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salads
easy italian pasta salad
pasta, beautiful pasta. we've been eating a lot of it recently. pasta is is a good way to keep everything affordable, it keeps for a long time in the pantry, and it's great for holding so many amazing and varying flavors. it's also filling, and my kids love all the different shapes and colors we ...
chicken pasta salad
if there are two things that are always a hit in my house, they are chicken and pasta. they seem to go hand in hand. and what better and easier way to put them together than to combine them in a salad? here are just a few of our favorite favorite ways to combine chicken and pasta into yummy salads ...
southwestern couscous salad :: with homemade dressing
i love a good summer salad. this southwestern couscous salad is great for summer because it uses a lot of fresh ingredients and is a cold salad which makes it so refreshing in the summer heat and goes great with other summer favorites like barbecue! it's also a cinch to put together - with ...
summer potato salad
summer is my favorite season. it's hot out, we can wear flip-flops, and we get to eat all the amazing outdoor summer food we want (right?!). this is one of our favorite potato salad recipes. i always make it on a summer holiday like memorial day or the 4th of july because it goes along so great ...
summer favorite :: 7-layer salad
with memorial day weekend quickly approaching, i've been pulling out all my salad recipes and am reminded of all the great ones i have! and while a 7-layer salad is something that most people have probably either made or eaten before, it's definitely one worth keeping around because a) it looks so ...
homemade asian chicken salad with sesame dressing
i grew up in a pretty multi-cultural area. there were lots of different ethnic restaurants around...egyptian, korean, greek, italian, indian, you name it. there was a particular chinese restaurant that my family really liked and we'd frequently go there for lunch or order take-out for dinner and i ...
strawberry spinach salad with strawberry poppy seed dressing
this strawberry spinach salad is sooo, sooo good. the strawberries and spinach make it taste really fresh while the candied almonds and strawberry poppy seed dressing sweeten it up just a bit. not to mention it's really pretty and really easy to put together. all you need are strawberries, baby ...
Fall Flavors :: Tuscan Bean Soup & Apple Chicken Salad
In case nobody else has noticed - though I'm sure you most certainly have - fall is in full swing! Nighttime is coming faster each and every day, the weather outside is getting much cooler, and everyone seems to be feeling a little bit more blase than usual - but not in our house! Well, not at ...
chicken & wild rice wraps
this is one of those dinners you make when you've had a busy day and are quickly running out of time to get some good food in all those hungry mouths. you can use any leftover or rotisserie chicken - that makes it even faster! besides that, just cook up some rice, chop some lettuce, grab your ...