dressing.

Strawberry Fields Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing and Candied Pecans

This salad is out of this world! It satisfies all your tastes... sweet, sour, salty, ...

Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes in a small dish.

Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes

My granddaughter loves these. The red cherry tomatoes are good, but the little yellow tomatoes ...

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