Summer Recipes

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

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 ...

A platter of Simple Italian Shrimp.

Simple Italian Shrimp

This Italian shrimp recipe was sent to me by Linda. She also furnished the picture. ...

Sauteed Garlic Green Beans ready to serve.

Sauteed Garlic Green Beans

We grow Italian green beans each year and I love to saute them in a ...

Bruschetta & Cheese in a bowl to serve.

Bruschetta & Cheese

This is best made with New Jersey tomatoes. I live in NJ's sister state, Pennsylvania. ...

Cobb Potato Salad ready to serve.

Cobb Potato Salad

I have been making potato salad for years. The dressing has always been the same... ...

The Best Glazed Fruit Salad ready to be served.

The BEST Glazed Fruit Salad!

I found this recipe in a 1950s magazine. I tweaked it by adding orange marmalade, ...

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